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Boomba Ride

Boomba Ride

Original Name:Boomba Ride
English Name:Boomba Ride
Year: 2021
Run Time: 76 min
Language: Mishing, Assamese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: India
Director:Biswajeet Bora
Producer: Luit Kumar Barman, Koushik Hazarika, Biswajeet Bora, Binod Laal Das
Cast:Indrajeet Pegu, Sadagar Dao, Hiranya Pegu, Dipali Pegu
Screenplay:Biswajeet Bora
Cinematographer:Jiten Boro, Atul Sargiyari
Editor:Biswajeet Bora
Sound Designer:Jyoti Chetia
Music Composer:Nayan Mani Barman
Costume Designer:Lopamudra Gogoi Bora
Production Designer:Ashim Saikia
Production Company:Ml Entertainment, Quatermoon Productions

Festivals :

  • IFF India 2021
  • IFF Kerala 2022
  • Kolkata IFF 2022
  • Dhaka IFF 2022

Director’s Selected Filmography :

  • 2020 God on the Balcony
  • 2019 Lakhimi
  • 2018 Raktabeez
  • 2017 Phehujali: The Dawn
  • 2016 Bahniman
  • 2015 Aisa Yeh Jahaanfe

Director’s Biography:

Biswajeet Bora

Biswajeet Bora is an Internationally acclaimed award-winning filmmaker, producer, editor and writer and one of the renowned filmmakers from Northeast India. He worked with internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jahnu Barua for 7 years before making his first Hindi film titled Aisa Yeh Jahaan which was India's first carbon neutral film. Later he forayed into commercial cinema in Assam with Bahniman. His films Raktabeez was also a commercial hit, with his film Phehujali, he got critical acclaim and recognition in various international film festivals. He won the Best Director for the film God On The Balcony (2020) at Kolkata IFF. The film has been also officially selected at various international festivals such as Shanghai IFF, IFF Kerala Etc.

Synopsis:

The film is set beside the bank of the Brahmaputra River that is the life line of many tribes in the state of Assam. It is about a lower primary school where the main struggle of the teachers is to keep the school alive as it has only one student, named Boomba. But a time comes when things did not go as it were expected and while the school was at the verge of its collapse Boomba with his upright wisdom goes on to save his school making all of them realise that what education can do to a society.