Jamalaye Jibanta Manush
| Jamalaye Jibanta Manush | |
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| Directed by | Prafulla Chakraborty |
| Based on | Jamalaye Jibanta Manush by Dinabandhu Mitra |
| Produced by | Ananta Singh |
Production company | Rajkumari Chitramandir |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Jamalaye Jibanta Manush (transl. An alive man in the abode of Yama) is a 1958 Indian Bengali-language fantasy action comedy film directed by Prafulla Chakraborty and produced by Ananta Singh, member of Chittagong armoury raid. This film, based on the novel of Dinabandhu Mitra of the same name, was released in 1958 under the banner of Rajkumari Chitramandir. It was remade in 1960 as Devanthakudu in Telugu and in Tamil as Naan Kanda Sorgam by C. Pullayya.
In the film, a wealthy girl commits suicide after her father orders his henchmen to murder her boyfriend. The boyfriend enters the afterlife and the realm of hell while still alive, but he manages to depose the god of death Yamraj and to chase him out of hell. Vishnu agrees to restore the boy and his lover back to life, and then returns the young couple to planet Earth.