Eminent artist and Assamese filmmaker Pulak Gogoi’s tryst with canvas and celluloid ended on Saturday when he died at a government facility in Guwahati following a prolonged illness. He was 84. 

He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. Gogoi was suffering from kidney and heart-related ailments and was admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital. A creative person who shaped the path of modern contemporary art in Assam, Gogoi was born at Jorhat and received his education at the Bandra College of Art.