Jahar Kanungo is an Indian film and documentary director and producer in Bengali.[1] He is also a story writer and his debut movie is Nisshabd released in 2005.[2]
Jahar Kanungo was born in 1946 in Chittagong. He has worked in theatre and still photography, as well as writing travelogues, short stories and children's plays, published in leading Bengali literary journals. He has made documentaries and researched and photographed the tiger cult in the Sunderbans. In 1993, Kanungo founded his own company, Kanungo Media Pvt. Ltd. Reaching Silence is his first feature film. He is married to Lima Kanungo.[3]
The film, Nisshabd has won many awards in various film festivals