Sadanander Mela - Bengali - Chhabi Biswas, Uttam, Suchitra
Sadananader Mela, Bengali, 1954
Director: Sukumar Dasgupta
Music Director: Kalipada Sen
Lyrics: Premendra Mitra
Playback: Pratima Banerjee
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Pahari Sanyal, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Kanu Banerjee, Chhabi Biswas, Tulsi Chakraborty
An English translation is provided.
Tulsi Chakreborty is only at the very beginning where he has a very funny scene with Chhabi Biswas. Although Uttam and Suchitra are an important part of the film, it really belongs to Chhabi Biswas, and to a lesser degree to Pahari Sanyal.
A strange man (Chhabi Biswas) leads several homeless people into living in the vacated mansion of a wealthy man (Pahari Sanyal). At first he seems a bit of a con man, but we soon learn there's much more to him than meets the eye.
From time to time there a lot of noise or static in the audio. It doesn't last all that long. At other times there are such abrupt changes between scenes I decided there's missing parts to the film.
Here are direct links to standalone versions of the two songs:
Hoi Jodi Borolok
• Sadanander Mela - Hoi Jodi Borolok
Nai Jodi Keu Sone
• Sadanander Mela - Nai Jodi Keu Sone
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.