Jatin Bora

Tributes pour in from the film and music industry of Assam for legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday as the fraternity recalled her immense contribution to Assamese music.Well-known singer from Assam Tarali Sarma said, “I think there is not a single singer who is not inspired by her.

Various actors of Assam come together to make a video on Papon's song ‘Paar Hobo Aei Xömöy'

Reeldrama, an OTT platform featuring contemporary film, old-time classics, award-winning movies and web series in various genres, was launched here on Thursday.

After the Pariyal Sampark Abhiyan that will end on Sunday, BJP in Assam is now ready to reach out to the masses through street plays from March 1.

To pace up the Covid vaccination drive in the state, the National Health Mission (NHM), Assam, and the state directorate of health (Family Welfare), in collaboration with healthcare innovation organization LEHS | WISH and the film fraternity launched a unique model awareness campaign to gear up mobilisation efforts and share the need and benefits of inoculation with the community.

Dozens of theatre actors joined the BJP in Assam on Monday with the hope to revive their industry which has been severely hit by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns caused by it.

After reports of miscreants joining their protests after evening and resorting to violence by taking advantage of the darkness, All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) on Friday announced that they will conclude the protests against the now amended Citizenship Act by 5 pm for the next one week.

The logo for the first ever Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF), to be organized by the state government between October 28 and November 2 this year, was unveiled on Sunday.

Assam, the epicentre of anti-CAB protests, was calm on Friday after two days of violence but neighbouring Meghalaya saw thousands of demonstrators assembling outside the Governor’s House in Shillong to demand his assent to an ordinance that makes registration for people intending to visit the hill state mandatory

Ratan Lahkar, the man who took the state's mobile (bhramyaman) theatre to new heights, breathed his last on Sunday. The 76-year-old had been suffering from respiratory ailments.

At a time when the Assamese film industry is said to be in the doldrums because of its limited market and lack of audience response, a new flick that has been partly shot in Thailand has for the first time roped in directors from Bollywood and the Chennai film industry for its action sequences.

The feature section of the Indian panorama category at the International film festival of India (Iffi) 2012 opened on Wednesday with the screening of the Assamese feature film Baandhon, directed by Jahnu Barua, who was also felicitated for his efforts in making the film.

Calling the forthcoming urban local bodies election as the semi-final to the 2016 assembly polls, the BJP said it had launched a “high-voltage” campaign with Assamese film stars and singers being roped in to pep up electioneering.

The BJP has appointed Mahendra Singh, who has worked closely with the party’s national president Amit Shah in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, as its Assam in-charge

After a hiatus of 9 years, internationally acclaimed director Jahnu Baruah’s Assamese venture “Baandhon” was premiered here on Thursday.

The Jorhat unit of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has filed a case with the sadar police station against three schoolteachers for allegedly taking bribe.