O Dule Dule (Assamese)
January 13, 2008 – 9:52 pmI have strong love for Assamese songs and I found this nice video from one of the movies. As mentioned in previous posts, Assamya (the language) can be understood by most Bangla speakers. The video will show how similar Assamese entertainment is to Bangla entertainment. Bengali directors can learn a lot from Assamese entertainers since Bangladeshi entertainment needs a lot of improvement. In the video the selection of the guy and girl models are well done, along with the dances, and the music composition. I invite you to comment after watching the video, enjoy.
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5 Responses to “O Dule Dule (Assamese)”
I am really shocked..Assamese songs really sounds like Bangladeshi songs
By Bloggerking on Jan 14, 2008
Well Assam used to be part of East Bengal before East Bengal became East Pakistan and since Assam is next to Bangladesh Bengali language and culture mixed in with Assamese language and culture.
By Sunny on Jan 14, 2008
Assam used to be part of East Bengal before East Bengal became East Pakistan ?????????????????
Check your history man, we were never a part of Bangladesh, rather Syleht district was part of Assam till 1947.
Regarding the Assamese language, yes its similar to Bangla, because Assamese, Bangla and Oriya has developed from Sanskrit, If you ever visit Orissa, you will be surprised to know that even Oriya is similar to Assamese
By Hrishikesh on Feb 1, 2008
What??? I did check my history, I’m a HISTORY MAJOR, you need to check yours.
“Assam was separated and with parts of Bengal, a separate province of Eastern Bengal and Assam was established, with Dhaka as the capital.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam
By Sunny on Feb 1, 2008
When the British divide d Bengal in 1905 in their scheme to create the province of East Bengal , Assam could not be digested by Bengal as the word ‘Assam’ was deemed to be too important as a brand name for British commercial interest and it is true that Assam was lumped together with the new province as ‘East Bengal and Assam’ and remained so till 1911. After that Assam’s status as ‘Chief Commissionership’ was restored.
This Six Year co-habitation of Assam with East Bengal does not explain Sunny’s ideation of similarities between the languages of today’s Bangladesh and Assam. Actually, if American missionaries like M. Bronson did not come to the rescue of the Assamese language, Bengali speaking Baboos would have succeeded completely in convincing their British masters that Assamese is just a dialect of Bengali and the language would have been killed off. One renown Oriya scholar few years ago read a paper in which he recognised that Assamese is the mother language to Bengali, Oriya and Maitheli. In respect of Sanskrit being the origin of Assamese is negated by the Sarjyapadas/ SorzaaPod, the Buddhist hymns written in Kamrupa (another ancient name of Assam).
I wonder if Dhakaites realise why they say ‘Xaap/Khaap’ for snakes and use Koisil instead of Bolechilo to mean ‘was said’in English? There are many other similar examples readily heard in the vocabulary of rural Bangladesh.
I do not want to write a long essay in this forum. Those who are interested to dig deep, I would like to suggest:
First of all to look into the Buddhist period of Assam and why was this land was known as Odiyan or Oddiyna, Purnagiri, Kamakhya and Srihatta (today Sylhet/Sylot is district of Bangladesh is the remnant of the same Srihatta and the British indeed made this part, a district of Assam and I do not think at all that it was because the British realise that historically it belonged to Assam!). Next ,to find out what relationship Gour, Poundrabardhan, Karnasovarna, Barendra has had with ancient Assam.
My fervent message to all Bangladeshis, especially the new and future generations to be open minded and learn from our respective histories and rekindle the old bonhomie which is greatly needed so that we do not transgress on each other to have any negative impact that can create only enmity.
Dr. M. Hazarika
By Dr. M. Hazarika on Feb 24, 2008