Jahnru Barua:
Member, Award winning film director from Assam, India
Jahnru Barua (born in Assam) graduated in Science from Guwahati University with a Diploma in Cinema (Film Direction) from Film & TV Institute India, Pune. He worked as a television producer in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under Satellite Instructional Television Expert (SITE) scheme and made several educational television science programmes for rural school children. He produced and directed many short films before stepping into making feature films.
Committed to social cause, Jahnu Barua has so far made 10 feature films. His films carry strong social messages
based on the traditional Indian social values.
All his films have been nationally and internationally acclaimed.
Nine times National Award winner, Jahnu Barua got major national as well as international recognition through his third film `Halodhia Charaye Baodhan Khai’
(The Catastrophe) that won the National Award for the Best Film (Golden Lotus) in 1988 and several international recognitions including the Grand Prix Silver Leopard and World Ecumenical Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Best Film at Amien International Film Festival, and Best of Asia at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Another notable film `Hkhagoroloi Bohudoor
’ (It’s a Long Way to the Sea) also won the National Award for the Best Director (Golden Lotus) in 1995, and 15 international awards including World Peace Prize at
Chicago International Film Festival, and Best Director at the International Film Festival of Independent Film Makers at Brussels,
apart from being invited to as many as 42 prestigious film festivals world wide in a span of two years.
His latest film `Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara’ (Hindi) is contemporarily one of the most critically acclaimed films. Apart from film making, Jahnu Barua is actively involved in many organizations dealing with youth, women and children, film society movement, social awareness programmes, physically handicapped children, juvenile children, environment and art and culture.
In 2003, he was conferred the Padma Shri
by the President of India and the Kamal Kumari National Award for Culture in 2004.
