Jighansa (1951)

Original title

জিঘাংসা

Directed by

Ajoy Kar

Genre

mystery film

Country

India

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective and his assistant investigate a mysterious crime in rural Bengal. The story follows their efforts to uncover a secret involving a family curse and a dangerous beast.

suspensefulmoodymethodicalatmosphericdarkmysteriousslow-burnforeboding

What happens

Jighansa (Bengali: জিঘাংসা, /dʒɪˈɡʰɑnsɑ/ transl. A Desire to Kill) is a 1951 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 (1902). It stars Shishir Batabyal as the eponymous detective Smarajit Sen and Gautam Mukherjee as his assistant Bimal Ganguly. Biren Chatterjee, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy, Kamal Mitra and Kanu Banerjee star in pivotal roles. It was released on 20 April 1951. It had musical scores done by Hemant Kumar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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