 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.