Zahir Raihan

Zahir Raihan
জহির রায়হান
Born(1935-08-19)19 August 1935
Feni, Bengal, British India He was murdered
Disappeared30 January 1972 (aged 36)
Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
StatusMissing for 52 years, 10 months and 8 days
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • novelist
  • writer
Notable workStop Genocide
Spouses
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    (m. 1961; div. 1968)​
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    (m. 1968)​
Relatives
Awardsfull list

Mohammad Zahirullah (19 August 1935 – disappeared 30 January 1972), known as Zahir Raihan, was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is most notable for his documentary Stop Genocide (1971), made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.[1] He was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 and Independence Day Award in 1992 by the Government of Bangladesh.[2][3]

  1. ^ Khan 2012
  2. ^ একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ [Ekushey Padak winners list] (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Independence Day Award" (PDF). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 September 2016.