Runumi

The film adapts Henrik Ibsen's play The Warriors at Helgeland and sets it in Assam and in what was then the Naga Hills district. Kanaklata Saikia, Neyimuddin Ahmed, Suresh Goswami, Indreshwar Barthakur and Hironmoyee Devi appear in the principal roles.

Goswami directed and produced, with music by Darpa Nath Sarma. Runumi is described as the ninth Assamese language film and, after Joymoti, the second to be shot on location and in the open instead of in a studio.

Although audiences were responding well, the Assam government led by Chief Minister Bishnuram Medhi suddenly banned the film in 1952 and gave no reason, leaving Goswami bankrupt.

After the ban, Goswami's brother-in-law Lakshminath Borthakur took the film to be shown illicitly in tea gardens, and afterwards it lay in a tin trunk at his home. Four decades later his son Amiya Borthakur returned it to Goswami's daughter, Dolly Borpujari, in Guwahati. All thirteen reels were still in their original cans, though in humid Assam several had rusted or cracked, so it is not certain how much survives. Goswami's grandson, the film critic Utpal Borpujari, has been in touch with experts in Mumbai about cleaning the print and transferring it to other formats, with the National Film Archive of India in Pune expected to restore and preserve it. The family has also appealed to the government to explain the ban and to anyone who worked on the film to share their memories and materials.