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Jiban Maran

1938 film by Nitin Bose

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ23900164 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jiban Maran (Bengali জীবন মরণ, Life and Death) is a social drama film directed by Nitin Bose, made in 1939 in Bengali language and was remade in Hindi as Dushman, and was produced by New Theatres.

Cast

K. L. Saigal as Mohan

Leela Desai as Geeta

Bhanu Bandopadhyay as Dr.

Editorial summary

“Jiban Maran” enters the record as 1938 film by Nitin Bose. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jiban, Maran and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jiban, Maran and film.
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“Jiban Maran” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jiban, Maran and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23900164. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jiban Maran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.