| 1 | '''BHABENDRANATH SAIKIA (B.1932)''' |
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| 4 | Assamese director born in Nowgong. Physicist |
| 5 | with doctorate from Imperial College of |
| 6 | Science and Technology, London (1960). |
| 7 | Lecturer at Gauhati University (1962-81). Major |
| 8 | Assamese short-story writer (e.g. tile |
| 9 | anthologies Sindoor, 197:3; Shrinkhal, 1976). |
| 10 | Prolific radio playwright. Currently edits |
| 11 | fortnightly Prantik and children's monthly |
| 12 | Safura. Writes his own films, which he believes |
| 13 | to be the most important of his creative output, |
| 14 | occasionally based on hi:, fiction: e.g. Kola hal. |
| 15 | his best-known film, based on his radio play, |
| 16 | andAguisnau, based on his own noveL |
| 17 | Directorial debut in 1977. Makes art-house |
| 18 | films with a strongly melodramatic literary |
| 19 | tendency combined with an ethnographic |
| 20 | realism the truck scenes of Kolahal). |
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| 23 | '''FILMOGRAPHY''': 1977: Sandhya Raag; |
| 24 | 1981: Anirban; 1985:Aginsnan; 1988: |
| 25 | Kolahal; 1991: Sarothi; 1993: Abartan; 1995: |
| 26 | ltihas. |
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| 28 | [[Director]] |