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The First Assamese Celluloid Hero ............
Who was the first Assamese celluloid heroine- Aideo Handique is the prompt answer. But who was the first Assamese hero in a film? No answer unless you are a quiz maniac like Dilip Sarma.
Are we not aware that Assam and Nagaland chroniclers are oblivious of a lot people among themselves who deserve recognition, documentation and fellow countrymen's gratitude for their worth.
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of the unsung heroes from Nagaland and Assam.
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For information about the first Assamese film hero you would be searching January 2001 issue of a small Assamese magazine Hiya edited by a popular Assamese author Ranju Hazarika. The magazine in one of its columns run by Dilip Sarma mentions Prabhat Sarma from Tinsukia in Assam was the hero of the India's second talkie, a Bengali film Jamai Sasthi. The second Indian movie Jamai Sasthi was released on 11 April 1931. Its producer was J F Madan and director Amar Chaudhury. Prabhat Sarma thus earned credit as the first Assamese and the second Indian film hero. No one from Assam took part in a film before Prabhat.
(Collected from Hiya, editor Ranju Hazarika, January 2001) home
