Aawaz - Rajendra Kumar, Nalini Jaywant

Aawaz, 1956 Director: Zia Sarhadi Music Director: Salil Chowdhury Lyrics: Vishwamitra Adil, Shailendra, Zia Sarhadi, Prem Dhawan Playback: Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Talat Mahmood, Lata Mangeshkar Cast: Rajendra Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Usha Kiran, Zul Vallani, Jagdeep, Nasir Hussain, Murad, Mukri, Anwar Hussain, Leela Chitnis, D.K. Sapru English translation included. After a lot of work the video is mostly okay. But the audio isn't. It was filled with this loud hissing most of the way through. I removed what I could without compromising the dialog and music quality too much, and lowered it during silent passages, but it's always there in the background and sometimes bad for short periods. The Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema says this about Aawaz: Sarhadi’s best-known melodrama drew on Pudovkin and Donskoi-style Soviet realism to tell of an oppressive industrialist (Sapru), his trusted foreman, Bhatnagar (N. Hussain) and the lives of Bhatnagar’s family. The foreman obsessed with his daughter Bela’s (Kiron) marriage, pretends to have a large sum set aside to secure her future. When the father of her fiance, Ashok (R. Kumar), claims a large dowry, Bhatnagar is distraught. He loses his job and dies of the shock. His son Kishen (Velani), who resented that money had allegedly been saved for his sister, now discovers that there is no money and, in a drunken moment, accuses his own wife Jamuna (Jaywant) of having stolen the cash. Desperate to raise the dowry, Jamuna does odd jobs and falls into the clutches of the old industrialist who had sacked her father. The man promises to give her the money in exchange for sex. She takes the money and then commits suicide. The film contains many references to Soviet film styles, including the heavy-handed use of low and high angles, e.g. the shots of the overcoat-wearing Banke (A. Hussain), a figure representing the organised proletariat (esp. in the militant workers’ song Araram tararam duniya ke kaise kaise gam) and the family’s self-appointed protector. The only print currently available has been reconstructed from fragments of original prints. Speaking of which, the same source says the film is 146 minutes long, while this is 122, so much is still missing. The opening credits promise a dance by Helen, but there's no sign of her. Here is a playlist of the songs in the film:    • Aawaz - All Songs   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.