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Swargajyoti Barooah

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Swargajyoti Barooah (Assamese: স্বৰ্গজ্যোতি বৰুৱা) was one of the first film actresses of Assamese Cinema. She acted as a child artist in the first Assamese film Joymati released in 1935. The film was produced and directed by the noted Assamese poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala and starred Aideu Handique and acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma. The film was shot between 1933 and 1935. Swargajyoti Barooah enacted the childhood character of Dalimi in the film.

She died young due to serious health problems. She was married to Tara Prasad Barooah of Golaghat (an eminent lawyer of Assam, University Prize-man, Gold-medalist in English from Calcutta University and an alumnus of Scottish Church who was also one of the few Tamra-Patra recipient freedom fighters from Assam). Though her original surname was Datta she became more identified with her married name of Barooah.

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Filmography of Swargajyoti Barooah (1 films)

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Joymoti
Joymoti (1935)

Directed by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
Genres Biography, Historical
Actors Aideu Handique, Swargajyoti Barooah, Phani Sarma
Rating9% 0.45270250.45270250.45270250.45270250.4527025
Set in 17th-century Assam, the film recounts the sacrifice of Joymoti, an Ahom princess tortured and killed by the Ahom king Borphukan for refusing to betray her husband Gadapani by disclosing his whereabouts. The event is interpreted in contemporary patriotic terms, and calls for a greater harmony between the people of the hills and those of the plains. The hills are represented by the leader Dalimi, a Naga tribeswoman who shelters the fugitive Prince Gadapani.