Jiban Maran - Bengali - 1938 - K.L. Saigal, Leela Desai
Jiban Maran, Bengali, 1938
Director: Nitin Bose
Music Director: Pankaj Mullick
Lyrics: Ajoy Bhattacharya, Rabindranath Tagore
Playback: K.L. Saigal, Suprava Sarkar
Cast: K.L. Saigal ... Mohan
Leela Desai ... Geeta
Bhanu Bannerjee ... Bijoy
Indu Mukherjee ... Geeta's father
Sailen Choudhury ... Doctor at sanatorium
Amar Mullick ... Radio manager
English subtitles provided.
A famous radio singer Mohan (Saigal) is in love with Geeta (Leela Desai). When he goes to his friend a doctor, TB Specialist, Bijoy (Bhanu) for a check-up, he is found to be in an advance stage of TB. Meanwhile Leela's dominant mother and aunt (Nibhanani and Manorama) had been against the poor Mohan and had set their eyes on same Dr. Bijoy, the son of a family friend. When Mohan comes to know of it, and also his sickness, he decides to walk away from them. He is intercepted by a doctor who ran a sanatorium for TB patients, with some new method of treatment. Geeta couldn't forget Mohan and waited, but in the end she had to relent. Then it was learned that Mohan was alive and cured. What would Bijoy and Geeta now do? Their wedding was the next day, and they have to go ahead with it, the honor of both the families were at stake. Mohan, too, aware of his being exposed, disappears from the sanatorium and is untraceable.
The film had two serious problems, the video and the audio. That about covers everything, eh? The video flickered constantly. I've been able to get that (mostly) under control. The audio is interrupted by static noise frequently, and a lot of that remains after having been worked on.
My great thanks go to Sudipta who provided me with the source for the film. His YouTube channel consisting of classic Bengali film songs can be found here:
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Here's a playlist of the 7 songs and a dance from the film:
• Jiban Maran - Bengali - K.L. Saigal, Leela...
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)
1.) "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 IV
Ownership of Copyright and the Rights of the Owner
17. First owner of copyright.
2.) "-Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright therein
Provided that-
(b) subject to the provisions of clause (a), in the case of a photograph taken, or a painting or portrait drawn, or an engraving or a cinematograph film made, for valuable consideration at the instance of any person, such person shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the first owner of the copyright therein;"
"CHAPTER V Term of Copyright 26.Term of copyright in cinematograph films.
3.) "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:
An Indian film (1) includes all audio and video elements. The "Work For Hire" clause (2) makes it clear that the work done by anyone hired by the producer(s) for the film (actors/actresses, scriptwriters, choreographers, music composers, lyricists, singers, etc.) belongs to the producer(s) and becomes a part of the film copyright. Film copyright in India (3) 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 video is no longer protected by copyright.