Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Hkhgoroloi Bohu Door

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Jul 3, 2012, 12:23:18 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Hkhgoroloi Bohu Door'''
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+aka It’s a Long Way to the Sea
+1994 106’ col Assamese
+d/co-sc/p Jahnu Barua co-p Sailadhar Barua
+pc Dolphin Communications co-sc/dial/ed Heu-
+En Barua c P. Rajan m Satya Barua
+lp Bishnu Khargaria, Susanta Barua, Arun Nath,
+Kashmiri Saikia Barua, Miral Quddus
+
+
+Barua’s Assamese modernisation melodrama
+tells of the boatman Puwal (Kharghoria) who
+ferries people across the remote Dihing river.
+On the invitation of his son Hemanta (Nath), he
+goes to see him in the city, Guwahati. Hemanta
+invited the old man mainly to have him sign a
+legal document that would enable the sale of
+family land. The circumstances of the deal
+disillusion Puwal, who returns to his village.
+There, in the film’s second half, a bridge is built
+over the river by corrupt politicians and
+bureaucrats, losing the boatman his ancestral
+employment. Constructed in two movements,
+the film is held together by the relationship
+between Puwal and his orphaned grandson,
+Hkhuman (S. Barua), which becomes the
+framing device representing the kind of
+modernity that encircles the uncomprehending
+old man. Elements of the plot resemble the
+director’s earlier Halodiya Choraye
+Baodhan Khaye (1987), but even the
+symbolic revolt of the earlier film is now
+missing.
+
+[[Film]]