Siddhanta Mahapatra
Siddhanta Mahapatra (born 4 May 1966) and known professionally as Sidhu/Muna bhai, is an Indian actor, producer and Film distributor, who works predominantly in Odia, Tollywood, and Tamil cinema. Referred to worldwide by his fans as "Dynamic Superstar" for his roles in action films, Siddhanta has acted in more than 180 movies with most of them (160) being lead roles. He is the only actor to win 7 Odisha State Film Awards back-to-back, during 2000–2006, including five Filmfare Awards East awards, and the only actor to win National Award For Best Actor in a Negative  Role for 2010, in "Swayamsiddha". He is one of the few actors to attract a fan following from multiple states of India. He has produced and distributed 100 movies under his venture Omm Divya Vision Home Motion Picture, which was founded in 1992, in association with Divya Bharti. Early life. Siddhanta was born to a Brahmin family in Brahmapur, Odisha. He completed his elementary schooling at St. Vincent's Convent School, Berhampur, and his higher secondary education at D.D.College, Keonjhar. He pursued an undergraduate program in commerce at Rairangpur College, Mayurbhanj. He then received his master's degree from the  Institute of Marketing and Management Delhi.Both his father Dr.Manmohan Mohapatra and mother are doctors. He married former actress Mama Mishra, and has a daughter, Saisiddhi Mahapatra and son Saisamarth Mahapatra. Career. Acting. In 1988 Siddhanta started his career with several regional Sambalpuri, Odia, Santali albums, serials, and movies. By 1990 he performed lead and supporting roles in several Tamil and Telugu movies. His first lead role in a Odia film came in 1992 at the age of 27, in "Shradhanjali". Siddhanta is best known for his experiments in movies and high quality Vfx in low budget trend in  Odia cinema in "Kandei Akhire Luha" (1996). He experimented in showing a severed hand in "Rakhi bandhili mo rakhiba mana" (2000), which was completely new to Oriya films then. The movie "Rahichi rahibi tori payeen" (2003) showed 100 scorpions, which was again the products of computer graphics. Then, in "Dharmara Heba Jaya" (2005) and "Tate mo Rana" (2006), he established his action star image with the two most iconic film of his career. In "Dharamara Heba Jaya", Siddhanta portrayed a blind man, while in "Tate mo Rana" he portrayed the character of a soul which comes back after death. In  both these films his performances were experimental. Politics. He joined Biju Janata Dal in 2009 and contested as MP from Berhampur constituency in the 2009 "15th Lok Sabha" election, which he won. He won reelection in the 2014 general election by a margin of nearly 100,000 votes amidst stiff competition from UPA and NDA candidates. However he lost his third bid. Awards. Best Actor Odisha State Film Awards 2000- Sindura Nuhe Khela Ghara 2001- Mo Kola To Jhulana 2002- Pua Mora Jagatjita 2003- Aethi Swarga Aithi Narka 2004- Omm Shanti Omm 2005- Shaashu Ghara Chaalijibi 2006- Tote Mo Rana 2011-  Eka Ekaa-Meandering Reflections