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 alphabet consonants and the row of sibilants"), depending on the standard spelling of the particular word. Assamese or Asamiya consonant clusters include thirty three pure consonant letters in Assamese alphabet and each letter represents a single sound with an inherent vowel, the short vowel /a /. The first twenty-five consonants letters are called ‘sporxo borno’. These ‘sporxo bornos’ are again divided into five ‘borgos’. Therefore, these twenty-five letters are also called ‘borgio borno’. The Assamese consonants are typically just the consonant's main pronunciation plus the inherent vowel o. The inherent vowel is assumed and not written, thus, names of most letters