Career
He worked in the Oriya film industry as an actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and playback singer. He was also the former Minister of State of Odisha. In 1962, he debuted in the movie Nua Bou.
Nanda worked as an actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and playback singer.
Nanda acted as male lead and directed the Hindi film Naiyya released in the year 1979. In 2009, his film Jianta Bhoota was released.
He was the Bharatiya Janata Party"s (BJP) senior leader and Odisha state Vice President. He resigned from his membership in August 2007.
FitFat Bioscope award, 2005
In 2013, it was announced that he had joined other Bollywood and international celebrities in the TeachAIDS initiative, a state-of-the-art approach to worldwide Human Immunodeficiency Virus prevention, developed at Stanford University.