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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Adajya<br />
| image = Adajya.jpg<br />
| caption = Screenshot<br />
| director = [[Santwana Bardoloi]]<br />
| writer = Santwana Bardoloi<br> [[Indira Goswami]] (novel)<br />
| producer = Santwana Bardoloi<br />
| starring = [[Tom Alter]]<br>Trisha Saikia<br />
| narrator = <br />
| cinematography = [[Mrinal Kanti Das (cinematographer)|Mrinalkanti Das]]<br />
| editing = [[A. Sreekar Prasad]]<br />
| music = <br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1996||}}<br />
| runtime = 93 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Assamese language|Assamese]] <br />
}}<br />
'''''Adajya''''' ({{Translation|The flight}}) is a 1996 Indian [[Assamese language]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Santwana Bardoloi]] based on [[Indira Goswami]]'s 1986 novel ''[[The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker|Dontal Haatir Uiye Khowa Haoda]]'' .<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/waiting-with-hope-1499673117.html|title=Waiting with hope|last=Thakuria|first=Nava|date=10 July 2017|work=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|location=India}}</ref> The film was screened at several international film festivals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenewsmill.com/maj-rati-keteki-revealing-authors-insight/|title=Maj Rati Keteki: Revealing an author's insight|last=Thakuria|first=Nava|work=The News Mill|date=30 May 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The film is set in 1940s [[Assam]]. Three widows struggle to lead dignified lives amid the extreme restrictions mandated by law and custom. The arrival of a young American scholar, a poisonous snakebite, and the theft of ancestral jewelry combine to bring the situation of the young and beautiful widow Giribala to a painful crisis.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pathak|first1=Namrata |last2=Sarma |first2=Dibyajyoti |date=22 June 2022 |title=Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tgJuEAAAQBAJ&dq=Adajya+review&pg=PT188|publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=9781003147015}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Tom Alter]] as Mark Sahib<br />
*Trisha Saikia as Giribala<br />
*[[Bishnu Kharghoria]]<br />
*Triveni Bora<br />
*Bhagirothi<br />
*Nilu Chakrabarty<br />
*Chetana Das<br />
*Indira Das<br />
*Mintu Barua<br />
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==Awards==<br />
;[[44th National Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/44th_nff_1997.pdf|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref><br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese|Best Feature Film in Assamese]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/maj-rati-keteki-a-mirror-to-assamese-society/article22529503.ece|title=Maj Rati Keteki: A mirror to Assamese society|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=27 January 2018|last=Phukan|first=Vikram}}</ref><br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] – Mrinalkanti Das (also for ''Rag Birag'')<br />
*[[National Film Award – Special Mention (feature film)|National Film Award – Special Mention]] – Bhagirothi (also for [[Dolon Roy]] for ''Sanghat'')<br />
;[[International Film Festival of India]]<br />
*Special Jury Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/Back-to-films-after-a-two-decade-hiatus/article16792841.ece|title=Back to films after a two-decade hiatus|work=[[The Hindu]]|author=S. R. Praveen|date=11 December 2016}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0142066|title=Adajya}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061123094815/http://www.3continents.com/3continents/fiche_films.jsp?filmid=126 Adajaya preview]<br />
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{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Assamese}}<br />
{{IFFI Silver Peacock - Special Jury Award and Special Mention|state=collapsed}}<br />
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[[Category:1996 Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1996 romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s Assamese-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Best Assamese Feature Film National Film Award winners]]<br />
[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography National Film Award]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Films about women in India]]<br />
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