Jiban Trishna (Bengali: জীবন তৃষ্ণা; English: Thirst for Life) is a 1957 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed and screenplay written by the famous director Asit Sen.
It stars Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, and Bikash Roy in the lead roles.
A poor orphan artist Shakuntala (Suchitra) is wooed by a notorious womanizer Rajnath Samanta(Uttam), only son of a celebrated doctor and millionaire (Pahadi Sanyal).
Parallelly runs another sub-plot of Sabita (Dipti Ray) who stays with her FIL (Jahar Ganguli) and small child (Master Shaibal) - whose husband doesn't keep any contact with her or even his father except occasional letters.
All lyrics are written by Gauriprasanna Mazumder, Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Shyamal Gupta; all music is composed by Bhupen Hazarika This article about an India Bengali film of the 1950s is a stub.