A still from Sebabou

Paradip, Feb. 20: Well-known Odia sound recordist in Bollywood, Subhash Sahoo, has embarked on a project to showcase his love and respect towards his mother through a documentary film.

The 48-year-old National Award winning sound recordist from the sleepy Arjabaluria village under Pattamundai block in Kendrapara district has come up with the half-an-hour documentary film Sebabou on his 85-year-old mother Sachitra, who lives in the ancestral village.

Sahoo, who has to his credit two national awards for audiography of Omkara and Kaminey, said the film was his gift to his mother.

“Her warmth and caring guidance was a contributing factor to whatever success that I have achieved so far,” Sahoo said.

With over 50 films to his name as the sound recordist, including many in Marathi and Odia apart from Bollywood movies, he has also directed a couple of documentaries under his production house Time and Space Pictures.

Green Summer, that he made for United Nations Development Programme was based on the food problem in Kalahandi Balangir Koraput districts of the state.

Sahoo’s mother is the central character of documentary Sebabou. It tries to portray the bond between a mother and the village girls. As the name of his eldest sister is Seba, everybody addresses her as Sebabou (Seba’s mother).

It is a typical cultural trait in village life. People often address a woman affixing the name of her eldest child.