Guwahati, Feb. 14 -- It's not that the issues of the Dhuliya culture of Kamrup and their struggle for existence in the present times have not been a part of films in Assam before. There have been multiple documentaries about it, and of late, fictional narratives around these performers have also made their way onto the big screen, as seen in films like Bhaworiya (2019), directed by Biswajit Kalita. But what's striking in Dhiraj Kashyap's Amateurs (2024) is that he makes his film directly about how this traditional art form is dying in the face of other creatively enhanced and technically sophisticated forms of entertainment. Also, while Bhaworiya (2019) was a story set in contemporary times, Dhiraj Kashyap's film is set in the early eight...