Jighansa


Jighansa is a Bengali-language psychological thriller film cinematographed and directed by Ajoy Kar. Produced by Chayanika Chitramandir and Kine Craft Studios, the film is based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel Nishithini Bibhishika, which itself is a Bengali adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It stars Bikash Roy, Biren Chatterjee, Manju Dey and Kamal Mitra in lead roles. It plots Kumar Bahadur, the predecessor of a royal family, who returns to his hometown to look into a rumour related to a haunted spirit.
It was released on 20 April 1951. It had musical scores done by Hemant Kumar.

Plot

The movie revolves around the unwanted incidents that happen in the princely state of Ratnagarh. After the murder of the king Chandrakanta, Dr. Palit asks for help from Detective Smarajit Sen, a family friend. Detective Sen sends his assistant Bimal to Ratnagarh to investigate and ascertain the security of young Kumar Bahadur, the new successor of the royal family of the estate. They observe that a mysterious lady, Manjusri, sings uncanny song in the adjacent water body near the palace. Mr. Gupta, a suspicious botanist, who stays in the neighbourhood also roamed in that locality. It is revealed that he was deprived of real property of the royal family and took revenge by killing the members of the family. He uses a deaf and dumb porter as a hired killer. Ultimately, he is killed by the detective at the end before he could commit another murder.

Cast

This was the first film adaptation of the celebrated Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles in Bengali. 11 years later, a remake was made in Hindi, Bees Saal [Baad (1962 film)|Bees Saal Baad] directed by Biren Nag and produced and musically scored by Hemanta Mukherjee.