In a night that celebrated the spirit and storytelling of Northeast Indian cinema, Urmila Mahanta emerged as one of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roi Roi Binale has had a successful run at the Box Office. The film, which sees late Assamese singer Zubeen Garg in his final role as blind musician Raul, clearly struck a poignant role with audiences ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Assamese film fraternity, which observed the ‘Day of Solidarity: Let’s Join for Assamese Cinema’ on Tuesday, sought to direct government and public attention to the dwindling fortunes of regional ...