Ritupriya Mohapatra
Lead Photographer & Co-FounderGrew up in Cuttack; trained in Bhubaneswar. Leads wedding coverage personally and oversees every portrait and product shoot.
How We Began
It Started With a Wedding We Didn't Shoot.
In 2016, our founder Ritupriya was a guest at her cousin's Bahaghara in Puri — not the photographer, just family. She watched the hired studio direct the bride to "look more dramatic" through the Saptapadi, completely missing the moment the bride's foot actually hesitated over the seventh rice mound. That hesitation was the whole story. Nobody photographed it.
She started the studio a year later with Subodh, a sound recordist who insisted every film should open with whatever was actually playing — Ghoomura drums, a Bahuna song, the particular hum of a factory floor, the actual audio of a room — instead of a licensed track that could belong to any project anywhere.
Nine years on, we've grown from wedding-only bookings into a small studio covering corporate films, music videos, portraits and product shoots too — but every project still gets the same two or three people who'll actually be there, not a rotating roster.
How We Work
Three Things We Won't Compromise On
We Learn the Brief First
Before any contract, we ask what actually matters to you — which version of the Bahaghara your family follows, what a brand wants a film to say, or what a product actually needs to look like. We shoot the real brief, not a generic checklist.
Sound Is Recorded On-Site, Always
The huluhuli, the conch, a boardroom's actual acoustics, a studio's live take — our sound recordist is present at every film we shoot. We've never used a stock track over a real moment, and we won't start now.
Colour Stays True to the Light
No studio preset gets applied blind. Our colourist grades each project against the actual light of where it happened — Chilika's particular grey-green water, Konark's red laterite at dusk, a product's actual studio lighting — rather than a one-size warm filter.
The People Behind the Camera
A Small Studio, on Purpose
Subodh Pradhan
Film & Sound Lead, Co-FounderFormer All India Radio recordist. Leads on-site sound for every wedding film, corporate film and music video we shoot.
Lipika Sahoo
Second PhotographerCovers second-camera duties across weddings, events and corporate shoots while Ritupriya leads the primary coverage.
Amlan Das
Aerial & Drone OperatorLicensed for coastal-belt flights; handles aerial coverage for weddings, event venues and larger corporate shoots alike.
Nine Years, Briefly
How the Studio Grew
2017
TheWeddingNarrtor shoots its first Bahaghara — a single-camera, no-crew booking in Bhubaneswar, for family friends.
2019
First commission at the Konark Sun Temple for a pre-wedding story. The wheel motif becomes the studio's mark.
2021
Added a dedicated sound recordist role — the studio's clearest stance: no licensed music over a real moment.
2023
Began sourcing wedding album cloth directly from Sonepur ikat weavers, and took on our first corporate event booking.
2026
Now a full photography and film studio — weddings, corporate and event videography, music videos, portraits and product shoots — across Bhubaneswar, Puri, Cuttack, Konark, and the Chilika coastal belt.
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