ঝিন্দের বন্দী (1961)

Anecdotes

Jhinder Bondi is a 1961 Indian Bengali-language epic period action-adventure film co-written and directed by Tapan Sinha. Produced by Bholanath Roy under his banner B. N. Productions, the film was based on Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's novel of the same name, which itself was adapted from the 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. It stars Uttam Kumar in triple roles, alongside an ensemble cast of Soumitra Chatterjee, Arundhati Devi, Tarun Kumar, Dilip Roy, Radhamohan Bhattacharya and Sandhya Roy in lead roles.

Production

The film is based on the novel of Saradindu Bandopadhyay of a same name which he itself rewrite of famous English novel Prisoner of Jenda. For the first time two legendary actor of Bengali cinema Uttam and Soumitra worked together. This is the second work with Tapan Sinha for both the actors. The film shooting held in Rajasthan and also shoot in Bengal, Bihar and Lucknow.

Uttam Kumar played duel role for the second time in his career after Tasher Ghar in 1957. Before starting work on the film, director Tapan Sinha told Uttam to learn ride a horse. Then Uttam used to get up at five in the morning and learning the ride his horse in the field. Seeing him during the shooting, Tapan Sinha felt that this hero is not Uttamkumar, he look like a horse-rider. Also need to learn swordplay for the film.

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