Basundhara (2009 film)

Basundhara ... the earth
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHiren Bora
Written byHiren Bora
Screenplay byHiren Bora
Sagar Sangam Sarkar
Birinchi Kumar Medhi
Produced byHiren Bora
StarringBishnu Kharghoria
Barsha Rani Bishaya
Saurav Hazarika
Ifftikar Ahmed
Prithiraj Rabha
CinematographyVivek Banerjee
Edited byAshit Basu
Music byTarali Sarma
Production
companies
Surabhi Enterprise (TV and Film Division)
Release dates
  • 13 November 2009 (2009-11-13) (Kolkata)
  • 15 January 2010 (2010-01-15)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageAssamese

Basundhara (English: The Earth) is a 2009 Indian Assamese drama film directed and produced by Hiren Bora, with a screenplay by Sagar Sangam Sarkar, Birinchi Kumar Medhi and Bora himself. It stars Barsha Rani Bishaya in the title role, and Saurav Hazarika, Bishnu Kharghoria, Ifftikar Ahmed, and Prithiraj Rabha in other major roles. The film deals with a pressing contemporary ecological issue of human-elephant conflict in the region of Assam.

Basundhara won the Best Feature Film in Assamese award in the 57th National Film Awards for 2009.[1]

  1. ^ "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 112–113. Retrieved 16 January 2013.