Bhupen Hazarika

Bhupen Hazarika fascinates me because he refused to be just one thing. Singer, songwriter, filmmaker, writer, politician, all rolled into one Assamese voice that carried humanity and brotherhood across borders. I love that he wrote chiefly in Assamese, a regional language, yet his songs traveled into Bengali and Hindi and beyond. That is the rare artist who lifts a local culture onto a national, even universal stage rather than abandoning it for a bigger audience. The nickname Sudha Kantha, the nectar-voiced one, says it all. To me he is proof that rootedness and reach are not opposites but partners.

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Name (English)

Bhupen Hazarika

Name (Japanese)

ブーペン・ハザリカ

Reading

ぶーぺん・はざりか

Born

September 8, 1926 – November 5, 2011

Origin

Assam, India

Occupation

actor / film director / singer / composer / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

University

Cotton University

Awards & achievements

• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award
• Padma Bhushan
• National Film Award for Best Music Direction
• Padma Shri in arts
• Padma Vibhushan
• Fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi

• Official sitehttps://www.bhupenhazarika.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhupen%20Hazarika
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B6%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855128

Tags

• Assam
• actor
• film director
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.