Patanga - Nigar Sultana, Shyam, Yakub, Gope

Описание: Patanga, 1949
Director: H.S. Rawail
Music Director: C. Ramchandra
Lyrics: Rajendra Krishan
Playback: Shamshad Begum, Chitalkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohantara Talpade, Shamshad Begum, Chitalkar, Mohammed Rafi
Cast: Nigar Sultana, Shyam, Yakub, Gope, Cuckoo, Ajit, Shyama, Rajendra Nath, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Ramesh Sinha, Mohana, Shashi Kapoor, Vimi, Raj Kishore, Rajendra Kumar

Translation included.

Patanga is a 1949 Indian Bollywood film and was the seventh highest grossing Indian film of the year. The film was directed by H. S. Rawail for Varma Productions. A duet sung against the back drop of WW2, "Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon" and picturised on actor Gope and lead heroine Nigar Sultana became popular. The playback singers for the song were C. Ramchandra, who also composed the music for the film, and Shamshad Begum. The cast included Nigar Sultana, Shyam, Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Shyama, Randhir, Mohana.

An astrologer had predicted that Raja would become a lucky individual and would find his adult life surrounded by vehicles of all types. This prediction comes true when he gets hired as a traffic constable. One day he gets distracted by Rani, a saleswomen, which results in serious accidents, and he gets suspended without pay for one year. He contacts Rani, and together they try to find work in Bollywood movies. They do find success with Producer Natharam Gope, and get some acting roles. Raja has fallen in love with Rani, but she has met with Shyam and both are attracted to each other. This does not auger well with Purnima, Shyam's betrothed, and she decides to prevent them from getting married. Watch as events unfold that will both startle and tickle you.

There's an annoying flicker after the credits until about the 11 minute mark. The film loses audio and is replaced by music between 19:40 and 22:40. It loses audio during the last 2 minutes or so as well, and is replaced by the repeat of an earlier song. This seems to be true for all versions on YouTube so I don't think anything can be done.

TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM:
AviSynth for the video editing
Audacity for the audio work.
Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitles

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/Cop...

INDIAN COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 CHAPTER I Preliminary (f)
"cinematograph film" means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image may be produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and cinematograph shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films.”

"CHAPTER V Term of Copyright 26.Term of copyright in cinematograph films.
In the case of a cinematograph film, copyright shall subsist until sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the film is published."

My words:
Indian film copyright (including video, dialog, music, lyrics, songs) lasts for sixty years and any film and its songs released more than sixty years ago is in the public domain. No extensions, no renewals, no exceptions. This film is no longer protected by copyright.