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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Jighansa<br />
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| based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]]}}<br />
| director = [[Ajoy Kar]]<br />
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| music = [[Hemant Kumar]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1951}}<br />
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'''''Jighansa''''' is a Bengali thriller film based on Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' released in 1951. It was directed by [[Ajoy Kar]], a famous director of Bengal. Musical scores are done by [[Hemant Kumar]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0231824/|title=Jighansa|last=1951|website=IMDb|access-date=20 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
The movie revolves around the unwanted incidents that happen in the princely state Ratnagarh. After the murder of the king Chandrakanta, Dr. Palit ([[Kamal Mitra]]) asks for help from Detective Smarajit Sen (Shisir Batabyal), a family friend. Detective Sen sends his assistant Bimal (Gautam Mukherjee) to Ratnagarh to investigate and ascertain the security of young Kumar Bahadur (Biren Chattapadhyay), new predecessors of the royal family of the estate. They observe that a mysterious lady, Manjusri ([[Manju Dey]]), sings uncanny song in the adjacent water body near the palace. Mr. Gupta ([[Bikash Roy]]), a suspicious botanist, 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.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Manju Dey]]<br />
* [[Bikash Roy]]<br />
* [[Kamal Mitra]]<br />
* Goutam Mukhopadhyay<br />
* Kanu Bandyopadhyay<br />
* Santosh Sinha<br />
* Biren Chattopadhyay<br />
* Dhiraj Das<br />
* Sisir Batabyal<br />
* Kalipada Sarkar<br />
* Pannalal Chakraborty<br />
* Pushpa Debi<br />
* Romola Chowdhuri<br />
* Sushama Ghosh.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/A-gentleman-actor/article17097172.ece|title=A gentleman actor|last=Ranjay Das Gupta|date=26 January 2017|website=thehindu.com|access-date=27 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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== Adaptation ==<br />
This was the probably 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 musical scores by [[Hemanta Mukherjee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/GEU/info|title=Jighansa (1951)|last=Ajoy Kar|website=Indiacine.ma|access-date=20 February 2017}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:1951 films]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Sherlock Holmes films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Ajoy Kar]]<br />
[[Category:1950s thriller films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian thriller films]]<br />
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