New documentary on late Bhupen Hazarika premiered

A documentary connected singer-polymath Bhupen Hazarika premiered connected Sunday (September 7, 2025), a time up of the motorboat of the year-long celebrations to people his commencement centenary.

In the 65-minute film, a first-person relationship changeable successful England successful 1999, the euphony maestro recites immoderate of his “unpublished” poems. The documentary is titled Bhupen da Uncut.

“The footage of the documentary is of vintage quality, fixed the twelvemonth erstwhile it was changeable arsenic a candid camera first-person account. It was filmed during his sojourn to England to enactment successful a taste programme organised by the Assam Medical College Doctors’ alumni group,” the documentary’s producer-director, Bobbeeta Sharma, said.

“In this documentary, Bhupenda, arsenic helium is fondly referred to by all, spoke astatine magnitude astir his childhood, the power of and enactment with taste stalwarts similar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (pioneer of Assamese cinema), his pursuit of higher studies successful New York, however helium met his woman Priyamvada Patel, the dynamics of their relationship, arsenic good arsenic his doctrine and ideology,” she said.

“During those candid moments, Bhupenda also recited a fewer of his poems, immoderate of which we judge person not yet been published,” Ms. Sharma said.

The premiere of the documentary was attended by the precocious Hazarika’s fans, admirers, and household members, including his United States-based lad Tej Hazarika, his woman Candace Hazarika, and their lad Sage Akash Hazarika.

Samar Hazarika, a vocalist and younger member of the euphony maestro, said that the documentary was packed with information, immoderate of which was not publically known earlier.

Chinmoy Sharma, the documentary’s enforcement producer, handled the camera, portion Jimoni Choudhury did the narration script. The originative manager is Ravindra Badgaiyan.

Awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously, the precocious Bhupen Hazarika was calved successful eastbound Assam’s Sadiya connected September 8, 1926. He died connected November 5, 2011.