Hussain, Anwar (b. 1929)

Assamese director. Completed first film, the formally and ideologically orthodox Sarapat, aged 26: a resigned tale of human failure and family disaster. Later work is an early use in Assamese cinema of the language of mythology, both secular and religious, seen most notably in Tejimola.

FILMOGRAPHY: 1955: Sarapat; 1958: Natun Prithibi?; 1963: Tejimola?; 1977: Paap Aru Prayashchitta?; 1983: Shri Shri Maa Kamakhya?.

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