"Ajan Fakir Saheb", a new Assamese Film is to be released in Mumbai shortly. The film is directed by Ashif Ikbal Hussain. It is a period film based on the life of the great Ajan Fakir who came from Baghdad originally. The film portrays the social, political and economical life in earlier times. The most noteworthy aspect of the film is that it has tried to focus not only on the religious and communal harmony existing at that time but has also tried to show the work culture that was prevalent in Assam at that time.
Ajan Fakir is being portrayed by the great Actor, Bishnu Khagaria. Khargaria is very happy to be portraying the role of the Ajan Fakir. He has said that this is a very unusual character that he is playing and he has worked hard to get into the soul of the character. Jayanta Bhagawati plays the role of a “Moulobi.” Both of them had to learn things like offering “namaj” besides learning some words of Urdu and Arabic to play the characters effectively.
The film has been presented by Samanya films from Tihu and produced by Bani Kalita. Dialogues for the film have been written by Prabhat Goswami while Photography is by Paresh Baruah. The main music direction is by Dhijen Konwar. The music director of the Jikir is Hapeja Begar Chodhury. There is a lot of variety in the music viz. jikir, bihu, naam etc. Sound is by Tauhidur Rahman and the dubbing will be done at Jyoti Chitraban by Deepak Dutta.
PermalinkSubmitted by Syed Ahmed Shah on Tue, 15/01/2008 - 15:33
The Syed Sufis of Upper Assam belonged to the orthodox Hanafi school and are far removed from the practices associated with the Mazaar culture. The outfit in which Bishnu Khargaria is seen portraying "Ajan Fakir Saheb" just do not reflect his true personality. The unusually long hair, the red beads on the neck are alien to the sufi tradition kept alive by a few of his descendants in upper Assam.
Anyway, it is a commendable effort and deserves whole hearted appreciation for the noble objective it seeks to achieve.
PermalinkSubmitted by Syed Abdul Quavi on Wed, 29/07/2009 - 14:28
I have seen the film in its premier show at Vandana Cinema. One of the producer Mr. Bani Kalita is from my neighbourhood in Japorigog. The effort put in by his team is to be appreciated in the light that when all the so claim decedents of Ajan Fakir Shaheb are threading the bigotry path and advocating nothing of Sufism, the film is a serious attempt to bridge the gap of a society being polarized by right wing philosophies.
Monimoy Bujarbaruah of Noonmati Jatiya Vidyalay tops the High Schools Leaving Certificate Examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Assam in February and March, 2008.According to the results available, Monimoy is followed by Mayuri Kalita of Soneswar Puthimari Higher Secondary School in Kamrup districtw while the third position goes to Rituraj Hazarika of Ananda Vidya Niketan High School of Nalbari, Jannatul Firdousi from Hatsingimari of Dhubri and Palashjyoti Baruah of Silapathar Don Bosco in Dhemaji district.Altogether 107 candidates have occupied the top ten positions—all they are hailing from Kamrup, Nalbari, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Sonitpur and Barpeta districts....
The Board of Secondary Education, Assam is announcing the results of the Assam High School Leaving Certificate and Assam High Madrassa Examinations, 2008 at 11 in the morning today. According to information, the results of the examination will be available in all disrict headquarters. Moreover, these results are also available in www.indiaresults.com and through short message services.
Tension is simmering along Assam-Arunachal border in Charaideo sub division in Assam as the Arunachal Pardesh police administration stopped a motorcycle rally the by AJYCP on Monday on its way to Bimalapur and Chaipung where the neighbouring state was holding its panchayat polls. The AJYCP leaders have alleged that the Arunachal Pradesh Government was holding panchayat polls in Assam’s territory in the area under Charaideo sub division in Sivasagar district. That is why, the Arunachal police prevented the AJYCP-sponsored motor cycle rally before it reached Bimalapur Charaipung. This has forced an uneasy situation in the area and student leaders burnt poll posters and banners in the...
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One person has died and more than 30 injured in police firing at Krishnai, Goalpara today. The incident occurred when police resorted to open fire while trying to control a clash between Rabha and non-Rabha groups that was arising over a dead body found there. Pix by UB Photos.
The Tarun Gogoi government has achieved its milestones within a brief spell of two years. This is more or less of what several speakers said at a function organized on Sunday at the historic Judges’ Field. Assam Congress president Bhubneswar Kalita, Education minister Ripun Borah, BPP(F) chairman Hagrama Mohilary have all praised the Gogoi government saying it has been success on all fronts.The Tarun Gogoi government has achieved its milestones within a brief spell of two years. This is more or less of what several speakers said at a function organized on Sunday at the historic Judges’ Field. In his address Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the state is marching during his tenure...
Two local residents of Miyaganj block, Unnao district (UP, India) Virendra Singh and Yashwant Rao, had written to Block Development Officer (BDO) of Miyaganj seeking support to conduct the social audit of NREGS. The BDO wrote to every pradhan in this block seeking their cooperation in submitting all documents pertinent to the NREGS. On behalf of all pradhans, the president of the Pradhans' association, had filed a writ petition in the High Court demanding a stay order, which she did get on 22 May. It was this stay order which had spread the perception that the pradhans have obtained a stay against the social audit.However the people's movements conducting the social audit have taken a...
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