Ajeyo

In 1946, a short time before independence and partition, Gojen Keot lives with his grandmother in a village in Assam. He is honest and quick-tempered, makes a living from odd jobs and believes in Gandhi and in the promise that independence will end injustice. He is haunted by an earlier mistake as a young participant in the freedom movement, when he failed to deliver a note to marching protesters and two fighters died.

Most of the film follows his defiance of the richest man in town, who sees the coming partition as a chance to seize land. Gojen also fights caste restrictions and child marriage. He helps Joba, a Brahmin girl widowed at eighteen, to elope with the freedom fighter Madan Sharma against her father's wishes. He teaches Hasina, a Muslim girl, and later marries her and leaves the village.

The story then jumps to contemporary Assam, where Gojen's granddaughter, a senior police officer, carries on his fight against the same social evils.

The film is based on the novel Ashirbador Rong by Arun Sharma, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997, and was adapted for the screen by Barua himself. One notable change is that the grandchild who continues Gojen's work is a granddaughter, whereas in the novel it is a grandson. The muhurat was held in Guwahati on 30 November 2012, and principal shooting began on 4 January 2013 near Dhola in Sadiya, continuing in Tinsukia. Lead actor Rupam Chetia trained for four months before the shoot. Shankar Lall Goenka produced, and the cast includes Jupitora Bhuyan, Munmi Kalita, Kopil Bora and Rimpi Das.

Ajeyo was released on 3 January 2014. It won Best Feature Film in Assamese at the 61st National Film Awards and Best Film at the 2014 Prag Cine Awards.

It added to Barua's reputation as a director of humane, literary dramas, and helped keep the novel's themes of reform and conscience in public view.