Poverty provokes Assamese film distributor to commit suicide
By chennaivision at 9 July, 2009, 12:46 pm
Guwahati, Unable to bear the pangs of abject poverty, solitude and frustration Assam’s renowned film distributor Sada Chaudhury committed suicide last night at Panikhaiti, in the outskirts of the city.
The distributer moved to the isolated place about a decade and a half back and led a poverty-stricken life away from the glitz and glamour of the tinsel world.
Unmarried Sada Chaudhury was distributor of some of the great films of Assamese cinema like Man Prajapati, Makaru Maram and Ranga Police.
He was a close associate of Dr Bhupen Hazarika as well as Bollywood’s Dilip Kumar and Mithun Chakravarty.
But as Assam’s film business started dwindling by late eighties and early nineties, Mr Chaudhury had to wrap up the business as people largely stayed away from cinema halls.
”I am shocked to hear the news of his sad demise. What is ironical that what should have been done by Assam Government, he was doing at his own level to preserve the old Assamese movies despite his poverty-stricken existence,” said noted film critic Sibanu Bora.
The Assam government had once given some financial assistance to Mr Chaudhury.
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