Santwana Bordoloi | |
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| Born | 1949 or 1950 (age 75–76)[1] |
| Organization | iBeats Private Limited. |
Santwana Bordoloi is an Indian director, actress, radio host and pediatrician fromAssam. Her directorial ventures,Adajya (1996) andMaj Rati Keteki (2017), both won theNational Film Award for Best Assamese Feature Film, despite being released two decades apart.[2] Santwana Bordoloi started her career as an actress, featuring in the popular TV seriesTejaal Ghora, directed by Kulada Kumar Bhattacharyya.
Dr Santwana Bordoloi is a pediatrician who works at Dispur Hospital. In 1996, she made her directorial debut withAdajya (The Flight). The film is based on Indira Goswami’s (Mamoni Raisom Goswami's) novel,Dontal Haatir Uiye Khowa Haoda (The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker), and it won the National Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese, and also was showcased at various international film festivals. She completed the film in about a month while managing her medical practice.[1]
The two-decade gap in her films gave her critics the space to call her a "one-film wonder". However, she came out withMaj Rati Keteki in 2017, which also won an award for Best Assamese Feature Film at the 2017 National Awards.[3] Film starAdil Hussain won Nargis Dutta Award – Special Mention (feature film) at64th National Film Awards for acting in this film.[4][5][6][7][8]