Delwar Jahan Jhantu

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Delwar Jahan Jhantu (Bengali: দেলোয়ার জাহান ঝন্টু) is a Bangladeshi film director, producer, lyricist, composer, screenwriter, story-writer, film editor, cinematographer, music director and a freedom fighter. His first directorial released was Bonduk, in 1978. He has directed 75 films in more than four decades of his career, which is the highest directorial venture of any single director in Bangladeshi cinema and has written screenplays for more than 325 films. He won the National Film Awards as Best screenplay for the film Goriber Raja.