Laila Majnu - 1953 - Shammi Kapoor, Nutan

Описание: Laila Majnu, 1953
Director: K. Amarnath
Music Directors: Ghulam Mohammad, Sardar Malik
Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni
Choreography: Surya Kumar
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Khan Mastana, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Shamshad Begum, Talat Mahmood
Cast: Shammi Kapoor, Nutan, Ulhas, Begum Para, Ratan Kumar, Kammo, Vasti

No translation, sorry. The VHS tape came courtesy of Mrs. Anand, by way of Prof. Surjit Singh. Many thanks to you both. But the tape had lots of problems, perhaps a result of having been played often. At various times there are major dropouts resulting in complete loss of picture. I covered these places up as best I could. The source used had even worse problems, mostly from having blown out the whites. It's so bad sometimes that it often looks like an old and degraded silent film. The other versions here on YouTube have the same problem, but not quite as bad. It is at its worst beginning around the half way point and slowly gets better again towards the end.

Also, it's by those Al Mansoor people and has Arabic subtitles. In addition, they seemed to think it was a good idea to run scrolling advertisements throughout the songs. So I blurred them out as best I could. And to try and make it look a little better, I seemed to think it was a good idea to tint the film. Others might not agree.

Cineplot has a very positive review of the film:

http://cineplot.com/laila-majnu-1953-...

TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM:
AviSynth for the video editing
Audacity for the audio work.

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.