Film Festival
Jul 25 2008, Bijoy

Critic-turned-filmmaker Altaf Mazid says condition of the Assam film industry is bad as most of the fimmakers prefer copying Hindi masala movies instead of doing original work.

“Assamese films are plagiarised. The filmmakers are only copying...

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