In the 1990s, Nirjhar launched an innovative interior design initiative that significantly influenced the restaurant scene in Dhaka city.
He designed several conceptual restaurants in Dhaka and Chittagong, including Bukhara, Santoor, Bonanza, White Castle and Asparagus.
Notable projects include the British American Tobacco headquarters in Dhaka, Nina Kabbo, and Fera.
Nirjhar is combining his experiences in architecture, film, and music to create EK Nijhar Collaborations[4] (EKNC).
Enamul Karim Nirjhar was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi.
In 2000 he designed the first ever theatre restaurant in Bangladesh called Asparagus[3] where fine dining combined with live performances was quite a new experience for the food lovers of the city.
Other restaurants he designed includes White Castle, Bukhara, Santoor, Hotel Agrabad, We[3] in Dhaka, Chittagong and UK where he tried to put his social observations in the form of profiling and performance.
In 2013 he designed conceptual commercial neighborhood titled 'nina Kabbo' where the poems of 12 prominent poets of Bangla literature was used on different faced of the building for the first time in Bangladesh.
Despite recognizing the industry's fragility and the slim chances of recouping investments, he saved money from his earnings for 18 years to produce his own film.
As the founder of 9 STEPS, Nirjhar is currently working to develop a self-sufficient group of creative, technical, and commercial professionals who can contribute to the future of the film and media industry with a collective vision.