Famous theater actor of Assam Phani Sarma

Posted Date: 24-Oct-2011	Category: Famous Personality
Author: Rex	Member Level: Gold	Points: 20 (Rs 15)

Phani Sarma is the best theater actor of Assam was born on 1909. He was not also played his best role in the theater but also had written a number of dramas for which Phani is still live in Assam theater hearts. Read the complete article for getting more about his biography.

Biography of Phani Sarma

Phani Sarma was one of the famous theatre actor of Assam. He was born in the year 1909. Molan Sarma was the father of Phani who was an excellence in drama along its he was very much famous as a brilliant actor of Ban stage. Phani Sarma had started his carrer in a theatre as a gatekeeper of the women's gallery of the prestigious Ban Stage located at Tezpur.

Phani Sarma regularly went to the Ban Stage with his father and very much attracted by the gigantic acting of some veteran actors including Dr Lalit Mohan Chowdhury, Indreswar Borthakur, Prafulla Borua and few more. He had got the first chance to act on the Ban Stage in the role of Akbar in the drama namely Rana Pratap in the year of 1928. It was a great starting for his theatrical career.

joymati

Phani Sarma also joined the Kohinoor Opera which was the first mobile theatre group of Assam in 1930 was started by Natyacharya Brajanath Sarma. Kohinoor Opera played its dramas from the north bank to the south bank of the Brahmaputra River including Dhubri to Sadiya. A huge spectators came to see Sarma performance there. Apart from this Opera group introduced co-acting on its stages of Assam. For the first time Phani Sarma introduced female actresses In 1931 with the help of Brajanath Sarma when male acting was completely decrease.

Phani Sarma played a valuable role in his first Assamese feature film Joymati directed by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala in 1933, where he played the best role of the historical figure of Gathi Hazarika, the main villain of this film. Sarma directed a feature film namely Siraj along with Bishnu Rabha based upon a famous short story written by Deshapran Lakshmidhar Sarma in 1948. Phani Sarma had also wrote a number of dramas with cultural familiarity for the Assamese people.

Filmography of Phani Sarma

Ito Sito Bahuto (1963)
Shakuntala (1961)
Pioli Phukan (1955)
Siraj (1948)
Indramalati (1939)
Joymati (1935)

Post Comment:

Notify me by email when others post comments to this article.

Do not include your name, "with regards" etc in the comment. Write detailed comment, relevant to the topic.

No HTML formatting and links to other web sites are allowed.

This is a strictly moderated site. Absolutely no spam allowed.

Name:	Sign In to fill automatically.
Email:	(Will not be published, but required to validate comment)
	Type the numbers and letters shown on the left.

Famous theater actor of Assam Phani Sarma

Biography of Phani Sarma

Filmography of Phani Sarma

Post Comment:

Subscribe to Email

Online Members