Zahir Raihan

Zahir Raihan
জহির রায়হান
Born	(1935-08-19)19 August 1935 Feni, Bengal, British India
Disappeared	30 January 1972 (aged 36) Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Status	Missing for 52 years, 6 months and 29 days
Alma mater	University of Dhaka
Occupations	Filmmaker novelist writer
Notable work	Stop Genocide
Spouses	Sumita Devi ​ ​ (m. 1961; div. 1968)​ Shuchanda ​ (m. 1968)​
Relatives	Shahidullah Kaiser (brother) Panna Kaiser (sister-in-law) Shomi Kaiser (niece) Amitav Kaiser (nephew)
Awards	full 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]