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 Stere publicly acknowledged the global standing and repute earned by Arnab Jan Deka through his monumental works, in a speech delivered before a galaxy of intellectuals and media-persons at Guwahati Press Club. At the same programme held on 28 February 2015, Dr Stere officially launched Arnab Jan Deka's two latest English books "Brahmaputra and Beyond: Linking Assam to the World" and "An Extraordinary Assamese Couple". Poet Jitendra Deka eulogized about him in a poem "Ink and Jan" (published in an e-magazine orunodoi.com) focussing on his multi-hued contributions in areas of extreme opposites like literature and technology in order to propagate