Aai Kot Nai

Assam has long had boundary disputes with most of its north-eastern neighbours, and Nagaland is no exception. In an Assamese village near the Nagaland border lives a young man, Simanta, who loves a Naga girl named Akali.

A Naga miscreant sets the Assamese village on fire. The house of Dharani and Aiti burns down and their infant disappears. Everyone assumes the baby died in the flames. In fact the child has been found on the other side of the border by a childless Naga woman, who takes the baby to her chest with a mother's tenderness.

The film was made under the banner of AAAS Productions Private Limited and produced by Rajen Borah and Manju Borah, with Manju Borah directing. Isaac Thomas Kottukapally composed the music. Jatin Sarma recorded the sound and Phatik Barua was art director. The cast includes Indra Bania and Bishnu Kharghoria.

At the 56th National Film Awards the film received the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for 2008, with a Rajat Kamal and a cash prize of one and a half lakh rupees shared by producer and director. The citation praised its honest look at a burning problem of the north-east and its humane, beautiful treatment that dissolves artificial boundaries. The film has also been shown at several festivals.

In Manju Borah's filmography, Aai Kot Nai came after Laaj (2004) and Joymoti (2006) and was followed by Sarvagunakar Srimanta Sankardeva (2016).