'''BHABENDRANATH SAIKIA (B.1932)'''


Assamese director born in Nowgong. Physicist
with doctorate from Imperial College of
Science and Technology, London (1960).
Lecturer at Gauhati University (1962-81). Major
Assamese short-story writer (e.g. tile
anthologies Sindoor, 197:3; Shrinkhal, 1976).
Prolific radio playwright. Currently edits
fortnightly Prantik and children's monthly
Safura. Writes his own films, which he believes
to be the most important of his creative output,
occasionally based on hi:, fiction: e.g. Kola hal.
his best-known film, based on his radio play,
andAguisnau, based on his own noveL
Directorial debut in 1977. Makes art-house
films with a strongly melodramatic literary
tendency combined with an ethnographic
realism the truck scenes of Kolahal).


'''FILMOGRAPHY''': 1977: Sandhya Raag;
1981: Anirban; 1985:Aginsnan; 1988:
Kolahal; 1991: Sarothi; 1993: Abartan; 1995:
ltihas.

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