GUWAHATI, Nov. 1 -- It was a movie opening like no other in Assam: 600 shows across 91 cinemas (including multiplexes), with the first show, on Friday morning, at 4.25am.

And it was an opening like no other for an Assamese film: screenings in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Patna, Ranchi, Dhanbad, Darjeeling, Gangtok, Mysore, Vellore, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Lucknow, Jaipur, Vapi (Gujarat), Indore, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Raniganj, Maldah, Siliguri, Agartala, Dharmanagar, Cooch Behar, Raipur and Nagpur.

The excitement, tinged with ever-present grief, was over the last film of singer-actor Zubeen Garg , Roi Roi Binale (Tears Keep Flowing), which released 42-days after his death in Singapore ...