I want to make movie on my dreams: Jhanu Barua

Soma Chakraborty

New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) Following the footsteps of the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ten times national film award winning director Jahnu Barua wants to make a film based on his dreams.

"Just like Kurosawa, may be someday I will also give shape to my dreams in the form of cinema," says director Jhanu Barua of 'Maine Gandhi ko Nahin Mara' fame.

Kurosawa's 'Dreams' (1990), which was a much critical acclaimed movie, was based on eight of Kurosawa's dreams. The movie dealt with subjects including terrors of childhood, parents who are as Olympian as gods, the seductive nature of death, nuclear annihilation and environmental pollution.

"My dream", Baruah says, "is to make northeast an united and a peaceful region." Though he admits it to be a difficult one, but he says, "my experiences of life has made me realise that nothing is impossible." "I am a dreamer and I considered myself to be a lucky one," he says.

The turmoil through which the northeast is presently going can be ended, feels Barua.

"All the human tragedies which the region is facing at present can be avoided. We should learn from our mistakes and stand together without losing one's identity," says Baruah.

Terming Northeast as the "best socio-cultural" part and the people there as "most humane", the filmmaker says, "leaving behing all the differences, the northeast should compete with the world as one united team."