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Jhinder Bondi is a 1961 Indian Bengali-language epic period action-adventure film co-written and directed by Tapan Sinha. Produced by Bholanath Roy under his banner B. N. Productions, the film was based on Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's novel of the same name, which itself was adapted from the 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. It stars Uttam Kumar in a triple roles, alongside an ensemble cast of Soumitra Chatterjee, Arundhati Devi, Tarun Kumar, Dilip Roy, Radhamohan Bhattacharya and Sandhya Roy in lead roles. The film plots an ordinary Kolkata living person named Gauri Shankar, who is hired to replace his look-alike Shankar Singh, the prince and would-be king of Jhind state as he is abducted on the eve of his coronation ceremony.