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Bhupen Hazarika

1926 - 2011

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Bhupen Hazarika (Assamese: [bʱupɛn ɦazɔɹika] ) (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, artist, editor, filmmaker, professor and politician from Assam, widely known as Sudha Kontho (meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated"). His songs were written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhupen Hazarika has received more than 2,733,898 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Bhupen Hazarika is the 1,637th most popular actor (up from 2,792nd in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from India (up from 395th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bhupen Hazarikas by language

Over the past year Bhupen Hazarika has had the most page views in the with 175,818 views, followed by Assamese (72,366), and Hindi (26,243). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Odia (23.33%), Sanskrit (23.26%), and Egyptian Arabic (22.70%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bhupen Hazarika ranks 1,637 out of 13,578. Before him are Lorne Greene, Jim Kelly, Jean Delannoy, Jaya Bachchan, Anne Archer, and Jo Van Fleet. After him are Elsa Pataky, Pierre Renoir, Nichelle Nichols, Billy Drago, Perry King, and Massimo Girotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Bhupen Hazarika ranks 144. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune, Choi Eun-hee, Ed McBain, Jürgen Moltmann, Jean-Marie Lustiger, and Raul Hilberg. After him are Jambyn Batmönkh, Joshua Fishman, Don Rickles, Marie-Claire Alain, Morton Feldman, and Peter Alexander. Among people deceased in 2011, Bhupen Hazarika ranks 108. Before him are Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Bernard Collomb, Roland Petit, Charles Napier, Marie-France Pisier, and Nancy Wake. After him are Facundo Cabral, Roman Opałka, Arnfinn Bergmann, Võ Chí Công, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and Ken Russell.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhupen Hazarika ranks 277 out of 1,861. Before him are Baji Rao I (1700), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), Jaya Bachchan (1948), and Birbal (1528). After him are Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Hemachandra (1089), and Shakuntala Devi (1929).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Bhupen Hazarika ranks 18. Before him are Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Aamir Khan (1965), Sridevi (1963), and Jaya Bachchan (1948). After him are Savitri (1936), Rajinikanth (1950), Nargis (1929), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Girish Karnad (1938), and Shashi Kapoor (1938).

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Television and Movie Roles

Papeeha
Love paves common ground for a protector (Milind Gunaji) of forests and protector (Veeni Paranjape Joglekar) of the tribes who live there
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Gaja Gamini
A mysterious and beautiful woman, in her various incarnations, inspires artists throughout the ages.
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Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence
The Saikia family are an extremely wealthy family in Assam. The two sons of the family are Sanjay (Sayaji Shinde) and Sunil Saikia (Sanjay Suri). The latter being the kinder of the two whilst the former is very hot-tempered and has occasional mood swings. The parents decide to get him married to Durga (Raveena Tandon), a lower caste girl from a poor family, thinking she will be able to cope with Sanjay's temper. Sanjay initially refuses to marry Durga, but when his mother threatens to cut him off from the family will he relents. Thus, Durga marries Sanjay and looks forward to her new life. From day one, Durga is subjected to physical and mental harm by her husband.
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