[Assam] luitor pani jabigoi boi

[Himendra Thakur]

To
Shri Manoj K Das
General Secretary,
Assam Association, Delhi
Srimanta Sankaradeva Bhawan
A 14 B Qutub Institutional Area
New Delhi 110067

Dear Manoj, 

Is it possible to get a CD Rom of the movie "Joymoti" as reported below? I think every Assamese of current generation should see this movie. Its finale song "luitor pani jabigoi boi" verily depicts the "originality of the story and the way it is told, which testifies the large and rich culture of Assam."  

In our childhood, we did go to the Sukreswar ghat of Guwahati to watch the sunset over the mighty Brahmaputra and watch the eternity of Luitor Pani flowing right into the Sunset. These are unforgettable imageries.  Bhupenda immortalized this imagery in his famous song "asta akash" ....

With love to everybody, 
Himendra


Joymoti to be screened in Rome
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWASHATI, Nov 3 - The organizers of the 7th Asiaticfilmmediale (Encounters with Asian Cinema) Festival, Rome have selected the reconstructed historic Joymoti of Rupkonwar Jyotiprasad Agarwalla for its screening in the festival. In a letter to Altaf Mazid, who prepared the video version of the film from the available seven reels, the organizers of the festival have said that the film has been selected for "its extraordinary historical value and for the originality of the story and the way it is told, which testifies the large and rich culture of Assam." 

They also said that it would be a unique occasion for the Italian audience to discover the diversity at the roots of the kaleidoscope of India cinema. The screening of the film is scheduled on November 25 in the Cinema Farnese. It needs mention here that the film made by the Rupkonwar and released in 1935 used to take more than two hours for completion of its screening. In1972, Hridayandanda Agarwalla, the youngest brother of the Rukonwar, discovered the seven reels from which the present version is made. The recreated film takes one hour for completion of its screening.

The festival has proposed to screen films from China, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, The Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

The inauguration of the festival will took place at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Popular Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Aria will read some of the poems of Forough Farrokhzad, the greatest woman poet in modern Persian language and maker of the documentary The House Is Black, which will also be screened on the occasion. The concert of famous flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia will follow it.
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