Bobby Sarma Baruah is an Indian Film maker, Producer and Screenwriter who provides narrative content of socio cultural issues through cinema across North East and Assam. Her debut feature film was awarded best film in spiritual category at the 13thDhaka International Film Festival, with a content exploring the sensitivity and emotional side of women. Her second work of art "Sonar Baran Pakhi", a biopic based on life and time of the legendary folk singer of Assam Late Padmashree Pratima Barua Pandey has been recently completed. As director, producer and scriptwriter, Bobby Sarma Baruah has a number of short films, documentaries, music videos and TV serials on various indigenous folk cultures. She is also an accomplished poet and short story writer in Assamese language.
Early life
Bobby Sarma Baruah’s father was a sculptor, a painter and an artist. Oldest among the three siblings, she grew under the encouragement of her mother and learnt to sing and dance, participating in various cultural competitions. She began with her literary skills since the fifth grade, publishing her poems in local regional news papers and ever since has been continuing with her literary pursuits.
Education
She completed her schooling from Gohpur and during her Higher Secondary days married Mr Basanta Baruah, a businessman and a cultural activist from the same vicinity with whom she later founded her production house. She completed her graduation from B. Borooah College Guwahati, majoring in Education. She then completed her B.Ed Degree and went on to complete her Master Degree in Assamese Literature from Guwahati University. She also completed her Master degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Guwahati University, Assam during this time. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral research for a PhD on influence of folk culture of Assam in Assamese cinema.
Career
Bobby Sarma Baruah began her professional career in media in 2006, starting with making quickies highlighting the Tea Tribes of Assam. She also produced and directed music video films Sontora, Sohoror Godhuli and Sohoror Tita Mitha in 2006-2008. She made a number of documentaries and quickies based on regional Agriculture in 2009-10. She directed a popular T V serial for Doordarshan named Jivan Jatra, various short films like "Waiting for a Call", Deuta and Mirror, a thirteen-episode documentary on folk culture of different ethnic communities of Assam like Puta Pukhurir Bak, Kushan, Dhiniki Dhin Dao, Lagon, Alou Guyti Tolou Guti, Ural and Bishu. In the year 2009, she produced a stage drama Maya, and directed a documentary film Santosh based on the Postal features. She also made quickies on behalf of World Bank in 2012-13. After that there she went on to make a six-episode serial for Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission in 2012-13
Released films
In 2014 she made her debut as a director with the feature film. Her first film Adomya was awarded best film in spiritual category at the 13th Dhaka International Film Festival besides being screened in film festivals of London, Goa, Mumbai, Singapore, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai. She has also served as juror at the prestigious Dhaka International Film Festival and Lucknow Children’s Film Festival, both in 2016. Her second directorial venture work "Sonar Baran Pakhi“ a biopic based on life and time of the legendary folk singer of Assam, Late Padmashree Pratima Barua Pandey has been recently completed.
