Bhupen Hazarika– A multifaceted genius, he was a good poet, music composer, singer, actor, journalist, author and film-maker of the very highest repute. He was the only pioneer of Assam.s film industry in the Northeast and has been therefore, rightly hailed as the uncrowned king of North-Eastern India.s cultural world.
Bhupen Hazarika was ranked amongst the leading film-makers of the nation. He was probably the only pioneer who was solely responsible for placing the fledging Assamese cinema on all India and on the world cinema map. He has been the only person in the past 40 years to propagate the better cinema movement and has integrated all the seven north-eastern states, including tribal culture, through the medium of cinema. His remarkable popularity brought him to the legislative Assembly as an Independent member between 1967 to 1972, where he was solely responsible for installing the first state-owned film studio of its kind ever, in India in Guwahati, Assam.
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Here is a collection of some of his rare pics:
Bhupen Hazarika in hi childhood; Credit- bhupenhazarika-news.blogspot.com
Born in Sadiya, Dr Bhupen Hazarika a child prodigy got attention of the great Jyotiprasad Agarwal and sang in his movies travelling to Calcutta with his parents for recording. Credit- bhupenhazarikanews.blogspot.com
The 10 year old Bhupen Hazarika – Already known as a child artists in 1936. This image was published in Abahan in 1937 about the maestro in the making. Credit- bhupenhazarika-news.blogspot.comYoung Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen-Hazarika with brother Jayanta Hazarika. Credit- bhupenhazarika-news.blogspot.com
Bhupen Hazarika with wife Priyam Hazarika. Credit- Facebook
With his legendary brother Jayanta Hazarika whose untimely demise is not only a sad chapter to Bhupen Hazrika but also to every assamese. Credit- Facebook
A very young Bhupen Hazarika. Credit- bhupenhazarika-news.blogspot.comBhupen Hazarika With India’s first prime minister Pt. Jahwarlal. Credit- bhupenhazarika-news.blogspot.com Nehru
Bhupen with Rajiv Gandhi
Bhupen with Kishore Kumar. Credit- FacebookBhupen Hazarika with Mohd. Rafi. Credit- facebookBhupen Hazarika with Lata Mangeshkar. Credit- FacebookBhupen Hazarika with Hartmut Konig (left) at the Berlin in 1972. Credit- Facebook
Saddiq Khan Langa, DR.M.Balamuralikrishna, Dr.Bhupen Hazarika, Pandit Jasraj, Lata Mangeshkar, Hariharan, Asha Bhosle, Jagjit Singh and A.R.Rahman singing the indian national anthem Jana Gana Mana.
Lata Mangeshkar with Bhupen Hazarika.Lata Mangeshkar with Bhupen Hazarika and others.
Bhupen Hazarika With Begali lyricist Pulak Bandopadhyay
