Jhinder Bondi

Jhinder Bondi
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Jhinder Bondi
Directed byTapan Sinha
Written bySaradindu Bandyopadhyay
Screenplay byTapan Sinha
Based onJhinder Bondi
by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope
Produced byBhola Nath Roy
StarringUttam Kumar
Arundhati Devi
Soumitra Chatterjee
CinematographyBimal Mukherjee
Edited bySubodh Roy
Music byAli Akbar Khan
Production
company
B. N. Productions
Release date
  • 9 June 1961 (1961-06-09) (India)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Jhinder Bondi (English: Prisoner of Jhind) is a 1961 Indian Bengali-language historical drama film produced by Bholanath Roy under his banner B.N Productions and directed by Tapan Sinha,[1] starring Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Arundhati Devi and Tarun Kumar in lead roles.[2] Uttam Kumar played a dual role in this film. The film's music was composed by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.[3]

The film was based on a novel of same name ঝিন্দের বন্দী written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay, though the ending has been totally altered from that in the novel, whose base plot was adapted from the 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. The book had already been adapted into English-language films in 1937 and 1952, and later, in 1979. Soumitra Chatterjee is cast, uncharacteristically, in a negative role first time.[4]

  1. ^ FilmiClub. "Jhinder Bandi (1961)". FilmiClub. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Jhinder Bandi | Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Jhinder Bandi". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  4. ^ Agnivo Niyogi. "Jhinder Bondi to Chaar". Retrieved 15 July 2024.