Jamshed Khan of ‘Jubilee’ is based on this actor? Whose failed love gave Ashok Kumar a chance to become a star!

April 16, 2023 | 15:17:38

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Viewers are very fond of Amazon Prime’s series ‘Jubilee’. The entire story of the show rests on the love story of Jamshed and Sumitra, which shakes up the film industry which was gaining ground in the 50s. The plot of the show seems to be inspired by a real love story in the Hindi film industry. Let us tell you about that real story

Abuses are a disgusting thing anyway. Even more so if it is addressed to someone’s mother or sister. There is also a psychology of abuses that when a person starts feeling an emotion at such a level, which becomes a difficult task to put into words understandable within the moral limits of the mind, then he quickly abuses. This emotion can be anger, surprise, shock, and even love in the case of friends!

The transformation of Binod Das (Aparshakti Khurana), a superstar Madan Kumar, working in a film studio’s lab, is the same level of surprise and shock where all the understanding of the people associated with the film industry is answered. In Amazon Prime’s show ‘Jubilee’, abuse is given repeatedly with the name of Madan Kumar. So many times that after some time it seems that this abuse is not Madan Kumar’s surname at all! Binod becoming Madan Kumar is the most interesting angle in the story of ‘Jubilee’. Amazon Prime’s show ‘Jubilee’, the discussion of which you will get to see a lot on social media these days. But if the story of this entire show starts from any one point, then it is Jamshed Khan.

Jubilee and Jamshed

The story of ‘Jubilee’ begins with Roy Talkies. Srikant Roy’s (Prasanjit Chatterjee) film studio, which first decides that the name of its next star will be Madan Kumar. And then the search for an actor capable of making Madan Kumar begins. He gets a strong actor in this slot, but here comes a twist in the story.

Roy’s partner in the studio, his wife, and female star Sumitra Kumari (Aditi Roy Hydari) fall in love with the actor. That actor is Jamshed Khan (Nandish Sandhu). In the decade of 1940-50, it cannot be called just a love affair. Then it was a scandal. A scandal that seems to change the entire film industry in the story of ‘Jubilee’. But Madan Kumar changes first. Now in this star image, it is not Jamshed Khan but Binod Das. Another star Jai Khanna (Siddhant Gupta) comes into focus from Jamshed’s story. Nilofar Bi (Vamika Gabbi) comes on the screen after coming out of Jamshed’s story. But this Jamshed himself gets lost in the story.

Reality and Ashok Kumar matching ‘Jubilee’
Vikramaditya Motwane’s show ‘Jubilee’ is based on the Hindi film industry a few years before and a few years after independence. Apart from being a great filmmaker himself, Motwane is also a big film fan. So how come the shades of reality do not come in the story of his show? A part of the story of Madan Kumar aka Binod Das, one of the main characters of ‘Jubilee’, seems to be very inspired by the story of real-life star Ashok Kumar.

Reality and Ashok Kumar matching ‘Jubilee’

Vikramaditya Motwane’s show ‘Jubilee’ is based on the Hindi film industry a few years before and a few years after independence. Apart from being a great filmmaker himself, Motwane is also a big film fan. So how come the shades of reality do not come in the story of his show? A part of the story of Madan Kumar aka Binod Das, one of the main characters of ‘Jubilee’, seems to be very inspired by the story of real-life star Ashok Kumar.

Like the Roy Talkies featured in the show, Bombay Talkies was one of the biggest studios in the film industry at that time. The names of Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, who run the studio, are taken as the pillars of Indian cinema. Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly was a lab assistant in this Bombay Talkies. Himanshu Rai was looking for a new face for his studio. The condition was that he should not be very handsome, but the more simple the better. So that the story of an ‘average’ Indian can be told on screen by making him a hero.