Jighansa is a Bengali thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles released on 20 April 1951. It was directed by Ajoy Kar and musical scores are done by Hemant Kumar.
Plot
The movie revolves around the unwanted incidents that happen in the princely state 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, new predecessors 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, 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
Manju Dey as Manjusri
Bikash Roy as Mr. Gupta
Kamal Mitra as Dr. Palit
Sisir Batabyal as Smarajit Sen
Biren Chattopadhyay as Kumar Bahadur
Goutam Mukhopadhyay as Bimal
Kanu Bandyopadhyay
Santosh Sinha
Dhiraj Das
Kalipada Sarkar
Pannalal Chakraborty
Pushpa Debi
Romola Chowdhuri
Sushama Ghosh
Adaptation
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 directed by Biren Nag and produced and musical scores by Hemanta Mukherjee.