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Bhupen Hazarika est un Réalisateur, Scénariste et Son Indien né le 8 septembre 1926 à Assam (Inde)

Bhupen Hazarika

Bhupen Hazarika
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Nationalité Inde
Naissance 8 septembre 1926 à Assam (Inde)
Mort 5 novembre 2011 (à 85 ans) à Bombay (Inde)
Récompenses Padma Bhushan, Prix Dadasaheb Phalke, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Padma Vibhushan

Bhupen Hazarika (Assamese: ভূপেন হাজৰিকা) (1926–2011) was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, have become popular among the people of Assam, besides West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975. Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1997), and Padmabhushan (2001), Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), India's highest award in cinema, by the Government of India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.

Biographie

Early life
Hazarika was born on 8 September 1926 to Nilakanta and Shantipriya Hazarika in Sadiya ( শদিয়া ), Assam. His father was originally from Nazira, a town located in Sivasagar district. The eldest of ten children, Bhupen Hazarika (as also his siblings) was exposed to the musical influence of his mother, who exposed him to lullabies and traditional Music of Assam. His father moved to the Bharalumukh region of Guwahati in 1929, in search of better prospects, where Bhupen Hazarika spent his early childhood. In 1932 his father further moved to Dhubri, and in 1935 to Tezpur. It was in Tezpur that Bhupen Hazarika, then 10 years of age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assames Filmmaker and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet, where he sang a Borgeet (the traditional classical Assamese devotional songs written by Srimanta Sankardeva and Sri Sri Madhabdeva), taught by his mother at a public function. In 1936, Bhupen Hazarika accompanied them to Kolkata where he recorded his first song at the Aurora Studio for the Selona Company. His association with the icons of Assamese Culture at Tezpur was the beginning of his artistic growth and credentials. Subsequently, Hazarika sang two songs in Agarwala's film Indramalati (1939): Kaxote Kolosi Loi and Biswo Bijoyi Naujawan at the age of 12. He wrote his first song, Agnijugor Firingoti Moi at the age of 13 and he was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer.


Education and career
He studied at Sonaram High School at Guwahati, Dhubri Government High School and matriculated from Tezpur High School in 1940. He completed his Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and his BA (1944) and MA (1946) in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University. For a brief period he worked at All India Radio, Guwahati when he won a scholarship from Columbia University and set sail for New York in 1949. There he earned a Ph.D. (1952) on his thesis "Proposals for Preparing India's Basic Education to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education".

In New York Bhupen Hazarika befriended Paul Robeson, a prominent civil rights activist, who influenced him in his song Bistirno parore which is based on the imagery and theme of Robeson's Ol' Man River. This song is translated in various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi (by the artist himself), and is still popular. Being inspired from some other foreign ones, he also composed several other songs in Indian languages. He was exposed to the Spiritual, and the multi-lingual version of We are in the Same Boat Brother became a regular feature in his stage performance. At Columbia University, he met Priyamvada Patel, whom he married in 1950. Tez Hazarika, their only child, was born in 1952, and he returned to India in 1953.

His famous songs include (in Assamese):


Bistirno Parore
Moi Eti Jajabor
Ganga Mor Maa
Bimurto Mur Nixati Jen
Manuhe Manuhor Babey
Snehe Aamar Xoto Shrabonor
Gupute Gupute Kimaan Khelim
Buku Hom Hom Kore

IPTA years
Hazarika began close association with the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association soon after returning from the USA in 1953 and became the Secretary of the Reception Committee of the Third All Assam Conference of IPTA, held in Guwahati in 1955.


Professional life
After completing his MA he briefly worked at the All India Radio station at Guwahati before embarking for his doctoral studies at Columbia University. His thesis "DEMYSTIFYING DR. BHUPEN HAZARIKA: envisioning education for India", edited by Tej Hazarika and published by Cool Grove Press will be available in the US in days.

Soon after completing his education, he became a teacher at the Gauhati University.

He was elected the President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1993.


Later life
He met Kalpana Lajmi in the 1970s and they made the film Ek Pal (' at the Internet Movie Database) (1986). Subsequently, Lajmi began assisting him professionally and personally till the end of his life.

In the period after the release of Ek Pal (1986) until his death, Bhupen Hazarika mainly concentrated on Hindi films, most of which were directed by Kalpana Lajmi. Ek Pal (1986), Rudaali (1993) and Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001) are major films this period. Many of his earlier songs were re-written in Hindi and used as played-back songs in these films. These songs tried to cater to the Hindi film milieu and their social activist lyrics were browbeaten into the lowest common denominator.

He served as an MLA (Independent) during 1967-72 in the Assam Legislative Assembly from Nauboicha Constituency.

He contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Guwahati constituency, which he lost to the INC candidate Kirip Chaliha.


Death
Hazarika was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011. He was admitted to the intensive care unit on 30 June 2011. He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011. His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the Brahmaputra river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University. His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people.

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Filmographie de Bhupen Hazarika (12 films)

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Réalisateur

Era Bator Sur
Réalisé par Bhupen Hazarika
Acteurs Phani Sarma, Balraj Sahni, Bishnu Prasad Rabha

The Assam tea gardens are the setting for this love story : a researcher and a flautist fall in love with the same woman. The researcher steps aside because he believes the flautist's art to be indispensable. The film focuses on the tea gardens and the folk music of the workers.

Scénariste

Chingaari
Chingaari (2006)

Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Mithun Chakraborty, Sushmita Sen, Anuj Sawhney, Swini Khara, Ila Arun, Aanjjan Srivastav
Note47% 2.3808852.3808852.3808852.3808852.380885
Basanti (Sushmita Sen) is a prostitute with a child, Titali, working with Ila Arun. Chandan (Anuj Sawhney) is a newly recruited postman. Upon his arrival in the village, he is moved by Basanti's sufferings. The third part of the love triangle is Bhuvan Panda (Mithun Chakraborty), the village priest of the goddess, Kali. He thinks of himself as a god and bends religion as per his will. In the movie, the priest follows some of the aghori rituals and is one of Basanti's regular customers. Bhuvan Panda has a fetish for sadism. Meanwhile Chandan befriends Titali and Basanti and it is here that Basanti discloses that she wants a better life for her daughter, Titali.

Son

Daman
Daman (2001)

Genres Drame
Thèmes La famille, La violence conjugale
Acteurs Raveena Tandon, Sayaji Shinde, Sanjay Suri, Raima Sen, Shaan, Moloya Goswami
Rôle Musicien
Note56% 2.818512.818512.818512.818512.81851
The Saikia family are an extremely wealthy family in Assam. The two sons of the family are Sanjay (Sayaji Shinde) and Sunil Saikia (Sanjay Suri). The latter being the kinder of the two whilst the former is very hot-tempered and has occasional mood swings. The parents decide to get him married to Durga (Raveena Tandon), a lower caste girl from a poor family, thinking she will be able to cope with Sanjay's temper. Sanjay initially refuses to marry Durga, but when his mother threatens to cut him off from the family will he relents. Thus, Durga marries Sanjay and looks forward to her new life. From day one, Durga is subjected to physical and mental harm by her husband. To add insult to injury, he spends their wedding night with a prostitute called Chameli. Durga continues to be tortured by her husband and after a drunken night he rapes her.
Gaja Gamini, 2h35
Réalisé par Maqbool Fida Husain
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Fantasy, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Tanvi Hegde, Shilpa Shirodkar
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note45% 2.266132.266132.266132.266132.26613
The central figure of the film is represented by a mysterious figure called "Gaja Gamini" (Madhuri Dixit), who inspires, arouses, and confuses the common man. "Gaja Gamini" is the inspiration behind Leonardo da Vinci's (Naseeruddin Shah) 'Mona Lisa', Kalidas' poem "Shakuntala", and a photojournalist named Shahrukh's (Shah Rukh Khan) photographs. The mysterious "Gaja Gamini" appears as four characters, one of them being Sangeeta, a blind girl from Banaras at the beginning of time, who inspires village women (Farida Jalal, Shilpa Shirodkar, and Shabana Aazmi) to revolt against a male-dominated system and carve a niche for women forever. Another character is Shakuntala, who is the subject of Kalidas' poem of the same name. Shakuntala incites jealousy in the women and love in the men around her, charming humans and animals alike in the forests of Kerala. "Gaja Gamini" is also Mona Lisa during the Renaissance, the object of painter Leonardo da Vinci's obsession. Finally, Monika, the most confusing sector of the film, is supposed to represent the woman of the New Millennium. Kamdev, the God of Love (Inder Kumar), walks the earth throughout history, attempting to win the love of "Gaja Gamini".
Saaz
Saaz (1997)
, 2h28
Réalisé par Sai Parānjpye
Genres Drame, Musical
Acteurs Shabana Azmi, Raghubir Yadav, Aruna Irani, Zakir Hussain, Zakir Hussain, Ayesha Dharker
Note65% 3.279993.279993.279993.279993.27999
Mansi, the elder sister, has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi regains her identity.
Rudaali
Rudaali (1993)
, 2h8
Genres Drame
Acteurs Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Raj Babbar, Sushmita Mukherjee, Raghubir Yadav
Note73% 3.6755453.6755453.6755453.6755453.675545
The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows as she marries an alcoholic, who leaves her with little hope of a brighter future for herself and her mentally challenged son.
Aparoopa
Aparoopa (1982)
, 2h4
Réalisé par Jahnu Barua
Genres Drame
Acteurs Biju Phukan, Suhasini Mulay, Girish Karnad, Farooq Sheikh, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sushma Seth
Note58% 2.9448052.9448052.9448052.9448052.944805
The story is set in the colonial period in Assam. The film deals with a young woman who has to give up her university education for her arranged marriage with a rich tea-planter. The plantation and its social routine become a prison of boredom for her since her husband completely neglects her for his business. Things get worse when she discovers, outraged, that her marriage was for the sake of wiping off a huge debt owed by her father. She considers herself as having been sold to her husband. Then one day an old classmate, now an army officer, visits them. Depressed, she gets drawn to her ex-lover from whom she seeks fulfillment.
Chameli Memsaab, 2h24
Genres Drame
Acteurs George Baker, Rakhee Gulzar, George Baker, Anil Chatterjee
Rôle Musicien
Note77% 3.8837653.8837653.8837653.8837653.883765
The film is set in a tea garden in Assam, where Berkeley is a British owner, he falls in love with Chameli is local girl who works in the tea estate. Subsequently, they marry, however later he is accused of her murder.
Era Bator Sur
Réalisé par Bhupen Hazarika
Acteurs Phani Sarma, Balraj Sahni, Bishnu Prasad Rabha

The Assam tea gardens are the setting for this love story : a researcher and a flautist fall in love with the same woman. The researcher steps aside because he believes the flautist's art to be indispensable. The film focuses on the tea gardens and the folk music of the workers.