Atul Bordoloi

Assamese playwight and director born in Jorhat; initially a teacher after graduating from Gauhati University (1962). Author of 15 fulllength and about 20 one-act plays in Assamese. Worked as journalist for the daily, Natun Asomiya. First film, Aparajeya, was the unremarkable result of a remarkable filmmaking experiment sponsored by poetplaywright Phani Talukdar and made by a group, Chaturanga, including Gauri Burman and Munin Bayan. Bordoloi’s films, set in deprived milieus, are known mainly for their multi-layered sense of reality achieved by suppressing narrative progression. Best-known film: Kallol.