Bees Saal Baad

The main character of the film Biswajeet got the role by chance.This role was supposed to perform by the top Bengali film actor Uttam Kumar,who was the closest friend of the producer Hemanta ,but romantic hero Uttam did not like the character as anti hero and demanded to change the script but Hemanta did not listen to him and recruited another aspiring Bengali actor (who was introduced by Uttam Kumar.....what an irony) Biswajeet...and rest is history,the film was considered as Super Hit.

It's a good thriller film. But the film is an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. C. Doyle.

The movie is a murder mystery Starring Biswajit and Wahida Rahman with Sajjan, Asit Sen, Manmohan Krishna and Madan Puri playing supportive roles. This movie will always be remembered for it's melodious voice of Great Hemant Kumar. Movie is nice and gripping although looses it's plot in showing love story of the lead stars. Acting by then newcomer Biswajit is great. Waheeda Rehman tries to act innocent which sometimes irritates. Support staff specially Sajjan is very good. Music and songs are all time hits. Overall a nice movie

Very atmospheric horror thriller! A man movies into the ancestral mansion where his father and grandfather had been murdered years earlier. Soon he hers the cries of a ghost woman who seems intent on his death!

Bees Saal Baad is very reminiscent of Universal's 1930s horror film or perhaps Val Lewton's moody horrors of the 1940s. Filmed in black and white the whole film has an effectively eerie quality.

Biswajeet and Waheeda Rehman work very well together and the songs are all 1st rate!

Highly recommended!

Vijay returns to his hometown only to be warned to stay away due to a vengeful spirit responsible for killing his ancestors. But Vijay decides to investigate the matter and hires a private detective.

An adaptation of Conon Doyle's Hounds of the Baskerville, Bees Saal baad takes elements from the novel, for one there's no Sherlock Holmes ( that's if you think Jasoos gopichand is an expert detective). Secondly, the focus is on the grandson who inherited a mansion from his grandfather-a scoundrel who raped a village belle - and is hearing the ghost of the village belle, and is romancing another village belle played by Waheeda Rahman. There are classic songs, and light moments in between the atmospheric and eerie parts. It's a well-executed, captiving film with the kind of moodiness that would make Val Lewton proud.

It might be an old black & white film, but modern filmmakers could never make something like this, and would probably put a whole load of gore to compensate a lack of story-telling finesse.