First Assamese Gramophone Record || Prafulla Chandra Barooah || Phulu Phulile || Umananda Episode 2

The golden era of Assamese Recording began from 1924. A composer of Music, singer and a stage performer Prafulla Chandra Barooah recoded the first song published by HMV gramophone Record company in the year of 1924. His father Sangeetacharyya Lakhmiram Barooah, the first exponent of music in Assam in the post Srimanta Sankardev era at Tezpur.

The gramophone record collector cum archivist Umananda Dowerah preserved this unique, rare and only piece of first Assamese gramophone record in his gramophone record museum & reserach centre. The time is drawing nigh for celebration of centenary of publishing of Assamese song over gramophone records.

Umananda Gramophone Record Museum & Research Centre, an unique Assamese gramophone records collection of Umananda Dowerah, the founder-collector and archivist; established the museum and research centre on 2003. With the blessing of Bharat-Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika the permanent museum is opened on 2007 by Manisha Hazarika, the veteran artist.

In this museum almost about 5000 Assamese songs gramophone records preserved and also the dramas of that periods recorded in gramophone records. It includes: The first Assamese song Gramophone Record published in 1924 by Prafulla Chandra Baruah, voice of Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Mitradev Mahanta, Anandiram Das, Priyabala Rabha, Prafullabala Barooah, Girija Baruah, Gunabala Gogoi, Master Bhupen Hazarika, Kamalananda Bhattacharya, Prof. Ravan Nath, Anukul Nath, Charu Bordoloi, Gunada Das, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, Girijabala Bordoloi, Swargajyoti Baruah, Sadhana Baruah, Mamata Baruah, Mukul Baruah, Prabudh Chandra Baruah, Punya Konwar, Gangadhar Borthakur, Kanak Das, Labanyaprabha Devi, Prof Boloram Das, Dhiren Das, Kalpanath Phukan, Nirmal Mazumdar, Tarikuddin Ahmed etc.

There are also a vast collection of Assamese Dramas (Palla) recorded on those decades (1936-1950) by various artists and drama groups. Joymoti, Sonit Kuwari, Jerngar Sati,, Monumoti, Lachit, Beula, Bordoishila, Ajogar Saap, Soumaror Firingoti, Mali-Malini, MLA, Bihuwati, Jayjatra, Maniram Dewan, Piyoli Phukan, Ratani, Srimanta Sankardev and many more which are penned by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Phani Sarma, Ganesh Gogoi, Brajanath Sarma, Prabin Phukan, Nagaon Natya Samiti, Lakhyadhar Choudhury, Kamal Choudhury etc.

Sangeet Visharad (Vocal) and Sangeet Nandan (Vocal) Umananda Dowerah, collected these legends pieces of Assamese culture from 1980 and started a ten years mission from 1993-2003 from different parts of state of Assam. Apart from this Mr. Dowerah is one of the visiting fellow of Vocal music of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Centre of Studies in Performing Arts, Dibrugarh University, A nominated member of Dept. of Culture, Govt. of Assam for approval of State Anthem "O Mur Apunar Desh" and also music teacher of Swami Vivekananda Kendriya Vidyalay, Tiloi, Moran

This video presented by Umananda Dowerah about his collections.


Video Edit: Dipankar Dey


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District Charaideo, Assam (India)
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