Awards & Winners

Jahnu Barua

Date of Birth 17-October-1952
Place of Birth Sivasagar
(India, Assam, Sivasagar district)
Nationality India
Also know as Akan
Profession Film director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Film Editor, Television producer
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.

Awards by Jahnu Barua

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jahnu Barua.

2002


1994


National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese
Honored for : It\u2019s a Long Way to the Sea
National Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : It\u2019s a Long Way to the Sea

1987


National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Honored for : Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai