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Bengali Director Jahar Kanungo
  • DOB : 1946
  • Language : Bengali
  • Gender : Male
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Jahar Kanungo is a Bengali film and documentary Director and Producer. He shot to fame with his 2005 movie Nishhabd, for which he received many laurels as well.

Kanungo was born in 1946 in Chittagong which is in present-day Bangladesh. He is married to Lima Kanungo. He has worked as a travel and wildlife photographer. Kanungo has written travelogues as well as stories and plays for children which have been published in prominent Bengali literary journals. He has researched and made a documentary based on the tiger cult in Sunderbans, the largest delta in the world located in West Bengal. In addition to this, he set up his own company Kanungo Media Pvt. Ltd in 1993.

His movie ‘Nishhabd’, which featured Sandeep Bagchi, Kaushiki Chakraborty Kaushiki was born on October 24 in the year 1980 i >> Read More... in lead roles earned him many awards like Cinefan-Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema for Best Film in Indian Competition Award section in 2005. It was nominated under the New Currents Award section in the Pusan International Film Festival. The film went on to receive a special mention in the Emile Guimet Award section at the Vesoul Asian Film Festival in 2006.

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