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Kanyadaan (2002 Film)
''Kanyadaan'' () is a 2002 Indian Assamese-language family drama film directed by Munin Barua. Story The story is based on a joint family of a place called Bokulpur. The protagonist of the movie (Jatin Bora) is the youngest son of the family who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy background of the town. He has three brothers and three sisters in law. The sisters in law knows about his fascination towards the girl but the brothers are not aware of it. It is social movie projecting a simple family of the middle-class background. Cast *Jatin Bora as ''Utpal Baruah'' *Rituparna Kataki as ''Reema'' *Arun Nath as ''Vijoy Baruah'' *Mridula Baruah as ''Joya'' *Jayanta Das as ''Vinanda Baruah'' *Madhurima Chaudhury as ''Neera'' *Bhaskar Bora as ''Vinoy Boruah'' *Purabi Sarma as ''Rubi'' *Chetana Das *Hiranya Deka as ''Phonidhor'' *Tapan Das as ''Ronjit Phukan'' * Manjula Baruah * Jagadish Bhuyan *Rashami Desai (cameo) Soundtrack The music of ''Kanyadaan'' is composed by Zubeen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munin Barua
Munin Barua ( as, মুনিন বৰুৱা; 5 November 1946 – 7 April 2018) was an Indian film director in Assamese cinematography. Among his best-known films are ''Pita-Putro'', ''Prabhati Pokhir Gaan'', ''Hiya Diya Niya'', Daag, '' Nayak'' and ''Bidhata''. Barua is widely regarded in Assam to have been one of the directors who helped popularize and establish Assamese cinema outside the state, primarily elsewhere in India where other industries had historically dominated. In 2000, his film ''Hiya Diya Niya'' became a first 'blockbuster hit' in Assamese cinema, which helped revive the Assamese film industry. Another film, ''Dinabandhu'', received National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese in 2005. He died on 7 April 2018, at the age of 71 in Guwahati. Early life Barua was born in 1946 at Khumtai in Golaghat district, Assam. His father was late Hemendra Nath Barua, who was the mouzadar in Khumtai mouza and mother is Latika Barua. He is the youngest in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer and television personality. One of the highest-paid and most well-established playback singers of Indian cinema, she has received four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, two BFJA Awards, seven Filmfare Awards and ten Filmfare Awards South. She has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and has established herself as one of the leading playback singers of Indian cinema. Ghoshal began learning music at the age of four. At the age of six, she started her formal training in classical music. When she reached sixteen, she was noticed by filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's mother after she won the television singing reality show ''Sa Re Ga Ma''. Following the success, she made her Bollywood playback singing debut with Bhansali's romantic drama ''Devdas'' (2002) for which she received a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Assam
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assamese-language Films
Assamese (), also Asamiya ( ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-east Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language, and it serves as a ''lingua franca'' of the wider region. The easternmost Indo-Iranian language, it has over 23 million speakers. Nefamese, an Assamese-based pidgin, is used in Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language, is widely used in Nagaland. The Kamtapuri language of Rangpur division of Bangladesh and the Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts of India are linguistically closer to Assamese, though the speakers identify with the Bengali culture and the literary language. In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century. Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved at least before the 7th century CE from the middle Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit. Its sister languages include Angika, Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rajbangsi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaan (singer)
Shantanu Mukherjee (born 30 September 1972), popularly known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer, composer, live perfomer ,actor and television personality. He has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and has established himself as one of the highest-paid and best-established playback singers of Indian cinema. Shaan hosted the shows ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'', ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs'', '' Star Voice of India'' and '' STAR Voice of India 2''. In '' Music Ka Maha Muqabla'', his team, ''Shaan's Strikers'', finished as the runners up to Shankar Mahadevan's team. He appeared as a judge in ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs'' 2014–2015 and ''The Voice India Kids 2016''. In 2015 and 2016, Shaan was the winning coach in each of the first two seasons of ''The Voice''. In 2016, in ''The Voice India Kids'', he was the coach of the runner-up contestant. His sister Sagarika is also a singer. Early life Shaan was born on 30 September 1972 in Bombay in a Bengali fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnab Chakrabarty
Arnab Chakrabarty (born 19 September 1980) is a Hindustani classical musician and sarod player based in Toronto, Canada. Early life and education Arnab Chakrabarty grew up in Mumbai, where his father was a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology. His tutelage commenced under the sarod exponent Brij Narayan, disciple of his father the sarangi Pandit Ram Narayan and also Ustad Ali Akbar Khan of the Seniya Maihar Gharana. Arnab subsequently trained under Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta of the Shahjahanpur Gharana. Arnab studied ethnomusicology and international relations at Hampshire College as a scholarship student, graduating in 2002. This experience exposed him to other traditions of music, and led him to experiment with new ideas in sarod construction and design, as well as musical idioms. Subsequent tutelage and influences Arnab's early training followed the Maihar and Shahjahanpur schools, which both derived from the Senia idiom founded by the legendary Mian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anindita Paul
Anindita Paul is an Indian singer who sings predominantly in Assamese, Bengali and Hindi languages. Early life Anindita Paul was born in 1979 in Guwahati, Assam, into a Bengali family of Amal Kanti Paul and Shyamali Paul. Her father was in the Contract and Vigilance departments of the Food Corporation of India while her mother was a homemaker who was musically inclined and had performed in college fests. Early performances She acquired a Visharad degree in Indian classical music (vocal) from an institution affiliated to the Bhatkhande Music Institute in Lucknow. She trained with Dwipen Roy in Guwahati and later visited Kolkata to learn from Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. Paul began singing at stage shows in Assam. She was soon a graded artist in ''bhajan'' and modern song at All India Radio Guwahati. Though her father had been initially hesitant about encouraging her to pursue a musical career, he was soon won over by her dedication to her vocal ''riyaaz''. Non-film music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Patowary
Kalpana Patowary is an Indian playback and folk singer from Assam. She sings in 30 languages and has many folk and popular songs to her credit, while Bhojpuri music has been her most dedicated foray. In his book, Cinema Bhojpuri, Avijit Ghosh lauds Patowary for her "remarkable contribution" to Bhojpuri film music. "Gifted with a rich, powerful and sensuous voice, the singer from Assam is almost considered mandatory for any film's score," he writes. Early life and background Patowary was born in a Yogi-Nath family of Nath samradaya community in Barpeta district in Assam. A graduate in English literature, Patowary is an alumnus of Cotton College of Guwahati. Trained in Kamrupiya and Goalporiya folk music by her folksinger father Sri Bipin Nath Patowary, Kalpana started to publicly perform at the tender age of 4 with her father and is also trained as Sangeet Visharad in Indian classical music from Bhatkhande Music Institute University, Lucknow. She sings many forms of Bhojpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manas Robin
Manas Robin (born 3 December 1976) is an Indian music director , singer , musician , lyricist , filmmaker , Bihu artist , and music producer . Personal life Childhood Manas Robin was born to Mr. Rabindra Nath Gogoi and Mrs. Tilabala Dihingia on 03 December 1976. He did his early schooling at 233 No. Nimaijan Prathamik Vidyalaya (primary school). He did his matriculation from Sivasagar Government Higher Secondary School. After that, he went to Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat for further education. Career In 1995 his first solo album ''Niharika'' under the banner of Music Makers was released. It was followed by ''Ujan Piriti'' in 1997 under Typhoon Production, ''Manas Kanya'' and ''Barasha'' under Saraswati Communications in 1999. He has been the youngest director to score music for an Assamese film in 1999 when he composed music for ''Priya O’ Priya''. He has, since then done music direction for over 20 Assamese feature films. He has directed music for over 500 music albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada. Career Playback singing Mahalakshmi made her playback debut with the film ''Dus'' in 1997'','' but the film never completed and released due to the sudden passing of the film's director. The album however was released in 1999 as a tribute. She sang the track ''Ae Ajnabee'' with Udit Narayan for A. R. Rahman in Mani Ratnam's '' Dil Se..'' which was her first release as a playback singer and considered to be her debut. Mahalakshmi continued singing for Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and A.R. Rahman in many films which followed. Since then she has also sung many serials, jingles, and original albums. She was part of several successful soundtracks such as '' Mission Kashmir'', '' Yaadein'' and '' Saathiya'' and worked with some of the biggest music composers like A. R. Rahma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shudhu Tumi
''Shudhu Tumi'' is a 2004 Bengali film directed by Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy, produced by Sagar Bhora and Siddhartha Bhora, and starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Koel Mallick in the lead roles. Zubeen Garg composed the music. Cast * Prosenjit Chatterjee as Rohit * Koel Mallick as Nandini * Gargi Roychowdhury as Rani * Payel Sarkar as Anjana, Rohit's sister * Kalyani Mondal as Rohit's Mother * Arijit Chowdhury * Debnath Chattopadhyay * Dwijen Bandyopadhyay Rohit's Uncle * Joyjit Banerjee as Rohit's Brother Rahul * Parthasarathi Deb Soundtrack Music composed by Zubeen Garg. The album contains 8 total tracks except 4 tracks which were reused from Garg's earlier Assamese Films. "Gun Gun Gun Gunjare" reused as "Uth Gutibo Janene" from 2002 Assamese film '' Kanyadaan'', "Shure Shure Gaan Holo" reused "Lahe Lahe Barhise" from 2001 Assamese film '' Nayak'', "E Choker Kachhete" reused "Monore Poduli Dolisa" from 2004 Assamese film ''Barood'' and "Sajbe Ebar Koner" reused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagarika
Sagarika Mukherjee (born 4 September 1970), also known as Saag, is an Indian singer and actress. She sings mainly in Hindi, Assamese and Bengali language songs but has also sung in Tamil and Telugu languages. She is the daughter of singer and composer Manas Mukherjee and granddaughter of lyricist Jahar Mukherjee. Before going solo, she was half of a popular Indian duo with her brother with whom she released albums such as ''Q-Funk'', ''Roop Inka Mastana'' and ''Naujawan''. Apart from singing and acting in movies and albums, she is also a restaurateur. Early life Sagarika Mukherjee was born on 4 September 1970 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, but originally belongs from Kolkata metrocity of West Bengal in a Bengali family. In 1973, she moved to Bombay, Maharashtra (now in Mumbai) with her family. Her father died in 1986. Then, her mother became a singer and took charge of the entire family. Career Early singing Sagarika made her debut as a child playback singer in the Bollywo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
