Khyanikaa: The Lost Idea

• Amrita Chowdhury as Idea
• Swastik Choudhury as British
• Susant Misra as Lazy Man
• Choudhury Bikash Das as Mad Man
• Hrushikesh Bhoi as Fate
• Dipanwit Dashmohapatra as Postman
• Anu Choudhury as Commercial actress
• Bhaswati Basu as Lazy Man's wife

The film earned a lot of critical acclaim from the film festival circuit.[4] The Navhind Times listed Khyanikaa in its list of must-watch films of IFFI for 2017.

Film critic Taryll Baker, in his review published on UK Film Review, writes - "Amartya Bhattacharyya’s Khyanikaa: The Lost Idea throws us into a wonderland filled with impeccable colour and strange but convivial characters."[5]

Soumika M Das, film critic of the New Indian Express, writes - "Defying the conventional formula of filmmaking, director Amartya Bhattacharya explores the problems of contemporary lives with satirical undertones in his Odia film, Khayanikaa The Lost Idea. His portrayal of the plot resembles the fashion in which a modern author presents his ideas in a stream of consciousness novel."[6]

In June 2020, Khyanikaa released on Amazon Prime Videos, but was removed from the Indian territory after a couple of days.[7] An official spokesperson was quoted saying "The Odia film Khyanikaa: The Lost Idea was inadvertently made available by the distributors of the film, through the self-publishing program Prime Video Direct. We regret this error. When Prime Video launched in India over 3 years ago, we were offering content across 5 Indian languages namely Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. Since then, we have carefully and consistently curated our local library, which currently features content in 9 Indian languages including Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam."[8]

It led to a strong protest on social media.[9] While film lovers used the hash tag #BringKhyanikaaBack as a mark of protest, Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka met the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Jadevekar to raise the concern.[10]