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Date of Birth
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17-October-1952
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Place of Birth
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Sivasagar
(India, Assam, Sivasagar district)
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Nationality
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India
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Also know as
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Akan
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Profession
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Film director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Film Editor, Television producer
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Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from Assam who belongs to Tai-Ahom community. He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films, and along with Bhabendra Nath Saikia was one of the pioneers of Assamese Art cinema. He is best known outside Assam for his Hindi film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara, a drama which utilizes the principles of Gandhism for its thematic backstory.
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