Draft:Jiban Mrityu

Jiban Mrityu (transl.Life and Death) is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Hiren Nag. Produced by Santosh Kumar Banerjee, Nirmal Kumar Banerjee, Tapash Kumar Majumder and Shakti Dutta under the banner of B. M. D. Movies Pvt Ltd, the film is based on a short story of the same name by Dr. Biswanath Roy, which itself was inspired from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexamdre Dumas. It stars Uttam Kumar and Supriya Devi in lead roles, while Kamal Mitra, Tarun Kumar, Bankim Ghosh, Mihir Bhattacharya and Subrata Chatterjee play supporting roles. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Gopen Mullick,[1] with lyrics penned by Pulak Bandyopadhyay and Shyamalesh Ghosh. It revolves around Ashok Mukherjee, employed of the cashier of a bank named Citizen's bank, gets arrested after being falsely accused for a theft in the bank. After being released, he comes to know that all happend to him was a conspiracy done by his colleagues. To avenge, he takes up the identity of a Sikh businessman named Shanta Prasad Singh and traps them in his presence of mind.

Jiban Mrityu
Directed byHiren Nag
Based onJiban Mrityu by Dr. Biswanath Roy
Inspired fromThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Screenplay byDr. Biswanath Roy
Hiren Nag
Produced bySantosh Kumar Banerjee
Nirmal Kumar Banerjee
Tapash Kumar Majumder
Shakti Dutta
StarringUttam Kumar
Supriya Devi
Kamal Mitra
Tarun Kumar
Subrata Chatterjee
CinematographyKanai Dey
Edited byBaidyanath Chatterjee
Music byGopen Mullick
Production
company
B. M. D. Movies Pvt Ltd
Distributed byS. R. Films
Release date
14 April 1967
Running time
112 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Jiban Mrityu marks the second collaboration between Uttam Kumar and Hiren Nag after Thana Theke Aschi (1965); and 12th film of Kumar opposite Supriya Devi as the lead pair. It was a super hit at the box office and ran over for 14 weeks in theatres. Eventually it gained a cult status in the history of Bengali cinema and the mannerism of Shanta Prasad portrayed by Uttam Kumar became popular among the masses.

It was remade in Hindi as Jeevan Mrityu (1970)[2] starring Dharmendra and in Tamil as Sange Muzhangu (1972)[3] starring M. G. Ramachandran. The 1998 Bengali film Asol Nakol starring Lokesh Ghosh, had the same plot inspired from Jiban Mrityu.

  1. ^ "Gopen Mallick (IMDb)| Music director of Jiban Mrityu (1967)". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  2. ^ "Jiban Mrityu (1967)". Indiancine.ma. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  3. ^ வி.ராம்ஜி (2023-02-09). "'சிங்' வேடத்தில் எம்ஜிஆர் அசத்திய 'சங்கே முழங்கு!'". காமதேனு (in Tamil). Retrieved 2024-08-28.