Rajni Basumatary | |
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 Rajni Basumatary at the Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2024 | |
| Born | Rajni Basumatary |
| Alma mater | Handique Girls College |
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| Years active | 2004—present |
| Website | www |
Rajni Basumatary is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor from Assam, India. She debuted as a director in 2014 with the Assamese language drama film Raag. The 2019 Boro language film, Jwlwi: The Seed was written, directed and produced by her. It won several awards including the Assam State Film awards for Best Actor (Female) and Best Film in Other Language category, the Jury’s Special Award at Bengaluru International Film Festival 2020, the Jury’s Special Mention at Guwahati International Film Festival 2019, Prag Cine Awards for Best Film in other than Assamese language and Sailadhar Baruah Film Awards for Best Screenplay. Her third directorial film Gorai Phakhri premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2023. It won Best Film at the 29th Kolkata International Film Festival under the Indian Language Films category. She was awarded Best Director at the 6th Sailadhar Baruah Awards. The film won the Gautama Buddha Award for Best Narrative Feature Film at the Nepal International Film Festival. She was awarded the Director's Vision Award at the 21st Indian Film Festival Stuttgart.
Basumatary has acted in a few highly successful and acclaimed films, including Mary Kom (2014), The Shaukeens (2014), III Smoking Barrels (2017), Goodbye (2022) and Netflix crime-drama series Rana Naidu (2023).