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Guwahati, Oct. 27 (PTI): Veteran Assamese actor Nipon Goswami died at a private hospital here on Thursday following a prolonged illness, sources at the medical establishment said. He was 80 and is survived by his son and daughter-in-law. His wife had pre-deceased him in 2015. Born in Tezpur to an actor father and a singer mother, Goswami made his acting debut as a child actor in the Assamese film ‘Piyoli Phukan’. An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Goswami was a classmate of Subhas Ghai, Shatrughan Sinha and Navin Nischol among others. He began his film career as the lead actor of the Assamese movie ‘Sangram’ which was a hit movie and he followed it up by another superhit ‘Dr Bezbarua’. Goswami has acted in 50 Assamese films, the prominent among those being ‘Mukuta’, ‘Sandhya Raag’, ‘Ajoli Nobou’, ‘Aparupa’, ‘Ghar Sangsar’, ‘Kokadeuta Nati aru Hati’, &