Assam's travelling theatres are playing to packed audiences in both urban and rural areas despite jazzed up cinema complexes and cable television. HT Image About three years ago, the state produced ...
For many in Assam, the fact that Rima Das’s Village Rockstars won the National Award for Best Feature Film earlier this month is just sinking in. It has, after all been nearly 30 years since an ...
Guwahati, March 26: The year was 1975. The “bad man” of Assamese cinema, Dinesh Das, paced about nervously as Amitabh Bachchan got ready to disfigure him with practised kicks and punches. A ...
Assamese film-makers such as Bhabendranath Saikia, Jahnu Barua and Santwana Bordoloi have received national and international acclaim, but the growth of Assamese cinema has been impeded due to a small ...
July 6: Hope flowed into the struggling Assamese film industry with Deuta Diya Bidaii, the multi-starrer Assamese film, continuing its run for the fourth consecutive week. However, the prevailing ...
No mean feat considering the film, Joymoti, was produced just four years after the first Indian talkie Alam Ara was released (1931) in what was Bombay Presidency then. This article went live on March ...
It was Bolinarayan Bora’s essay titled Chah Bagisar Coolie (The Tea Garden Coolie), published in 1887 in ‘Mau’, a magazine which he edited and published from Kolkata, which is today seen as the most ...
The trailer, poster and title track of Moromor Deuta were unveiled in Guwahati, marking the start of promotions. The Assamese feature film is scheduled for a theatrical release on May 15. Directed by ...
“I had a dream of working in particular kind of film – an arthouse film,” says Lima Das, about what drew her to Aamis (Ravening), the recently-released Assamese film, which had its world première at ...
The movie was not only released in Garg’s home state of Assam but also pan-India with 180 screenings across India, a rare feat for Assamese movies to achieve. This was in line with the late singer’s ...
At Cannes Film Festival, Papon represented Assamese culture and cinema. He says, “I attended Cannes Film Festival as the cultural ambassador of Assam. I was asked by the Ministry of Culture to ...
When Sumir Dewri was a student at the Dr Bhupen Hazarika Regional Government Film and Television Institute in Guwahati, his professor pointed out that his tribe, Tiwa (also known as Lalung), had never ...
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