Sriram Panda


Sriram Panda is an Indian monk and former Odia movie actor, director and a screenplay writer hailing from the Nabarangpur district, Odisha, India. He left the film industry in 1992.

Life and career

Sriram Panda started his film career in Dhir Biswal's Dharitri directed by Nitai Palit in 1972, which was a great success at that time. He emerged as a popular film star of Odisha in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1992, at the peak of his career, he quit the film industry to join the Bihar School of Yoga at Munger, Bihar, India as a Yoga preacher and renamed himself as Swami Nitya Chaitanya.
He has written, directed, and produced the movie Kurukshetra.

Awards and accreditation

During his 20-year career, he got several state-level awards and accreditations from the media and Odia cine public at large.

Filmography