Deep Jwele Jaai

Deep Jwélé Jaai
DVD cover
Directed byAsit Sen
Written byAshutosh Mukherjee
Produced byRakhal Saha
StarringSuchitra Sen
Anil Chatterjee
Vasant Choudhury
CinematographyAnil Gupta
Music byHemant Kumar
Release date
  • 1959 (1959)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Deep Jwele Jaai[1] (transl. To light a lamp) is a 1959 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Asit Sen. The film is based on a Bengali short story titled Nurse Mitra by Ashutosh Mukherjee.[2] It was remade in Hindi in 1969 by Sen himself as Khamoshi.[3][4] Before that it had been remade in Telugu in 1960 as Chivaraku Migiledi. The 1984 Kannada movie "Asha Kirana" starring Shankar Nag has a similar storyline

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  2. ^ "আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা - নিবন্ধ". archives.anandabazar.com. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  3. ^ 6 Old Gold Bengali Movies Inspired Bollywood Remake - Part II. noisebreak.com.
  4. ^ Remakes of Bengali Films Whats new in This Trend. The Times of India.