Jighansa
| Jighansa | |
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| Directed by | Ajoy Kar |
| Based on | Nishithini Bibhishika by Hemendra Kumar Roy The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Screenplay by | Ajoy Kar |
| Dialogues by | Manoranjan Ghosh Hiren Nag |
| Story by | Hemendra Kumar Roy |
| Starring | Bikash Roy Biren Chatterjee Kamal Mitra Manju Dey Ramola Chowdhury |
| Cinematography | Ajoy Kar Bimal Mukherjee |
| Edited by | Santosh Ganguly |
| Music by | Hemant Kumar |
Production companies | Choyanika Chitramandir Kine Crafts Studio |
| Distributed by | Kinema Exchange Ltd. |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Jighansa (/dʒɪˈɡʰɑnsɑ/ transl. Heinous) is a Bengali-language psychological thriller film cinematographed and directed by Ajoy Kar. Produced by Chayanika Chitramandir and Kine Craft Studios, the film is based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel Nishithini Bibhishika, which itself is a Bengali adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). It stars Bikash Roy, Biren Chatterjee, Manju Dey and Kamal Mitra in lead roles. It plots Kumar Bahadur, the predecessor of a royal family, who returns to his hometown to look into a rumour related to a haunted spirit.
It was released on 20 April 1951. It had musical scores done by Hemant Kumar.