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 ...

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 ...

The trailer, poster and title track of Moromor Deuta were unveiled in Guwahati, marking the start of promotions. The Assamese ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assamese feature film 'Moromor Deuta', based on a celebrated novel by eminent litterateur and National Award-winning ...