Lankapodi festival of Daspalla needs a special mention of the spectacular grandeur employed in the presentation of Ramalilain Orissa
A mile long street turns into acting area from the temple to the improvised city of Lanka of Ravana. While the performance is done in phases the acting area expands from place to place in the street where platforms are made for the speaking characters, who reach from the temple in a procession each night.
The many wheeled high wooden crane with a swinging and revolving boom, hanging the Pushpaka Bimana of Ravana complete with a rope ladder and whisking away of Sita on to it in the air, while the crane is dragged by the spectators like a chariot brings a real illusion of the theme in a novel manner.
There are many more interesting features of this production, which are not only
original but also very spectacular and grand.