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Emotional scenes unfolded across Assam on Friday as videos surfaced showing fans paying heartfelt tributes to late singer-actor Zubeen Garg inside packed cinema halls during the release of his final film ‘Roi Roi Binale’. At Anuradha Cinema in Guwahati, where the first show, first row, first seat was dedicated to Garg, fans cheered, clapped, and shouted “Zubeenda Amar Haok!” (Long live Zubeenda) before the screening began. Similar scenes were reported from Dhemaji, where videos showed Garg’s portrait placed inside the hall, surrounded by flowers, as fans stood in silence and later broke into chants celebrating his legacy. The massive outpouring of grief and admiration comes as ‘Roi Roi Binale’, Garg’s final on-screen appearance, opened to full houses across Assam, with all shows sold out for the next week. The film, in which Garg plays a blind musician, has stirred deep emotions among fans who see it as both a cinematic farewell and a reflection of his life’s journey. With tickets for all shows for the next week sold out, Garg’s musical is expected to break all past records and create new milestones for Assamese cinema in the future. With massive emotional outpouring for the release, exhibitors had increased the number of shows, and some hall owners decided to project seven shows of the film in a day, starting from as early as 4.45 am and the last show at around midnight, which will end at around 2.30 am. ZUBEEN GARG’S LAST FILM – ‘ROI ROI BINALE’ The film revolves around the life of a musician and his struggle. The trailer showed that the musician was lying senseless on the sea beach, and one person was trying to wake him up, a startling coincidence with his death. The celebrated singer died under mysterious circumstances in Singapore on September 19 while swimming in the sea. After the release of the trailer, there was an outpouring of emotional posts, and netizens questioned whether Garg could foresee his end. “The sea is really vast. Will I be able to swim?”. The dialogue in the trailer also hit the viewers emotionally. Garg, who never shied away from declaring innumerable times that he was a ‘social-leftist’, is seen uttering a line in the 1:54-minute clip, “I am an artist. And an artist should have only one politics, to stand with the masses, not with the monarch!” The singer had publicly proclaimed that he is a follower of Che Guevara, Charlie Chaplin and Bishnu Prasad Rava, all belonging to the communist school of ideology. ‘Roi Roi Binale’ was one of Garg’s hit songs from the 90s, and he had termed it as the “darkest” number written by him. Garg is also the producer of the Rajesh Bhuyan-directed 146-minute-long film ‘Roi Roi Binale’ along with his wife Garima and Shyamantak Gautam. In the last three weeks, the film’s trailer, title track and a few other songs were released. These have been cumulatively viewed by more than one crore people on YouTube. The film, which will be projected by all the content providers like UFO, Cube and KSS, will also be released in some cities of India where no Assamese cinema has seen the light of the day earlier. ALSO READ | Vishal Dadlani Sings For Late Singer Zubeen Garg At Itanagar Concert
