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After her fiancée and father dies, a beautiful young and rich heiress named Sheil (Mala Sinha), decides to live with her late fiancee's mother (Nirupa Roy), but her aunty thinks her son is alive and acts strange - on top of that Sheila keeps seeing a burnt-faced man resembling her late fiancée. Is someone trying to drive her mad?

Biswajeet has starred in two other mystery/suspense films - Bees Sal Baad and Kohra - and Jaal is another one, though as not as well-known as the aforementioned films, which is a shame because it features a good story and atmospheric suspense. The scares are really good, and that's helped largely by Mala Sinha's sharp histrionics. Nirupa Roy is haunting as the woman who thinks her son is alive, and Tarun Bose as her butler is creepy.

Jaal can be slow moving, interspersed with the usual comedic interludes, but the haunting and atmospheric scenes benefit from that. The locations of the beach and the lighthouse lend an eeriness to this good mystery film.

Inspector Shankar (Biswajeet) is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of Sunder Singh (Sujit Kumar), whose ship wrecks on a stormy night. Sunder was off to marry Sheila (Mala Sinha), the daughter of his mother's (Nirupa Roy) childhood friend who had long died. Sheila was raised by her father, who dies of a heart attack when he comes to know of Sunder's death. Sunder's mother decides to take Sheila to live with her. In denial of her son's death, Sunder's mother keeps doing various acts in madness. She keeps serving food for Sunder, talks with his photos, and keeps feeling that her son has returned. Meanwhile Shankar and Sheila fall in love. But in her madness Sunder's mother starts preparations of Sunder's wedding with Sheila. Sunder's face-burnt body is found and the mystery continues whether his death was an accident or a murder.

:::MUST WATCH::: Good treat for Mystery/Suspense/Thriller fans.

Movie is from 1960's and but best part of this movie is that it is able to VELLICATE with it's thrilling and horror plot. Acting performance and movie set's presentation, background music together's create an environment that makes you VELLICATE.