Without an iota of doubt the most talented, versatile, prolific, ahead of his time, flamboyant Odia music director has been Akshay Mohanty aka #KhokaBhai. Perhaps he was too good for the cesspool of mediocrity that Odia film and music industry ultimately became. #AkshayaMohanty

Perhaps he was too erudite for the lot around him. From what can gather, he read voraciously, read authoritative works, had a pulse on world cinema, was fascinated with music tech in 70s, 80s; all of it a huge misfit in Cuttack of that era (even now). #KhokaBhai #AkshayaMohanty

Who else would think of Four Screenplays by Ingmar Bergman, post-was modern cinema in Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal in the late 60s, early 70s Cuttack! Anyone who knows Odia film and music industry will acknowledge the anachronism. #KhokaBhai #AkshayaMohanty

#AkshayaMohanty is for all moods, all genres, all ages, and the man other than composing and singing, wrote books, penned fine lyrics for nearly 5 decades. A huge potential to achieve national fame, he found himself a misfit in Bollywood preferring bylanes of Cuttack. #KhokaBhai

The least Odisha govt can do is to set up Centre for Akshaya Mohanty Music Studies, institute some scholarships for it, let students research on the legend, translation projects, write some theses, etc. #AkshayaMohanty deserves that recognition. #KhokaBhai

Ending this thread with an English translation of the iconic 'He phaguna tume' that I attempted sometime ago: http://sambitspeak.blogspot.com/2015/05/o-spring-translation.html. Tributes to #AkshayaMohanty aka #KhokaBhai on his birth anniversary.