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Bhupen Hazarika
Born September 8, 1926 · Sadiya, Assam Province, British India
Died November 5, 2011 · aged 85
No biography available.
Known For
Daina · 1984Daina
1984
MovieDocumentary
The film is based on the witch-craft practice amongst the villagers.
Chingaari · 2006Chingaari
★ 3.02006
MovieDramaRomance
Mithun Chakraborty plays a powerful and domineering priest who rules his temple and the surrounding village with an iron fist, all supposedly for the sake of religion. He becomes enamored with a prostitute (Sushmita Sen) from a local brothel and begins spending more and more time with her. But when the village postman (Anuj Sawhney) takes a liking to her as well, the priest is forced to deal with him and a growing village rebellion.
Gaja Gamini · 2000Gaja Gamini
★ 6.62000
MovieDramaFantasy
A mysterious and beautiful woman, in her various incarnations, inspires artists throughout the ages.
Rudaali · 1993Rudaali
★ 4.91993
MovieDrama
Shanichari is a beautiful girl born in lower cast and her life is full of sufferings because of lower cast, poor finances, lost parents, drunken husband, mischievous son. The title refers to a custom in some parts of Rajasthan—where aristocratic women were long kept secluded and veiled—of hiring professional women mourners on the death of a male relative, a rudaali (pronounced “roo-dah-lee”—literally, a female “weeper”) to publicly express the grief that family members, constrained by their high social status, were not permitted to display—or at times, perhaps did not feel. Underwritten by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and Doordarshan (Indian national television) and based on a short story by famed Bengali author Mahasweta Devi—whose tales often focus on the travails of low-caste women.
Darmiyaan: In Between · 1997Darmiyaan: In Between
★ 9.01997
MovieDrama
The saga of Mazhuddin Khan alias Immi, born in 1939 in Bombay, British India, as a eunuch, whose mother, Zeenat, in denial that she has sired him, refers to him as her younger brother. She attains fame, has an affair with Inder Kumar Bhalla, only to lose him years later to a younger actress, Chitra. Embittered, she sets out to seek vengeance, takes to gambling and alcohol, isolates and alienates herself from the film-world, and then must also deal with the news that Immi has become the 'father' of a male child, Murad. In the end, it is Immi that saves her from total self-destruction.
Indramalati · 1939Indramalati
★ 10.01939
MovieRomance
Indramalati is the second Assamese language film, directed by the great Assamese poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala Jyotiprasad Agarwala wrote the story of Indramalati, which was a tale of romance.
Mera Dharam Meri Maa · 1976Mera Dharam Meri Maa
★ 8.01976
MovieDrama
Mera Dharam Meri Maa tells the story of two brothers, Takar and Talo, their moral choices and where those choices lead to. Set in the era when the present-day Arunachal Pradesh was called NEFA, the film also gives a glimpse of the life and culture of the people who have seen the inception of Arunachal Pradesh as a full-fledged state as we know today.
Aparoopa · 1982Aparoopa
★ 7.01982
MovieDrama
Set in the tea plantations of Assam in northeast India, where a young woman quits her studies to marry a wealthy man whom her father owes money. The monotony of her days is broken by the arrival an old university acquaintance.



