Kabuliwala - Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran

Kabuliwala, 1961 Director: Hemen Gupta Music Director: Salil Chowdhary Lyrics: Gulzar, Prem Dhawan Choreographer: Satyanarain Playback: Hemant Kumar, Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Sabita, Usha Mangeshkar Cast: Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran, Sajjan, Sonu, W.M. Khan, Asit Sen, Paul Mahendra, Padma, Sarita Devi, Anwaribai English subtitles included. And thanks to Anu's hard work on improving the original subs, the non-Hindi speakers among us will read subs they can be sure are accurately translated. We are grateful to her for all her hard work. Her blog on (mostly) classic Indian films is found here: https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/ My source got corrupted near the end. For the remainder, a new source was used and, unfortunately, it had already burned in subtitles. So, the final five minutes of the film has subs, whether you want them or not. The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Kabuliwala: Tagore’s story (pub. 1918) of the Pathan tribesman Rehman (Sahni) who journeys from Kabul to Calcutta seemed tailor-made for a naturalist acting challenge. It tells the tale of a seller of spices called Kabuliwala (the man from Kabul) in Calcutta who befriends a little girl because she reminds him of his own daughter. After years in jail for murder, Rehman finds the girl has grown up and realises that his own daughter may have forgotten him as well. Gupta’s film, like Tapan Sinha’s Bengali version (1956), depends mainly on star performances. Here, Sahni’s colorful mannerisms contrast with the static camera, tableau-like shots and extensive dissolves intended to evoke geographic expanse and memory time. The music by Salil Choudhury includes numbers like Hemanta Mukherjee’s Ganga aaye kahan se and one of Manna Dey’s best-known songs Ai mere pyare watan. The fake Persian music with its copious mandolin effects is rather intrusive. I, for one, like that "fake Persian music" quite a lot. TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM: AviSynth for the video editing Audacity for the audio work. Aegisub for the subtitles There's a playlist of the five songs here:    • Kabuliwala- All Songs   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.