Pabitra Kumar Deka opened in the 1960s. Deka was one of those people who promoted it in his magazine "Roopkar", to increase its intellectual acceptance and prominence among the classes. Today the Mobile theatre is employing thousands of people in Assam. Deka began to suffer from serious heart related ailments in the early 2000s. He continued to work, often receiving people from the film, stage and media for his advice. In addition to his job for "Sadin", he wrote about the history of world cinema for nearly ten years for "Sambhar", a Sunday supplement published with the daily "Asomiya Pratidin". The writings were
Arnab Jan Deka Arnab Jan Deka Arnab Jan Deka is a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, documentary film director, columnist, TV actor, jurist, river engineer and eco-technocrat. He authored 131 fiction and non-fiction books (two of them being co-authored with British and American authors respectively) and edited 14 more books in English, Assamese, Hindi and Bengali. He was also editor of a journal and a newspaper. India Government's official Academy of Letters Sahitya Academy incorporated his biography as one among the top Indian writers of the 20th Century in the End Century Edition of "Who's Who of Indian Writers 1999". 'NE