April has always been a special month for 31-year-old Moon Saikia. With the return of spring come birds, blossoms and Bohag – the Assamese New Year. For Saikia, an actor working in Assam’s biggest ...

Guwahati, Feb 19 (PTI) Kopil Bora, a popular actor of Assamese cinema, today announced that he would launch a production house in order to promote Assamese theatre. The production house will be called ...

Ratan Lahkar was 29 years old and broke when he joined the Natraj Theatre, a mobile theatre company run by his uncle Achyut Lahkar, in Assam in 1969. Today, Lahkar runs the Kahinoor Theatre, a hugely ...

Many men in Manikpur spend seven-nine months of an Assamese year on the road. A large village in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, about 185 km west of Guwahati, Manikpur has for decades been the ‘setting’ ...

At just 41 years of age, theatre practitioner Sukracharjya Rabha had already notched up enough accomplishments of note to warrant the distinction of a full state funeral, deferentially organised a day ...

Progenitor and father of the state's bhramyaman (mobile) theatre, Achyut Lahkar died at the age of 85 at his residence at Patshala in Barpeta district on Sunday. Guwahati: Progenitor and father of the ...

Abahan Theatre's marquee play this year is based on the Olympic bronze medallist. Written by Abhijit Bhattacharya, popular Assamese actor Prastuti Parashar portrays the role of the champion boxer from ...

Nearly two decades after it was made, you’ll still find the residents of Pathshala, a little town in lower Assam, gushing about Titanic. Without ever having watched the film. This is because the ...

OFIL PATHSALA: Every evening, 'Mary Kom' enters the ring on Assam's mobile theatre arena and mesmerises the audience with her power punches and her riveting story. This has been going on since August ...