Xagoroloi Bohudoor (It’s a long way to the sea) Directed by: Jahnu Barua Produced by: Jahnu BaruaSailadhar Baruah Gayatri Barua Written by: Jahnu Barua Starring Bishnu Kharghoria Arun Nath Kashmiri Saikia Baruah Sushanta Baruah Music by: Satya Baruah Cinematography P. Ranjan Editing by: Heu-en Baruah Distributed by: Dolphin Films Pvt. Ltd Release date(s) 1995 Running time 106 minutes Country Assam,  India Language Assamese

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Xagoroloi Bohudoor is an Assamese language film directed by Jahnu Barua. The film was released in 1995.

The story revolves around a boatman who earns his living by sailing boat in the nearby ghats. Problem arises when the government decides to construct a bridge on it which will deprive his earnings. His son who lives in city wants his father only to take care of their property.

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Suren Suror Putek (Son of Suren, the thief) Directed by: Chandra Mudoi Produced by: Pranjal Bharali Chabi Bharali Written by: Chandra Mudoi Starring Jatin Bora Prashtuti Parashar Nishita Goswami Chetana Das Music by: Dr Hitesh Baruah Distributed by: Gargi Entertainment Co. Pvt. Ltd. Release date(s) 2005 Country Assam,  India Language Assamese

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Suren Suror Putek is an Assamese language commercial movie directed by Chandra Mudoi. The title role is played by Jatin Bora. This is the first Assamese film to highlight the art of magic and the talented magicians of the State.

The film revolves around the escapades of Soni (Jatin Bora), the son of a thief named Suren. Realising that he will always be looked down upon as his father’s son, the youth takes to magic in a bid to achieve success and earn respect.

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In Hindu mythology Shakuntala is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. Her story is told in the Mahabharata and dramatized by Kalidasa

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The earliest adaptation into a film was when Bhupen Hazarika made the Assamese Film Shakuntala in 1961. It won the President’s Silver Medal and was critically acclaimed. Shakuntala was also made into a Malayalam movie by the same name in the year 1965. It starred K. R. Vijaya and Prem Nazeer as Shakuntala and Dushyanta respectively. Rajyam Pictures of C. Lakshmi Rajyam and K. Sridhar Rao produced Shakuntala film in 1966 starring N. T. Rama Rao as Dushyanta and B. Saroja Devi as Shakuntala. It is directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao. A new TV show called ‘Shakuntala’ starring Neha Mehta and Gautam Sharma in the title roles airs on Star One&now showing in star plus

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Puberun Directed by: Prabhat Mukherjee Starring Gyanada Kakoti Tassaduck YusufMargaret Anderson Music by: Tarikuddin Ahmed Release date(s) 1959 Country India Language Assamese

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Puberun is an Assamese language film directed by Prabhat Mukherjee of Kolkata and released in 1959. This is the first assamese film screened in an international Film Festival.

The story is based on mother-child relationship and the truth that every child of this world is equal.

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Papori Directed by: Jahnu Barua Produced by: Sailadhar Baruah Written by: Jahnu Barua Starring Gopi DesaiBiju Phukan Sushil Goswami Chetana Das Dulal Roy Music by: Satya Baruah P. P. Vidyanathan Cinematography Binod Pradhan Studio Dolphin Films Pvt. Ltd Release date(s) 1986 Running time 144 minutes Country Assam,  India Language Assamese

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Papori is an Assamese language feature film directed by Jahnu Barua. The film stars Gopi Desai, Biju Phukan, Sushil Goswami, Chetana Das and Dulal Roy. The film was released in 1986.

The film is set in the political background of the Assam agitation during the 1983 election. It is a story about Papori whose husband Binod is falsely arrested for her murder. A smuggler rapes Papori and her husband is convicted of it. Phukan, a police inspector finds the true murderer but cannot arrest him because the killer enjoys political protection. During this time, her daughter ends up in the hospital, where she eventually dies.

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Maharathi Directed by: Shivam Nair Produced by: Dhilin Mehta Written by: Uttam Gada Starring Boman IraniNeha Dhupia Music by: Shibani Kashyap Cinematography Venu Isc Editing by: Aarti Bajaj Release date(s) 5th December, 2008 Country India Language Hindi

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Maharathi is a Hindi movie produced by Dhilin Mehta. The film was directed by Shivam Nair and stars Boman Irani, Neha Dhupia, Ashwin Nayak, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah and Tara Sharma. The films music is by Shibani Kashyap

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Konikar Ramdhenu (Ride on the Rainbow) Konikar Ramdhenu Directed by: Jahnu Barua Produced by: Sailadhar Baruah Written by: Jahnu Barua Starring Bishnu Kharghoria Moloya Goswami Dinesh Das Ronik Abinash Sharma Ashwini Bhuyan Indrani Gogoi Music by: Reeta Das Baruah Y. S. Moolky Cinematography P. Ranjan Editing by: Heu-En Baruah Distributed by: Dolphin Films Pvt. Ltd Release date(s) 2003 Running time 112 minutes Country Assam,  India Language Assamese

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Konikar Ramdhenu is an Assamese language film directed by Jahnu Barua. The film was released in 2003. The film was shown in Indian Panorama section of IFFI during October 2002 in Delhi and Mumbai International Festival in 2003. The film is the last instalment of his trilogy, the other two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door (1995) and Pokhi (1998). This film depicts the horrors that happen in a juvenile home.

The story revolves around an imaginative and intellegent 11 year old boy Kukoi (played by Ronik) who runs away from his village home and starts working in a motor garage in a city. One day the owner attempts to molest Kukoi and in self defence Kokoi hits the owner with an iron rod killing him on the spot. Kukoi is produced before court and then sent to state juvenile home where he is traumatized. Biswa Boro, the warden of the home, is an understanding man. He coaxes the boy into a confession of the true circumstances of the painful event. Kukoi is brought before the magistrate who orders his release and custody to his parents or any authorised guardian. Biswa goes to Kukoi’s village where he discovers that the boy’s mother died years ago and his stepfather has disowned him. Biswa who is now retired and does not have children decides to adopt Kukoi.

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Kanyadaan is an Assamese movie directed by Munin Baruah.

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The story is based on a joint family of a place called Bokulpur. The protagonist of the movie (Jatin Bora) is the youngest son of the family who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy background of the town. He has three brothers and three sisters in law. The sisters in law knows about his fascination towards the girl but the brothers are not aware of it. It is social movie projecting a simple family of the middle class background.

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Joymati Directed by: Jyotiprasad Agarwala Produced by: Jyotiprasad Agarwala Written by: Lakshminath Bezbaruah (play) Starring Aideu HandiquePhani Sarma Music by: Jyotiprasad Agarwala Cinematography Bhopal Shankar Mehta Distributed by: Chitralekha Movietone Release date(s) 1935 (1935) Country India Language Assamese

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Joymati ( Joimoti), released in 1935, was the first ever Assamese film. Based on Lakshminath Bezbaruah’s play on the 17th century story of Sati Joymati, the film was produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, and starred Aideu Handique and acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma. The film was shot between 1933 and 1935, and released by Chitralekha Movietone in 1935, which marked the beginning of Assamese cinema.

Joymati is the first Assamese film to be screened at US. Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMC) of Northwestern University in Evanston, Los Angeles, has invited Joymati for its 50th international conference to be held from March 17 to 21 next year.

Although never a commercial success, the film was noted for its political views and the use of a female protagonist which in Indian cinema at the time was almost unheard of.

Partly lost today, it is the third talkie and the first “realism” and political film in Indian cinema. The film has been restored in part by Altaf Mazid.

Set in 17th century Assam, the film recounts the sacrifice of Joymati, a medieval Ahom princess who was tortured and killed by the evil Borphukan for refusing to betray her husband. The event is interpreted in contemporary patriotic terms and calls for a greater harmony between the people of the hills and the plains. The hills are represented by the leader Dalimi, a Naga tribeswoman who shelters the fugitive Prince Gadapani.

Joymati was the wife of the Ahom prince Gadapani. During the purge of the princes from 1679 to 1681 under King Sulikphaa (Loraa Roja) instigated by Laluk Sola, Gadapani took flight. At various times he took shelter at Sattras and the adjoining hills outside the Ahom kingdom. Failing to trace Prince Gadapani, Sulikphaa’s soldiers picked up his wife Joymati. Despite brutal and inhuman torture, the princess did not reveal the whereabouts of her husband. After continuous torture for several days she expired.

Joymati’s self-sacrifice bore fruit later. Laluk was murdered in November 1680 by a disgruntled body of household retainers. The ministers were now roused to a sense of patriotism, they made a search for Gadapani. Gadapani gathered strength came back from his exile in Garo hills to oust Sulikphaa from the throne. Joymati knew that her husband was the only person who could end Sulikphaa-Laluk terror rule. For her love and supreme sacrifice for her husband and the country, folk accounts refer to her as a Sati.

The film was released on 10 March 1935 at Raonak Theatre and was inaugurated by Laxminath Bezbarua. At Guwahati it was screened at Kumar Bhaskar Natya Mandir, the only cinema house with sound in the entire Assam. The film was not well received, and it suffered a huge financial loss.

The film was shot on a 4267.20 m length film.
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Jeevan Baator Logori Jeevan Baator Logori Directed by: Timothy Das Hanche Lohit Dutta (Assistant) Produced by: Phukan Konwar Purnananda Gogoi Beauty Baruah Written by: Timothy Das Hanche Starring Nipon GoswamiKapil Bora Hiranya Deka Suchandra Chandra Music by: Biman Baruah Arup Dutta Timothy Das Hanche Cinematography Sibanan Baruah Editing by: Debankur Borgohain Distributed by: Hills Motion Pictures Association Release date(s) October 2, 2009 Running time 118 minutes Country Assam,  India Language Assamese

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Jeevan Baator Logori is an Assamese language feature film directed by Timothy Das Hanche under the banner Hills Motion Pictures Association of Diphu.

The film shows the journey of a young boy from his college days to his professional life as a businessman. Problems like unemployment and agricultural underproduction comes as sub-plots. The film focuses on some significant aspects of our society like chaotic education system, young generation becoming self-reliant through agriculture or through proper acquisition of some other benevolent schemes. It also carries a strong message for the young generation to preserve and uplift the traditional values while accepting modernity.

Pabitra Baruah is a principal of a high school. He is living a happy and contented life with his caring wife Prafulli and a pair of studius twin children Pritom and Tarali. As a leading villager Pabitra always stands for the moral values in running the school-affairs as well as his daily life. Pritom and Tarali, as expected, top their matriculation and leave for Guwahati for higher studies. But the proud parents do not realise that their children left them forever. In due course, Pritom completes his studies and goes to the US on a company scholarshop. On returning he joins a MNC in Mumbai, get married to the daughter of his boss and settles down there. Torali, too, after completion of her higher studies in the US, gets married to an American and settles there. Both of them are so busy and pre-occupaid with their own life, they even could not come back home at the death of their mother. Dinanath Bora is a farmer with his teacher wife Nirmali and children Mohen and Malati. He possesses strong faith and believe in work culture and is always busy with his agricultural activities. The only thing the couple is worried about is their children’s negligence towards studies. Mohen is always busy rehearsing his Bhaona and Malati with singing and dancing around with her folks. Both of the children fail their matriculation. But the parents shows them other fruitful means to shape their lives. Mohan with a financial loan buys a tractor and gets fully involved in agricultural activities. Malati along with other girls from the village forms a self-help group, undergoes training on fruit processing and fruit preservation and open up a big shop of pickle, jam, jelly and other food materials, etc. in the village. For Pabitra Barua, the neighboring people become the source of succour and an integral part for the rest of his life.Thank you for reading the details of Jeevan Baator Logori