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Jamalaye Jibanta Manush (transl. An alive man in the abode of Yama) is a 1958 Indian Bengali-language romantic 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.
Plot
Village boy Siddheswar (alias Sidhu) loves Madhuri, the daughter of Hari. Hari, the rich village headman, will never accept Sidhu as a son-in-law. When they decide to marry, Hari sends some henchmen who almost murder Sidhu. Shocked, Madhuri commits suicide and Sidhu is mistakenly sent to hell while he is still alive. He starts a revolution in hell and heaven, and chases the Hindu God of Death, Yamraj and Chitragupta out of hell with the help of his dead pet bull. He eradicates outdated rules and norms that were framed by Yamraj, and his head clerk Chitragupta, while Bichitragupta assists him. Thereafter, Vishnu and Lakshmi come to Sidhu and Vishnu blesses him and returns him back to Earth with his beloved Madhuri. Hari accepts them gladly.
Cast
Bhanu Banerjee as Sidhu
Basabi Nandi as Madhuri
Chhabi Biswas as Harinarayan
Pahari Sanyal
Kamal Mitra as Yamraj
Tulsi Chakraborty
Jahor Roy as Bichitragupta
Haridhan Mukherjee
Shyam Laha
Nripati Chattopadhyay
JIben Bose as Lalu
Aparna Devi
Ajit Chatterjee
Suvojit Saha as Gamer
References
External links
Jamalaye Jibanta Manush at IMDb