To celebrate Bir Lachit Barphukan’s 400th Birth Anniversary, the Assam Government had produced a short film on the great warrior Lachit Barphukan. The film was first screened on November 25, 2022 during the 400th Birthday Anniversary Celebration of Lachit Barphukan that was held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi in the august presence of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi.
Now, to ensure that this film gets a much wider reach, the Assam Government has tied up with Jio Cinema to host this short film on the OTT platform. By doing so, it also becomes the first State in India to use OTT platform to reach the national audience.
In the coming months, Assam Government will produce similar short film on topics such as the World’s largest Bihu Celebration and 200 years of Assam Tea that will be made available in one of India’s top 3 OTT Platforms like JioCinema, HotStar, Prime Video etc.
Speaking on the occassion the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Assam, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma shared that, “The OTT subscriber base in the country is one of the fastest growing in the world. We have close to 45 cr OTT subscribers compared to 15 cr Television sets. We want to show case Assam’s great historical and cultural heritage to this new age audience and in the coming days we plan to leverage some of the successful platforms for this purpose. It is a proud moment for Assam, that a film on Bir Lachit Barphukan is now available in one of the country’s largest OTT platform, JioCinema.”
This is also the first ever Hindi language documentary film on the iconic Assamese warrior.