Pabitra Kumar Deka (29 January 1940 â€" 5 January 2010) was a
progressive writer, columnist, publisher and editor of monthly
magazine, film critic and script writer of the State of Assam in
India. He is the winner of the Best Film Critic Award in 1988 from the
Eastern India Motion Picture Association. The Government of Assam has
instituted the State Best Film Critic Award in the name of Pabitra
Kumar Deka Award from 2010 after his death.[1][2][3]He was born in the
small town of Haibargaon in the district of Nagaon (Assam) to Shri
Mahendra Nath Deka and Swarnalata Deka. His father was a government
officer in the Agriculture Department. The family settled in Guwahati
in the early 1960s. After his retirement from office, Mahendra Nath
Deka started M.N. Deka Films, a film distribution company, which
released many Assamese and Bengali films in the sixties and
seventies.Pabitra Kumar Deka attended Nagaon Government High School
and earned a degree in Commerce from Nowgong College. During his
college days, he acted in and directed a number of one-act and
full-length plays in Nagaon. In All Assam One-act play competitions
held in Nagaon Natya Mandir, he received best actor and best director
awards for plays like Kudubahot Jui (1958), Fatik Mahajonar Dukan
(1959), Adarsha Homeo hall (1960) and Mara Sutir Jiya Saku (1960), all
written by eminent dramatist and professor Deba Kumar Saikia, who also
received the best dramatist award for the same plays.[citation
needed]During the same period, he began to translate short stories of
foreign writers in Assamese for the magazines Manideep and Nabajug.
His first published work was an Assamese adaptation of Edgar Allan
Poe’s story published in Manideep.
progressive writer, columnist, publisher and editor of monthly
magazine, film critic and script writer of the State of Assam in
India. He is the winner of the Best Film Critic Award in 1988 from the
Eastern India Motion Picture Association. The Government of Assam has
instituted the State Best Film Critic Award in the name of Pabitra
Kumar Deka Award from 2010 after his death.[1][2][3]He was born in the
small town of Haibargaon in the district of Nagaon (Assam) to Shri
Mahendra Nath Deka and Swarnalata Deka. His father was a government
officer in the Agriculture Department. The family settled in Guwahati
in the early 1960s. After his retirement from office, Mahendra Nath
Deka started M.N. Deka Films, a film distribution company, which
released many Assamese and Bengali films in the sixties and
seventies.Pabitra Kumar Deka attended Nagaon Government High School
and earned a degree in Commerce from Nowgong College. During his
college days, he acted in and directed a number of one-act and
full-length plays in Nagaon. In All Assam One-act play competitions
held in Nagaon Natya Mandir, he received best actor and best director
awards for plays like Kudubahot Jui (1958), Fatik Mahajonar Dukan
(1959), Adarsha Homeo hall (1960) and Mara Sutir Jiya Saku (1960), all
written by eminent dramatist and professor Deba Kumar Saikia, who also
received the best dramatist award for the same plays.[citation
needed]During the same period, he began to translate short stories of
foreign writers in Assamese for the magazines Manideep and Nabajug.
His first published work was an Assamese adaptation of Edgar Allan
Poe’s story published in Manideep.
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