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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Yugadrashta: The Visionary<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250 px<br />
| alt = Film poster, with three men in a boat<br />
| caption = ''Yugadrashta'' poster<br />
| director = [[Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta]]<br />
| producer = Swapnali Mahanta<br />
| based_on = [[Pitambar Deva Goswami]]<br />
| story = Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta<br />
| writer = Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta<br />
| starring = Moon Borkotoky<br>Haridev Goswami<br>Guna Mahanta<br />
| music = [[Anurag Saikia]]<br />
| cinematography = Suman Duwarah<br />
| editing = <br />
| studio = <br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = <!-- {{Film date|2012|10|26|df=y}} --><br />
| runtime = <br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Assamese<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Yugadrashta: The Visionary''''' ({{Lang-as|যুগদ্ৰষ্টা}}) is an [[Assamese cinema|Assamese]] [[Assamese language|language]] [[short film]] based on the life of reformer and freedom fighter [[Pitambar Deva Goswami]] starring Moon Borkotoky, directed by [[Director General of Police|DGP]] of Assam Police [[Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta]] and produced by Swapnali Mahanta.<ref name=Reform/><br />
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== {{anchor|Production}}Plot ==<br />
The film begins with the return by boat of Goswami and his secretary-biographer, Gangadhar Hazarika, to his home in [[Majuli]] from EID Majlis in 1956. He was the only [[Satra (Ekasarana Dharma)|Satra]] leader to attend. They discuss the 1914 ordination ceremony of Pitambardev as Sattradhikar of the Garmur Satra, the monastery of a celibate order in Majuli. The ceremony and the heritage of the Satra tradition appear in flashback. They agree that society's rules are not ordained by God, and a person's worth should be judged by their sense of justice.<br />
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Goswami, who reformed his order's celibacy, is portrayed as a man fighting with himself. His most active period was during the 1920s, when he introduced several reforms and opposed the [[United Kingdom|British]] colonial tax structure. Goswami's disagreement with H. W. Phriel, [[deputy commissioner]] of Sivsagar District, at a meeting where he appealed to the public not to pay taxes ended with the commissioner laying his gun at Goswami's feet as a gesture of respect. His attention to the [[Mishing people]] and [[Jalia Kaibarta|Keot/Kaibarta]] is interspersed with his intolerance of racial discrimination. Although Goswami heads a conservative institution, he is undeterred by social castigation as a result of his views on the emancipation of women through education and [[Women in Hinduism#Widowhood and remarriage|widow remarriage]]. His activity in the [[Quit India Movement]] drives Harold Dennehy, Chief Secretary of [[Assam]] in 1943, ordering his arrest and detention outside the state.<br />
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The film flashes back to Goswami opening schools in the [[Mikir Hills]] of [[Karbi Anglong district]], despite failing health, and his introduction of women's theatre and dance. It ends at daybreak, when Goswami spells out his dream of an Assam in which the [[Bodo people|Bodo]], the Mishing, the Keot/Kaibarta, and the [[Muslim]]s live in harmony.<ref name=Reform>{{cite news|last=Das|first=Partha Jyoti|title=Spirit of reform|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=oct2613,12,84,153,1086,723|newspaper=[[The Assam Tribune]]|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191343/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=oct2613,12,84,153,1086,723|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
*Pitambar Deva Goswami - Moon Borkotoky<br />
*Goswami as a child – Aashwas Rag Mahanta<br />
*Sattradhikar, Auniati Sattra – Haridev Goswami<br />
*Gongadhar - Guna Mahanta<br />
*Aldhara - Pradip Bhuyan<br />
*H. W. Phriel - Henry Cottee Jones (Eden)<br />
*Chief Secretary - Rupert Grey <br />
*Niru - Srijani Bhaswa Mahanta<br />
*Ramai - Rubi Mahanta<br />
*Mising Lady - Jyotsna Doley<br />
*Niru's friend - Priyanka Baruah<br />
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==Awards==<br />
[[File:Award ceremony at Delhi International Short Film festival 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta ''(right)'' and Swapnali Mahanta ''(center)'' at the [[Delhi International Film Festival]]]]<br />
*[[61st National Film Awards]]: Anurag Saikia (best music director, non-feature film)<br />
*2nd Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival-13: Best Music Award, Music Director ([[Amrit Pritam]], Anurag Saikia) <br />
*2nd Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-13: Special Festival Mention (Direction), Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta<ref>{{cite web|url=http://miniboxoffice.com/delhishortsinternationalfilmfestival/news.php?id=MTQy|title=Result|website=Delhi Shorts International Film Festival|access-date=3 May 2015}}</ref><br />
* Noida International Film Festival 14: Special Honour, Best Actor (jury), Best Director (jury)<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{official website|http://yugadrashta-com.webs.com/}}[https://archive.today/20131018042754/http://www.yugadrashta.com/]<br />
*{{YouTube|id=eqvuZIxEilI|title=Making of 'Yugadrashta: The Visionary'}}<br />
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[[Category:Majuli]]<br />
[[Category:Indian short films]]<br />
[[Category:Assamese-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:2010s Assamese-language films]]<br />
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