His "Jhinder Bandi" is based on a story by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay, the well-known historical story writer in Bengali literature, although it was based on the English novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope. The actors include Uttam Kumar, Arundhati Devi, Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharji, Tarun Kumar, Dilip Roy, Sandhya Roy. The first film in which Uttam and Soumitra starred together was Sinha's "Jhinder Bandi" in which Soumitra was, for the first time, cast as the villain,"Mayurbahan". He had worked in barely a handful of films until then, aside from starting off as the struggling Apu buffeted by waves of tragedy. The film was a success, and yet did not typecast Soumitra with the permanent mark of a villain, as it might have been apt to do with other actors.