List of of Drama for 2014-15 Session
Akou Adin
Manash Kanya
Sendoorar Rang Kiya Ronga
Kohinoor Theatre
The Kohinoor Theatre (Assamese: কহিনুৰ থিয়েটাৰ) is a mobile theatre group of the North-Eastern Indian state of Assam, founded by Sri Ratan Lahkar in 1976.
From Dhubri to Sadiya, from the north bank to the south bank of the Brahmaputra, Kohinoor Theatre performed its dramas, attracting thousands of spectators who came to see them perform.
Apart from initiating a theatrical movement, Kohinoor Theatre introduced co-acting on the stages of Assam. In 1931, Brajanath Sarma, with the help of theatre actor and playwright Phani Sarma introduced female actresses for the first time to appear in their drama productions at a time when male acting was completely dominant, revolutionizing the nature of Assamese theatre. Ratan Lahkar has done significant job by performing real drama based on Indian, Assamese culture and some famous drama of Shakespeare. Also he brought the Atlantic ocean on stage by performing the famous movie "Titanic" which even surprised people from Hollywood. He has introduced double acting on stage which is really surprising.
Kohinoor Theatre is the only Assamese mobile theatre group that has performed outside Assam. National School of Drama (NSD) had invited the troupe to perform in New Delhi in the year 2010 for 3 days from April 25 to 29.
Chicken Reciepies
Chicken in rice powder gravy, is a common and very popular dish in every Mising household and everyone has their own special way of preparing it.
Ingredient:
Chicken -1/2 kg (best if its local chicken),
2 tbsp mustard oil,
2 onions,
2 bay leaves,
3-5 red chillies,
2 tsp ginger garlic paste, salt,
1/2 cup rice powder (rice soaked for 20 mnts, drained and powdered coarsely i.e. for about 10-15 secs in the grinder),
4 cups boiling water.
Heat oil in a kerahi/wok, add chilli and bay leaves and fry the onions.
Add chicken pieces , ginger garlic paste and sauté till the chicken turns light brown in colour. Pour the
boiling water on to the chicken till the water covers the chicken. Let the gravy come to boiling point. Add the rice powder gradually and keep stirring the gravy at this point. Stop adding the rice powder when the gravy attains dal like consistency. Cook for about 7-8 mnts , add cherry tomatoes (optional), coriander and take off heat. Serve hot with rice.
Joymoti Assamese Movie
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Joymoti or Joimoti (Assamese: জয়মতী), released on 10 March 1935, was the first Assamese film made. Based on Lakshminath Bezbaroa's play about the 17th-century Ahom princess Soti Joymoti, the film was produced and directed by the noted Assamese poet, author, and film-maker Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, and starred Aideu Handiqueand acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma. The film, shot between 1933 and 1935,[1] was released by Chitralekha Movietone in 1935 and marked the beginning of Assamese cinema.
Joymoti was screened at the 50th International Conference of the Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMC) of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in March 2011.[2]
Other screenings include:
- India-Bangladesh Joint Celebration of 100 Years of Indian Cinema, Dhaka (2012)
- UCLA's Centre for India and South Asia Studies, Los Angeles (April 2010)
- Osian-Cinefan's 10th Film Festival of Asian and Arabic Cinema, New Delhi (2008)
- Filmbüro Baden Württemberg's Internationales Indisches Filmfestival, Stuttgart (2006)
- Asiaticafilmidale (Encounters with Asian Cinema), Rome (2006)
- Munich Film Festival (2006).
Although never a commercial success, Joymoti was noted for its political views and the use of a female protagonist, something almost unheard of in Indian cinema of the time.
