Wosobipo (Vol. 2). Karbi Award Winning Documentary Film

Goutam's Bora's 1990 film , Wosobipo - The Cuckoo's Call was a landmark film in the history of North Eastern cinema. The film was the first to be made in Karbi Language. It Narrates the tale of tribal farmers in Karbi Anglong, and their alienation from the new market economy. Bora is said to have done a lot of research for the film. He says that the film reflects the unknown aspects of the Karbi tribe and serve as the document for Karbi language and literature. The film traces the gradual politicization of a native school teacher, Sarthe Ronghang, who moves beyond a romantic and nostalgic sense of his land into an awareness of the regions real contemporary problems. Wosobipo is a significant film coming from this region as it foreshadows through the depiction of lives andstruggle of a small tribe, the land pressure and related issues of identity that would arise in the ethnic realm of Assam. The film won the Indira Gandhi 'Golden Lotus' Award for the best debut film director in 1990 and also the National award for the best background score for the music composer Sher Choudhary. It was the only Indian entry at the Berlin International Film Festival 1991. Wosobipo entered the Manorama Year Book of 2013 and the Association of Hyderabad Film society as one of the best hundred films in the hundred years of Indian Cinema.