Joymoti

The film is set in seventeenth-century Assam and follows Joymoti Konwari, the Ahom princess who was tortured to death for refusing to reveal the hiding place of her husband Gadapani. Borah differs from the 1935 film by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, in which Joymoti's sacrifice for her husband was the main theme. Here the focus falls on her role in a time of grave political instability in the Ahom kingdom, and on her sacrifice for the sake of the kingdom itself.

In Borah's own words, her aim was to present Joymoti as a historic figure, a visionary who through foresight and unflinching determination saved the Ahom kingdom during one of its worst crises. Shooting took place at Ketetong village in Margherita, Assam. The cast is led by Nita Basumatary as Joymoti, with Rohan Doley as Gadadhar Singha, Bishnu Kharghoria as Atan Burhagohain, Toufique Rahman as Laluksula Borphukon and Pranjal Saikia as Lachit Borphukon.

The film was released in 2006 and screened at the 37th International Film Festival of India, at the Asian Film Festival and in Kolkata. In 2021 it was part of the India@75 programme at the 52nd IFFI.

Together with the 1935 original, it gives Assamese cinema two portraits of the same story made seventy years apart.