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 ...

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 ...

We applaud the stars who received major honours at the Filmfare Awards Assamese 2026. The winners for 2024 and 2025 have been announced.

After a seven-year break, filmmaker Jahnu Baruah returns with Herowa Chanda, reflecting on family, Gen Z, and the risks of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...