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On Assam’s film pioneer He made the first Assamese film Joymoti in 1931 when the era of silent movies was over and Indian ‘talking film’ production was still in nascency but it is unfortunate that Jyotiprasad Agarwalla, the pioneering film-maker of extraordinary talent, hardly finds a place in the annals of Indian cinema history. Jyotiprasad tried and almost succeeded in creating a new artistic-realistic perspective for Indian cinema in his very first and only serious film venture, says a new book Jyotiprasad as a Film-maker and the Forsaken Frontier by Sahitya Akademi award-winning author Apurba Sarma. "Jyotiprasad’s depth of cinematic conception as a ‘serious art’ makes him one of the eminent film personalities in the beginning of the Indian talkies," says Sarma, also a recipient of President Gold Medal for film criticism. The fact that he was "born in a godforsaken land called Assam and that personal miseries forced him to stop film-making just after two films should not be held against this film genius," he notes.
A multi-faceted creative genius, having pioneered the modern Assamese
drama, Jyotiprasad dedicated himself to the country’s freedom
struggle. — PTI |
