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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an effort to popularise Assamese cinema, a production company has come out with a novel idea of introducing mobile theatres. The 500-seater travelling theatre has a screen that is 15 feet high and ...

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 ...

Last winter, hundreds of houses on a hillock on the eastern fringes of Guwahati were demolished as part of an eviction drive to apparently clear a wildlife sanctuary of alleged illegal construction.

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 ...