Amidst the cliched representations of the urban world in Indian cinema in post-independence times, where ‘the urban’ is often perceived as the inevitable vice, there are few directors in both mainstream and regional cinema of India who attempted to dwell on a more engaged and critical reading of the newly emerging urban world and subject in Indian contexts. Within the domain of the Assamese cinema, Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua have been the two prolific serious film makers who are noted for such engagement of their films with urbanity. This paper aims to describe, analyze and compare the characteristics of the cinematic projections of the urban life and urban subjectivities in the films of Saikia and Barua.

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筛选城市：巴本德拉·纳特·赛基亚 (Bhabendra Nath Saikia) 和贾努·巴鲁 (Jahnu Barua) 的阿萨姆电影中的城市生活和主观性分析

在独立后印度电影对城市世界的陈词滥调中，“城市”通常被视为不可避免的恶习，印度主流和地区电影中很少有导演试图专注于更投入的以及对印度语境中新兴城市世界和主题的批判性阅读。在阿萨姆电影领域，Bhabendra Nath Saikia 和 Jahnu Barua 是两位多产的严肃电影制片人，他们以对都市风格的电影参与而闻名。本文旨在描述、分析和比较 Saikia 和 Barua 电影中城市生活和城市主体性的电影投影特征。