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An Exhibition of Paintings, based on Jyoti Sangeet

Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla is one of the greatest personalities Assam has ever produced. He was a versatile genius: filmmaker, writer, musician, playwright, revolutionary, thinker… He made the first Assamese film (talkie) in 1935, and it was an aesthetic masterpiece.

His songs, of which there are over three hundred and fifty, and the melodies that he created for his songs, are known as Jyoti Sangeet, since they are acknowledged to form a genre of their own.