Director: Jahnu Barua; Writer: Jahnu Barua; Producer: Sailadhar Barua; Cinematographer: Binod Pradhan; Editor: Jahnu Barua; Cast: Biju Phukan, Gopi Desai, Sushil Goswami, Dulal Roy, Runjun, Amulya Kakoti, Abdul Majid
Summary: Grim melodrama set in the context of the All-
Assam Students’ Union agitations during the
1983 elections, a familiar setting for mainstream
Assamese cinema of the period (cf. Hem Bora’s
Sankalpa, 1986). Papori’s (Desai) husband
Binod (Goswami) is falsely arrested for murder.
Her daughter is in hospital, where she
eventually dies. Papori’s only support, a police
inspector (Phukan), finds the true murderer but
cannot arrest him because the killer enjoys
political protection. Papori is raped by a
smuggler, her husband is convicted of murder
and only an arbitrarily added epilogue,
claiming that the husband is eventually freed
and the good inspector promoted, brings a
glimmer of relief. In his later Halodiya
Choraye Baodhan Khaye (1987), Barua
again weaves contemporary political events
into a melodramatic plot.
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