Jighansa is a Bengali thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles released on 20 April 1951.
After the murder of the king Chandrakanta, Dr. Palit asks for help from Detective Smarajit Sen, a family friend.
Detective Sen sends his assistant Bimal to Ratnagarh to investigate and ascertain the security of young Kumar Bahadur, the new predecessor of the royal family of the estate.
They observe that a mysterious lady, Manjusri, sings uncanny song in the adjacent water body near the palace.
[4] 11 years later, a remake was made in Hindi, Bees Saal Baad directed by Biren Nag and produced and musical scores by Hemanta Mukherjee.