Paper short abstract:

This paper will depict how the chronotope is used to make the visual images of the mythologies and histories of the Bodo community which are used in the poems of the Bodo poet,named Dr. Anil Boro. The film is an Ethno documentary and also a biographical film on the poet.

Paper long abstract:

The film named SANMWKHANGARI SIMANG [THE DREAM THAT LED YOU TO THE SUN] is a biographical documentary film on a poet from the Bodo community of Assam. His name is Dr. Anil Boro.

In this film the protagonist recalls the memories of his childhood and youth to the other character by sitting beside a river bank. He recalls the forest, river and his village which was his birthplace. Here chronotope is used to retell the past in the present time when he is growing older. He has used mythologies and histories of the Bodo community in his poems.

For example, in his one poem he described the war among the Bodo and Naga communities and the migration of the Bodos to near Assam from the Naga region.

I shot a Naga palace in Dimapur which is now broken and preserved under the Archaeological Survey of India. I used the recitation of that poem by the poet and incorporated the shots of that broken palace in the recitation.

Though I was not aware of the term CHRONOTOPE at that time, now I may say that according to the definition of CHRONOTOPE I have used that form in the film perfectly. The images which are created by using the CHRONOTOPE, give messages to the audience about the past history of the Bodos in the present time. At this point,it can be said that it is not just a poem, or film, it depicts something else where TIME plays a big role.