Jahnu Barua

Jahnu Barua was born on 17 October 1952 in Sivasagar, in Assam, into a family of eleven children. A graduate of B. Barooah College in Guwahati, he studied directing at the Film Institute in Pune, was an assistant in Bombay, then a producer of educational programmes for the Indian Space Research Organisation. He made about a dozen feature films in Assamese and a few films in Hindi, chaired the association of Indian directors in 1993 and received the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2015.

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• CinemaThe CatastropheHalodhia Choraye Baodhan KhaiJahnu Barua · 1987Cinema