Bees Saal Baad (1962 film)

Bees Saal Baad (transl. Twenty Years Later) is a 1962 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film. It was directed by Biren Nag and produced by Hemant Kumar, who also composed the music and sang some of the songs. The film marks the directorial debut of Biren Nag, and stars Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen.

This article is about 1962 psychological thriller film. For 1989 horror film, see Bees Saal Baad (1989 film).

Bees Saal Baad
Directed byBiren Nag
Written byDevkishen (dialogue)
Screenplay byDhruva Chatterjee
Based onThe Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Nishithini Bivishika (novel) by Hemendra Kumar Roy
Produced byHemant Kumar
Starring
CinematographyMarshall Braganza
Edited byKeshav Nanda
Music byHemant Kumar
Production
company
Geetanjali Pictures
Distributed byGeetanjali Pictures
Release date
  • 1 January 1962 (1962-01-01)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹30 million

The film is a loose adaptation of the Bengali hit thriller Jighansa (1951), which was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles as well as loosely based on Hemendra Kumar Roy's novel Nishithini Bivishika. The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit." The film became very popular for the song "Kahin Deep Jale", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and written by Shakeel Badayuni for which they won Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist respectively.

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