


In 1958, a Russian version was made by Ivan Pyryev and in 2003, a TV series was made on it. Strictly speaking, Hollywood has not yet made a version of it but The Ediot had been adapted as a film in Japanese by legendary director Akira Kurosawa in 1951. The film was based on the novel The Ediot by the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Top it with Sandhya Mukherjee’s songs and Jay Jayanti becomes truly magical.Īparichito was a 1969 film with an exciting cast of Uttam Kumar, Utpal Dutta, Aparna Sen, Sandhya Roy and Soumitra Chatterjee. While Sound of Music won five Academy Awards, here Uttam Kumar and Aparna Sen also won our hearts hands down in Jay Jayanti. Julie Andrews and Chris Plummer starred Sound of Music was a landmark Hollywood film released in 1965. This film will be a super hit as many times as it will be made. The Hollywood film The Prisoner of Zenda was made in 1937 and again in 1952 and the Bengali version was released in 1961. Jhinder Bandi was based upon a novel by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay which was actually a retelling of the novel Prisoners of Zenda by Anthony Hope. The charismatic Uttam Kumar pitting against the handsome Soumitra is all we ever want. Jhinder Bandi is one of the most well remembered black and white Bengali films. Here are some such films that have been made in both Bengali and in Hollywood – Also, a localized version will have many modifications to suit their audience. Some are retellings and some are inspirations. However, do not expect the story to remain exactly the same. In the passage of time, several times both the sides have acknowledged and taken inspiration from each other and have made films on the same story.

A good story cannot be bound by man-made borders.ĭuring the black and white era of film making, there have been many remarkable tales that have been made into films by both Bengali and Hollywood filmmakers.
