Joymoti (1935)

57m
Running Time

March 10, 1935
Release Date

Joymoti (1935)

57m
Running Time

March 10, 1935
Release Date

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Plot.

In the late 17th century, a boy-king ruled the Ahom dynasty of Assam. But the executive power over the whole administration was vested on the Prime Minister. Owing to the presence of a large body of princes, each of whom was a positive material for insurrection, no king could sit on the throne safely. The Prime Minister, therefore, instituted search for the suitors to capture and kill them, or let off after mutilating thereby banning them for succession. The principal target of massacre was Godapani, a man of personal - vigor and energy. But Godapani became aware of The Prime Minister's design and fled to the Naga hills. Unable to trace Godapani, the army led by, one Gathi Hazarika, came upon his wife Joymoti. Gathi inflicted tortures on her to elicit the much sought-after information. She stuck to plea of ignorance, and replied to the increasing tortures by silence and patience. She breathed her last in the midst of torture.

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Cast & Crew.

Aideu Handique

Aideu Handique

Joymati

Phanu Barua

Phanu Barua

Gada Paani

Swargajyoti Barooah

Swargajyoti Barooah

Dalimi

Mohini Rajkumari

Mohini Rajkumari

Actress

Phani Sarma

Phani Sarma

Gathi Hazarika

Jyotiprasad Agarwala

Jyotiprasad Agarwala

Director

Lakshminath Bezbaruah

Lakshminath Bezbaruah

Writer

Bhopal Shankar Mehta

Bhopal Shankar Mehta

Cinematographer

Manabhiram Barua

Manabhiram Barua

Actor

Subha Barowa

Subha Barowa

Spy (Surang Suwa)

Shamshad Begum

Shamshad Begum

Playback Singer

Lalit Mohan Choudhury

Lalit Mohan Choudhury

Banamali Das

Banamali Das

Rajkumari Gohain

Rajkumari Gohain

Prafulla Chandra Barua

Prafulla Chandra Barua

Kamala Prasad Agarwala

Kamala Prasad Agarwala

Pratap Barua

Pratap Barua

Putal Haque

Putal Haque

Rajen Baruah

Rajen Baruah

Shamshul Haque

Shamshul Haque

Rana Barua

Rana Barua

Naren Bardoloi

Naren Bardoloi

Sneha Chandra Barua

Sneha Chandra Barua

Details.

Release Date
March 10, 1935

Original Name
জয়মতী

Status
Released

Running Time
57m

Genres

Wiki.

Joymoti or Joimoti is a 1935 Indian film widely considered to be the first Assamese film ever made. Based on Lakshminath Bezbaroa's play about the 17th-century Ahom princess Joymoti Konwari, the film was produced and directed by the noted Assamese poet, author, and film-maker Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, and starred Aideu Handique and acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma. The film, shot between 1933 and 1935, was released by Chitralekha Movietone on 10 March 1935 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, United States in March 2011.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.

The film was the first Indian talkie to have used Dubbing and Re-recording Technology, and the first to engage with "realism" and politics in Indian cinema. The original print containing entire length of the film was thought to be lost after India's division in 1947. However, in 1995, documentary film director Arnab Jan Deka managed to recover entire footage of the lost film at a Studio in Bombay in intact condition, and reported back the matter to Assam Government apart from writing about this recovery in Assamese daily Dainik Asam and English daily The Assam Express'. Meanwhile, some reels of another remaining print of the film maintained by Hridayananda Agarwala has been restored in part by Altaf Mazid.

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