Zahir Raihan

Zahir Raihan, whose name was Mohammad Zahirullah, was born on 19 August 1935 in Majupur, in what is now Feni district. A pupil at the Alia madrasa in Calcutta, where his father taught, he returned to the country in 1947, was a journalist from 1950 and obtained in 1958 a degree in Bengali from the University of Dhaka. He was at the Amtala meeting on 21 February 1952. In 1971, a refugee in Calcutta, he filmed the massacres by the Pakistani army. He disappeared on 30 January 1972 near Mirpur, in Dhaka, while searching for his brother, the writer Shahidullah Kaiser, abducted and killed in December.

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• CinemaGlimpses of LifeJibon Theke NeyaZahir Raihan · 1970Cinema