Abstract
The study explores the entire journey of the Assamese cinema, which means a journey that will narrate many stories from its past and present, furthermore also will try to analyze its future potential. This paper deals with the trends emerging in genres, technical advancement, and visual representation along with a cult that emphasized the commercial success of cinema by toeing the style of Bollywood and world cinema. It explores the new journey of Assamese cinema, which deals with small budgets, realistic approaches, and portraying stories from the native lanes. It also touches upon the phase of ‘freeze’ that the Assamese cinema industry was undergoing due to global pandemic Covid-19.
Highlights
Is there any transformation in the craft of Assamese cinema or it is the same as it was in its beginning phase? Being a regional cinema industry, has the Assamese cinema been able to make its space in the creative catalog of Indian and world cinema? Is there anything radical that it has contributed towards the current and the generation who is accepting and appreciating experimental cinema? This paper aims to explore the elongated journey of the Assamese cinema, a journey that will narrate many stories from its past and present as well analyze its future potential
It endeavors to provide a gist of the current scenario of the Assamese cinema: the new journey dealing with smaller budgets, a more realistic approach, and portraying stories from the native lanes
The contemporary period has the potential to nurture many auteurs from the regional landscape with their own styles of treating simple to complex stories: stories that need not wait for big budgets, big stars, big banners, and multiplexes to be produced and released
Summary
This paper aims to explore the elongated journey of the Assamese cinema, a journey that will narrate many stories from its past and present as well analyze its future potential It will have an insight in illustrating how the cinema industry of Assam has faced privation, but still is endeavoring its best to rise like a phoenix by adapting renewed technologies and a vision to live another cycle. It endeavors to provide a gist of the current scenario of the Assamese cinema: the new journey dealing with smaller budgets, a more realistic approach, and portraying stories from the native lanes. The growth of Assamese cinema is gradual as compared to the other mainstream cinema industry in the country
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