Assamese cinema Assamese cinema Assamese cinema (অসমীয়া: অসমীয়া চলচ্চিত্ৰ), also known as Jollywood cinemas, is cinema in the Assamese language, watched primarily in Assam, India. The industry was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie "Joymoti". Since then Assamese cinema has developed a slow-paced, sensitive style, especially with the movies of Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua. The industry is sometimes called Jollywood, named for Agarwala and his Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio. Despite its long history and its artistic successes, for a state that has always taken its cinema seriously, Assamese cinema has never really managed to break through
Assamese people or any other language of Assam as his/her first language are referred as Assamese people. The indigenous Assamese people traditionally include ethnic groups like Assamese Brahmins (including Ganaks), Koch Rajbongshis, Ahoms, Deoris, Sonowal–Kacharis, Rabhas, Hajongs, Bodo, Mishings, Assamese Kayasthas, Kalitas,Chutias, Keot(Kaibarta), Baro-Bhuyan, Mech Kacharis, Thengal–Kacharis, Tiwas, Sarania Kacharis, Nath, Kumar, Hira, Tai-Phake, Tai-Aiton, Tai-Khamyangs, Tai-Khamti, Tai-Turung, other Tai groups, Moran, Motok, Doms/Nadiyals, Assamese Muslims (particularly Goria, Moria, Deshi communities), Assamese Sikhs, Assamese Christians speaking Assamese or any other tribal dialect of Assam as their mother tongue and indigenous ethnic groups of other neighbouring North-East states. Though there is a political