Jighansa, a Bengali thriller film, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, was released in 1951. It was directed by Ajoy Kar, a famous director of Bengal. Musical scores are done by Hemanta Mukherjee.
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Plot
The movie revolves with the unwanted incedents happened in princly state Ratnagarh. After the murder of the king Chandrakanta, one Dr. Palit (Kamal Mitra) asked for help to one Detective Smarajit Sen (Shisir Batabyal), as a family friend. Detective Sen sent his assistant Bimal to Ratnagarh to investigate and ascertain the security of young Kumar Bahadur, new predecessors of the royal family of the estate. They observed that a mysterious lady Manjusri (Manju De) sing uncanny song in the adjacent water body near the palace. Mr Gupta (Bikash Roy), a suspicious botanist stayed in the neighbourhood also roamed in that locality. It revealed that he was deprived of real property of the royal family and took revenge by killing the members of the family. He used one deaf and dumb porter as a hired killer. Ultimately he has been killed by the detective at the end before he could commit another murder.
Cast
Main cast of the film: Manju Dey, Bikash Roy, Goutam Mukhopadhyay, Kamal Mitra, Kanu Bandyopadhyay, Santosh Sinha, Biren Chattopadhyay, Dhiraj Das, Sisir Batabyal. Kalipada Sarkar, Pannalal Chakraborty, Pushpa Debi, Romola Chowdhuri, Sushama Ghosh.
Adaptation
This was the probably the first film adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes celebrated story, The Hound of the Baskervilles in Bengali. 11 years later a remake was made in Hindi, Bees Saal Baad (1962 film) directed by Biren Nag, produced and musical scores by Hemanta Mukherjee.