Babul - Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Manawar Sultana

Описание: Babul, 1950
Director: S.U. Sunny
Music: Naushad
Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni
Playback: Shamshad Begum, Talat Mahmood, Lata Mangeshkar
Cast: Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Manawar Sultana, Amar, A. Shah, H. Pahadi, Tun Tun, Jankidas, Vinod

Many thanks to Muz for supplying the VHS tape from which this was taken. It's from a recording of a British Channel 4 broadcast of the film many years ago and is hard-subbed for the Hindi-language impaired. This was the first film I uploaded for this channel, and it was back when being limited to no more than 15 minutes per video, so it was in parts. Here is this great film released in its complete form.

The Encyclopedia Of India Cinema has this to say about Babul:

A major commercial hit recounting a love triangle in a feudal household between the handsome new postman Ashok (Kumar), Bela (Nargis), the old postman’s vivacious daughter and Usha (Sultana), the haughty daughter of the zamindar. Ashok teaches Usha music until Bela warns her to keep away from her man. Usha withdraws and promises to marry a man of her father’s choice. One of the most formally elaborate romance dramas of 50s Hindi film, Babul’s tragic end forms part of the unusual plot departure of the hero falling in love with a woman who is not the heroine and who, indeed, remains out of sympathy with the audience for the better part of the film. When it turns out that both women have been betrayed by the hero and by their fathers, the film shifts into a completely subjective style, locating the man and two women in three distinct spaces, even separated in one shot by a gigantic wall. In the end, Usha’s wedding procession escalates into a whole sequence of tragedies: Bela, in a deranged fit, falls from a tree and is fatally injured, though she insists that Ashok marry her, which he does, minutes before she dies. Her death is shown by a medieval horseman descending from the skies to receive her, as the smoke from her cremation merges with the clouds.

Here's a playlist of the songs from Babul:
   • Babul - Kisike Dil Mein Rehna Tha  

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.