Insights

For a film club in Guwahati, a screening calendar must respond to the weather as carefully as it responds to the films. The monsoon can alter transport, venue…

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has gathered filmmakers, critics and curious viewers in a single room to talk about what they have just watched.…

It was an ordinary Tuesday afternoon when our small team loaded a battered wooden crate into the back of a jeep. The crate held a Pathé Baby hand-cranked…

For more than six decades, the Gauhati Cine Club has gathered film lovers, writers and curious minds in the heart of Guwahati to talk about moving pictures.…

A screenplay is more than a set of instructions for actors and technicians. It records the choices, uncertainties and visual thinking that shape a film before…

At Gauhati Cine Club, a monthly screening is more than a film placed on a projector. Each programme brings together language, rights, subtitles, venue…

The untold story of the first Assamese film screened at our club begins with a work made almost three decades before Gauhati Cine Club was founded. Joymoti,…

Gauhati Cine Club organises a special screening of movies directed by club alumni because cinema carries the memory of a community. Since 1962, the club has…

Classic Assamese cinema carries the memory of a region through its language, landscape and social rhythms. Translating its subtitles into English is therefore…

For decades, the only trace of Pahari Gaan, a 1971 Assamese feature, was a water-stained poster above a Nagaon ticket counter. The reels had been lost in a…