| Bees Saal Baad | |
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| Directed by | Biren Nag |
| Written by | Devkishen (dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | Dhruva Chatterjee |
| Based on | The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Nishithini Bivishika (novel) by Hemendra Kumar Roy |
| Produced by | Hemant Kumar |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Marshall Braganza |
| Edited by | Keshav Nanda |
| Music by | Hemant Kumar |
Production company | Geetanjali Pictures |
| Distributed by | Geetanjali Pictures |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹30 million[1] |
Bees Saal Baad (transl. Twenty Years Later) is a 1962 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film. It was directed by Biren Nag and produced by Hemant Kumar, who also composed the music and sang some of the songs.[2] The film marks the directorial debut of Biren Nag, and stars Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen.[3]
The film is a loose adaptation of the Bengali hit thriller Jighansa (1951), which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles as well as loosely based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel Nishithini Bivishika.[4] The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit."[1] The film became very popular for the song "Kahin Deep Jale", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and written by Shakeel Badayuni for which they won Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist respectively.[5]
- ^ a b BoxOffice India.com Archived 22 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Bees Saal Baad (1962) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Chatterjee, ed. board Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema. New Delhi: Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 659. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bhimani, Harish (1995). In search of Lata Mangeshkar. New Delhi: Indus. ISBN 978-81-7223-170-5.