Aimee Baruah is an Indian actress, producer, and director. She has won three

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for both feature films and non-feature films.

Early life

Baruah was born in

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to Mala Baruah and Purna Baruah, a police superintendent. She holds a master's degree in sociology. She is currently pursuing her PhD from

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on the films of singer, musician, and filmmaker

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Career

Since starting her career at fourteen, she has starred in over twenty-nine feature-length films, including several National Award-winning films. Her directorial debut was the

Dimasa language The Dimasa language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Dimasa people of the Northeastern Indian states of Assam and Nagaland. The Dimasa language is known to Dimasas as "Grao-Dima" and it is similar to Boro, Kokborok and Garo lang ...

film '' Semkhor''. The film received two National Awards at the

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. She also became the first actress from

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to walk down the red carpet at the

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. Her documentary film, ''Screaming Butterflies'', was bestowed with Silver Conch award at the 17th

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. (MIFF). She was a jury member at the 53rd

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(IFFI) as well as a member of the steering committee at the 54th

(IFFI), held in Goa. She became the first Assamese actress to receive the "Best Actress in a Leading Role" award at the first edition of the Filmfare Awards Assamese 2024. Her latest documentary film, "Birubala: Witch to Padmashree" which chronicles a tribal woman's fight against witchcraft and witch hunting, initially in Goalpara and then throughout Assam, has been honored with the Jury's Special Mention Award at the

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for the year 2022.

Personal life

Aimee Baruah married

Bharatiya Janta Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...

(BJP) politician and Minister

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on 1 October 2011.

Filmography

As an actress

As director

Awards

Controversy

* In order to protest the misrepresentation of their community in '' Semkhor'', Dimasa organizations in the capital of Assam's

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, have petitioned

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to step in and stop the film's screening. * The director of '' Semkhor'', is currently facing legal issues. The ex-President of the All Dimasa Students' Union Mohendra Kemprai filed an FIR against her for allegedly "misrepresenting" Dimasa culture and fostering misconceptions about the tribe which portrays a barbaric image of India in front of the world. * The organizations claimed that an 84-day-old infant died after four days following the shooting of the movie '' Semkhor'' due to extreme exposure to cold and the grave negligence of Baruah." * The Assamese film fraternity believes that her career took a sharp turn upwards after her husband became a Minister in the BJP

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baruah, Aimee Living people People from Nagaon district Actresses from Assam Indian film actresses Actresses in Assamese cinema Assamese-language film directors Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian actresses