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‘Zahir Raihan Film Institute, is going to organize a seminar and film screening on the occasion of the legendary filmmaker and freedom fighter Zahir Raihan’s 88th birth anniversary on August 19 at 4 pm at the Smart Lab of Graphics Art Institute in the capital.
Essayist Rustom Ali Khokon will made the keynote presentation at the event where Anal Raihan, the son of Zahir Raihan, and Nihar Chandra Das, Professor of Graphics Art Institute, will be present.
The event will be presided over by Cultural personality Shanker Shawjal.
Novelist and writer Zahir Raihan was born in Feni in 1935. He was best known for his documentary, Stop Genocide, made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Raihan ventured into films as an assistant with “Jago Hua Savera” (1959). He made his directorial debut with “Kokhono Asheni” in 1960. In 1964, he made Pakistan's first colour movie, “Sangam”, and completed his first cinemascope movie, “Bahana”, the following year. In the 1960s, he directed “Sonar Kajol” (jointly with Kalim Sharafi), “Kancher Deyal”, “Behula”, “Anowara”, “Dui Bhai” and “Jibon Theke Neya” in 1969. Raihan was also an accomplished writer. His publications include “Surjya Grahan”, “Shesh Bikeler Meye”, the epic “Hajar Bochhor Dhore”, “Arek Falgun”, “Borof Gola Nodi”, “Aar Koto Din”, “Koyekti Mrittu” and “Trishna”.
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