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Northeast India Needs A Separate Time Zone?

Northeast India Needs A Separate Time Zone?

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The demand for a separate time zone for the Northeast is quite old and over the years there have been a number of proponents in its favour. In India, Northeast receives the sun’s first rays in the morning and it is also the first region to experience the sunset. This natural phenomenon, as the proponents of a separate time zone suggest, is one of the primary reasons for which the…

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"Priyanka Chopra is a great co-producer", says Shahnaab Alam

“Priyanka Chopra is a great co-producer”, says Shahnaab Alam

Shahnaab Alam, who is gearing up for the release of his new project ‘Bhoga Khirikee’ along with co-producer Priyanka Chopra, believes that she is one of the best people to work with.

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“Priyanka has a very keen sense of storytelling where she grasps the finer nuances. It’s the astute focus and creative sensitivity that make her a pleasure to collaborate with. Above all, she has…

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Who will be conferred with the 2017 Bhupen Hazarika National Award?

Who will be conferred with the 2017 Bhupen Hazarika National Award?

Who will be conferred with the 2017 Bhupen Hazarika National Award? Options : 1. Lou Majaw 2. Jahnu Barua 3. Samudra Gupta Kashyap 4. Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi Current Affairs , General Awareness , General Knowledge Today , Current Affairs with Questions General Knowledge Question and Answer with Explanation Answer and Explanation Answer is : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi Explanation : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi,…

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Best Assamese OTT platforms in India - Bengali OTT service providers

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Reel Drama is the best Assamese & Bengali OTT platform that turns the spotlight to the cinema form of the North East which continues to remains largely inaccessible in the age of OTT. With the change in the attitude of movie goers towards the best Assamese new movies is resulting in the good days for the cinema.

Assamese cinema also known as Jollywood has come a long way ever since the industry was born over a half century ago. Since then it has developed a slow paced, sensitive style with popular movies from cinematic personalities such as Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua.

With the beginning of the 21st century has seen Bollywood style Assamese movies hitting the screen with the industry not been able to compete in the market significantly overshadowed by the Bollywood industry.

However, with the emergence of OTT platforms like Reel Drama OTT Assamese movies are now live and available as an app for iOS, KaiOS (Jio Phone) and Android Users and as a website for desktop users. Voot has introduced the Assamese best movies on its platform for the first time. Also, these movies are now live on MXPlayer and OTT platform.

The year 2019 has two commercial films were released one is Kanchenjunga and another ratnakar Assamese film. Kanchenjunga has become the fastest film to cross the Rs.1 crore in just 4 days and it also crossed the Rs.2 crore within 1 week of its release. In totality it collected a total of Rs.7 crore in all.

These box office collections may be very tiny as compared to Bollywood movies like Houseful 4 that collected Rs.46.5 crore in the opening weekend itself. However, these collections has busted the myth propagated for a long time that Assamese films have no audience and has proved that star power can lift the fortunes of a movie.

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AASU-AJYCP form committees as they look to foray into politics ahead of Assam polls 2021 - Politics News , Firstpost

AASU-AJYCP form committees as they look to foray into politics ahead of Assam polls 2021 – Politics News , Firstpost

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The committee will include former Rajya Sabha member Nagen Saikia, writer-journalist Arup Kumar Dutta, filmmaker Jahnu Barua, and former Meghalaya governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary, among others

Guwahati:The AASU and AJYCP on Wednesday set up a committee of eminent citizens to suggest the two organisation’s future course of action, a step towards…

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Release Akhil Gogoi on Humanitarian Ground: Jahnu Barua - Pratidin Time

Release Akhil Gogoi on Humanitarian Ground: Jahnu Barua – Pratidin Time

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Renowned filmmaker Jahnu Barua requested the State and Central governments to release Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) chief Akhil Gogoi on humanitarian ground.

Barua appealed both the Center and the State to release Gogoi from jail as his health has been deteriorating day by day. “It is not acceptable to keep Akhil in jail during this hour of crises when the entire country is…

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Study from ‘Konikar Ramdhenu’ (Ride on the rainbow).. A film by Jahnu Barua. #speedpaint #digitalart #landcapedesign #conceptart #illustration #moviestill #classicfilms #assamesefilm #jahnubarua #brahmaputrafilmfestival #brahmaputra #drama #assam #nationalfilmawards #photoshop #wacomindia #instaart #painting #visualdevelopment #preproduction #visualart

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Jahnu Barua Withdraws Bhoga Khirikee from Film Festival in Protest Against CAB https://ift.tt/2YEMsOn

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Jahnu Barua Withdraws Bhoga Khirikee from Film Festival in Protest Against CAB National Award-winning filmmaker Jahnu Barua on Tuesday said he has withdrawn his film 'Bhoga Khirikee' (Broken Window), which was produced by Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, from the upcoming Assam film awards in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. via Top Movies News- News18.com

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Jahnu Barua withdraws ‘Bhoga Khirikee’ from film festival in protest against Citizenship Bill

Jahnu Barua withdraws ‘Bhoga Khirikee’ from film festival in protest against Citizenship Bill

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The Assamese filmmaker said that leaders are “disrobing the motherland” only because of power politics

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This Priyanka Chopra-produced Marathi movie is an element 'message' drama, half oddball romance- Leisure Information, Firstpost

http://tinyurl.com/y5h3toyq One other Priyanka Chopra-produced “true story” after final 12 months’s Bhoga Khirikee — an uncharacteristic disappointment from Assamese veteran Jahnu Barua — Paani is as a lot about water, or lack thereof, as it’s about folks. The Marathi-language drama sees actor-producer Adinath Kothare comply with in father Mahesh’s footsteps. On this, his first directorial enterprise, the youthful Kothare instructions either side of the digicam. Behind it, he crafts a masterful portrait of rural Nagdarwadi and its villagers, whose struggles to modernise via water cultivation kind the movie’s major backdrop; in entrance of it, Kothare performs Hanumant “Babu” Kendre, a paragon of decency round whom his story pivots. Caught between his responsibility to his village and the lady he loves, Babu finally grows into the “hero” function, however Kothare makes him work for it. Actually, when Paani opens, Babu is however a minor participant within the grand proceedings. Kothare attracts us into his world with particulars and each day routines; layers of mud cowl each face and each floor, and the warmth virtually radiates off the display. So when a faceless lady carries water again to Nagdarwadi from miles away, the plight she embodies isn’t simply dramatised via her deadly heat-stroke, however via the stark picture of her matka tipping over, as its water drains out onto the parched earth, and as one other lady tries to salvage what’s left of it. The poster of Paani. At first, the movie looks like the story of an area activist, who’s guilted into bringing water initiatives again house to Nagdarwadi. Although, whereas its preliminary setup bears a slight resemblance to Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades — simply swap out electrical energy for water — Paani isn’t involved with the story of a brain-drain mental returning with international or urban-learned experience to rescue the lowly townsfolk he left behind. Somewhat, the activist in query has a pessimistic outlook in terms of progress, so he delegates the job to Babu, a person who’s by no means left Nagdarwadi and, it could appear, a person who doesn’t wish to go away till it’s self-sufficient. Babu is a little bit of a hot-head when it counts, however he lives within the shadow of bosses and politicians; all people appears to be enjoying some kind of sport along with his village. He has a method out, too: had been he to marry native scholar Suvarna (Rucha Vaidya, Jodhaa Akbar), he may most likely go away city and transfer to a spot the place water isn’t both a day-long trek, or a tanker introduced in as political bargaining chip by an area chief (Kishore Kadam, Fandry). Babu’s shy, subdued dynamic with Suvarna is a breezy respite from his sweltering labour. He digs literal holes to harness water, and metaphorical ones by empowering native ladies a lot to their husbands’ chagrin — however even his easy-going romance finds itself in opposition to a ticking clock. As Babu and Suvarna dance round formalities, Suvarna’s mother and father don’t wish to wait round till Babu has failed at his pipe dream. They plan to marry her off elsewhere. On paper, Paani quantities to a linear story of steely dedication overcoming the chances, the type of dime-a-dozen image you’d anticipate to frame on “inspiration porn.” Nonetheless, in Adinath Kothare’s palms, it’s a nuanced character piece. He modulates his tone and demanour as Babu relying on who he’s round — he stumbles and stammers in entrance of Suvarna, however he jumps into motion as quickly as native goons threaten the water challenge — and but, even these seemingly disparate modalities really feel a part of the identical continuum, since Kothare is aware of precisely when to chop to a close-up, or reduce away to a brand new scene, or maintain the digicam only a hair longer. As a result of Babu’s story is informed via essentially the most minor, refined metamorphoses; every response shot seems to alter him ultimately. He grows extra determined. Or extra assured. A step again. A step ahead. You nearly want he had been a extra pompous filmmaker and stored the digicam on himself for longer intervals. Although Kothare additionally is aware of that this story can’t simply be informed by Babu’s face. He composes every scene with a diligent eye in the direction of blocking, capturing the motion of individuals — each as teams and as people — with the kind of three-dimensional scrutiny related to masters like Kurosawa. Lofty reward for a first-time director, however one have a look at Kothare’s staging and the best way his backgrounds and foregrounds work together is sufficient to let you know the place you’re, emotionally talking, at any level within the story. (A very expressive beat performs out as a person sitting within the shadows stands as much as meet the daylight; a potent picture by itself, although one magnified by its redemptive context) What separates Paani from movies of its ilk nonetheless — arguably Kothare’s secret weapon — is tonal steadiness. The movie’s neo-realist, typically improvised high quality is meticulously composed. Suppose again to childhood, and the way your mother and father’ fastidiously thought-about bedtime tales appeared like off-the-cuff adventures spun out of ether; there’s all the time a technique to the insanity, however it’s hidden by attract. The movie drifts between socially-minded “message” drama and oddball romance, two tales that so typically take melodramatic kind, and it roots them in conversational familiarity. And but, in its pursuit of verisimilitude, it neither foregoes the grandeur of the previous, nor apologies for the giddy, thrilling jolt of the latter. It makes grounded actuality, in all its grimness and glee, really feel like music. Paani was screened on the not too long ago concluded New York Indian Movie Competition.  Up to date Date: Jun 03, 2019 18:45:02 IST Your information to the newest election information, evaluation, commentary, stay updates and schedule for Lok Sabha Elections 2019 on firstpost.com/elections. 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RT @guwahatiplus: Renowned filmmakers from Assam Jahnu Barua and Rima Das have been nominated for the ‘Best Director’ award at the New York Indian Film Festival 2019. @rimadasFilm @nyindianff https://t.co/Fn0eegQ1ba

Renowned filmmakers from Assam Jahnu Barua and Rima Das have been nominated for the ‘Best Director’ award at the New York Indian Film Festival 2019.@rimadasFilm @nyindianff pic.twitter.com/Fn0eegQ1ba

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Priyanka Chopra's production Bhoga Khirikee to release on October 26

Priyanka Chopra’s production Bhoga Khirikee to release on October 26

Jahnu Barua’s Bhoga Khirikee produced by Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures and Shahnaab Alam’s Easterly Entertainment will be the opening Film at the 2nd Guwahati International Film Festival. The Film will be screened during the Opening Ceremony of the GIFF at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra on the 25th October’2018.

Bhoga Khirikee also marks the debut of Purple Pebble Pictures…

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Priyanka Chopra's production Bhoga Khirikee to release on October 26 | Lazy Updates

Priyanka Chopra’s production Bhoga Khirikee to release on October 26 | Lazy Updates

Priyanka Chopra’s production Bhoga Khirikee to release on October 26

Jahnu Barua’s Bhoga Khirikeeproduced by Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures and Shahnaab Alam’s Easterly Entertainment will be the opening Film at the 2nd Guwahati International Film Festival. The Film will be screened during the Opening Ceremony of the GIFF at…

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AASU-AJYCP form committees as they look to foray into politics ahead of Assam polls 2021 - Politics News , Firstpost

AASU-AJYCP form committees as they look to foray into politics ahead of Assam polls 2021 – Politics News , Firstpost

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The committee will include former Rajya Sabha member Nagen Saikia, writer-journalist Arup Kumar Dutta, filmmaker Jahnu Barua, and former Meghalaya governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary, among others

Guwahati:The AASU and AJYCP on Wednesday set up a committee of eminent citizens to suggest the two organisation’s future course of action, a step towards…

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Jahnu Barua's 'Bhoga Khirikee' produced by Priyanka Chopra's Purple Pebble Pictures will release on 26 October

Jahnu Barua’s ‘Bhoga Khirikee’ produced by Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures will release on 26 October

Jahnu Barua’s ‘Bhoga Khirikee’ produced by Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures and Shahnaab Alam’s Easterly Entertainment will be the Opening Film at the 2nd Guwahati International Film Festival. The Film will be screened during the Opening Ceremony of the GIFF at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra on the 25th October’2018.

‘Bhoga Khirikee’ also marks the debut of Purple Pebble Pictures…