Lajwanti - Nargis, Balraj Sahni

Описание: Lajwanti, 1958
Director: Narendra Suri
Music: S.D. Burman
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Choreographer: B. Hiralal
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey
Cast: Nargis Dutt, Balraj Sahni, Kumari Naaz, Prithviraj Kapoor, Prabhudayall Radhakrishanan, Mumtaz, Sheela, Leela Mishra, Prabhu Dayal

English translation included. However, no subs for the last minute and a half, but you won't really miss them as it's obvious what's going on.

There are a few places where the film was chemically decomposing. It looks like the film is slightly melting all over the picture. It doesn't happen often and when it happens it's not for very long, but it's beyond my poor powers to fix it.

The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Lajwanti:

Suri’s family movie echoes Andaz (1949): a
husband (Sahni) believes his wife (Nargis) to
be having an affair with an artist friend and
throws her out. In fact, she was having her
portrait painted. When a decade later the two
get together again, she has to win over her
grown-up daughter (Baby Naaz) which she
does only when she’s on the verge of suicide.
Sahni’s naturalism as usual considerably tones
down the emotional pitch.

Anu has a full review of Lajwanti here:

https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/...

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.