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SAA presents a Screening of the Assamese National Award-Winning Film, Kothanodi (The River of Fables)

SAA presents a Screening of the Assamese National Award-Winning Film, Kothanodi (The River of Fables)

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School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU

 

Presents

 

A Screening of the Assamese National Award-Winning Film,

Kothanodi (The River of Fables)

 

at the SAA Auditorium, JNU
On Friday, 3rd Nov 2017, 4:30 PM

 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Bhaskar Hazarika

 

Kothanodi (Assamese: কথানদী, English: The River of Fables) is an Assamese feature film written and directed by Bhaskar Hazarika and stars Seema Biswas, Adil Hussain, Zerifa Wahid, Kopil Bora etc.  The story of the film is based on folktales from Assam. Kothanodi won the Asian Cinema Fund's Post Production Fund Award for 2015, and was first screened at the 20th Busan International Film Festival which was held from 1 to 10 October 2015. In April 2016, the film won the Best Feature Film in Assamese Award in the 63rd National Film Awards.

 

Bhaskar Hazarika made his cinematic debut with this film. After graduating in Film and Drama from the University of Reading, Hazarika worked in the media industry in Bombay before releasing Kothanodi to critical and commercial acclaim in 2015. He is currently working on his next feature film.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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