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Place of Birth: Sivasagar, Assam, India
About Jahnu Barua
- Jahnu Barua (born 1952) is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from Assam He has written and directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films.
- Some of his notable films are Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (Catastrophe), Firingoti (Spark), Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door (It's Long Way to the Sea), Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara (I did not kill Gandhi), Konikar Ramdhenu (Ride on the Rainbow), Baandhon (Waves of Silence), Ajeyo (Invincible) etc.
- Jahnu Barua has been conferred Padma Shri (2003) and Padma Bhushan (2015).
- He served as chairman of the Indian Film Directors' Association in 1993.
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