''Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai'' (
Assamese: ''হালধীয়া চৰায়ে বাওধান খায়'', English subtitle: ''The Catastrophe'') is a 1987 Indian
Assamese-language film made by director
Jahnu Barua. It won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
The National Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of se ...
in 1988 and multiple awards at the
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...
in 1988. It was the third full-length feature film made by Barua.
Awards and recognitions
The film received the
National Film Award
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of India for the best film in 1988. ''Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai'' won international awards at film festivals.
It was first shown in
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
.
[ The film received several awards at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1988.]
See also
*Assamese Cinema
Assamese cinema, also known as Jollywood, is an Indian film industry of Assamese-language motion pictures. It is based in Assam, India. The industry was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie '' Joymoti''. Since then the ...
References
External links
*
Page at AllMovie.com containing plot of this movie
Page at National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) website
Assamese-language films
1987 films
1987 drama films
Best Feature Film National Film Award winners
Films set in Assam
Films directed by Jahnu Barua
1980s Assamese-language films
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