Director

Zahir Raihan

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 16

TMDB ID: 997501

IMDb ID: nm2513556

Known for: Directing

Born: August 19, 1935

Died: January 30, 1972

Age: 36

Place of birth: Feni District, Bangladeshi

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1959 - 2022

Years active: 64

Wikidata: Q8064678

Also known as

Zaheer Raihan

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Director (7)Assistant Director (1)Story (3)Screenplay (2)Novel (1)Original Story (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Zahir Raihan was a prominent Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is considered to be the greatest filmmaker of Bangladesh. He is most notable for his documentary Stop Genocide, made during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 and Independence Day Award in 1992 by the Government of Bangladesh. Raihan disappeared on 30 January 1972 trying to locate his brother, a notable writer Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army and/or local collaborators during the final days of the liberation war. It is believed that he was killed with many others when armed Bihari collaborators and soldiers of the Pakistan Army who were hiding fired on them when they went to Mirpur, a suburb of the capital city of Dhaka that was one of few strongholds for Pakistani/Bihari collaborators at that time.

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