Guwahati, Aug. 25 -- Amar Deep Gogoi's Collage isn't an easy movie to sit through. It's an epiphany of the troubled past of Assam, where questions of class, identity, autonomy, and security have not only burned holes through the social and religious fabric of the region, but also through the personal lives of both the participants and the non-participants of the struggles.

Filmmaker Amar Deep Gogoi has a lot to say. He wants to comment on the state of affairs, he wants to critique it, and he also wants to empathize with it. That is why Collage, as a film, is both sequential and segmented in structure. It unfolds in a linear progression, yet is divided into distinct parts that reflect different perspectives from the troubled decades in As...