Boy Friend - 1961 - Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala

Boy Friend, 1961 Director: Naresh Saigal Music Directors: Shankar-Jaikishan Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra Choreography: Badri Prasad Playback: Mohammed Rafi, Aarti Mukherji, Lata Mangeshkar, Subir Sen Cast: Shammi Kapoor as Madan / Shyam Madhubala as Sangeeta Dharmendra as Inspector Sunil Nishi Kohli as Sushma Dhumal as Sampat Marutirao Parab as Sevakram Amirbai Karnataki as Rajni Singh Shivraj as Thakur Harcharan Singh English translation is included. The subtitles are sometimes rather crude, though, particulary with song lyrics translations. A young lad, separated at a young age from his parents takes on the life of petty crime and ends up in jail. After his release he comes across a friend in a train, and at the friend's request, tracks down his two daughters. He meets them and falls in love with one of them. But the police are on his trail due to a stolen necklace belonging to none other than his birth mother. A fascinating article on Shammi Kapoor and Madhubala: https://www.rediff.com/movies/special... The part of the movie referred to in the article - where Madhubala pretends to sleep but watches Shammi while he dances - begins at 1:24:47. Boy Friend is a remake of 1943's Kismet with Ashok Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti. Kismet is found in this channel here:    • Kismet - 1943 - Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Shanti   The morons that prepared the transfer on which I worked removed maybe 20-25% of the video from the left side, beginning after the opening credits. They also removed a lot from the top and some from bottom to keep the aspect ratio. So, the video, instead of being centered, is offset to the left and people on the left side are frequently cut on half, or missing entirely. While the Ultra version includes all of the video on the left in their version here, they ruined the aspect ratio by chopping off the top and bottom for no good reason. Other versions of the film here also have a lot missing from the left and even more from the top and bottom, leaving ruined original aspect ratios also. Of course, none have made any efforts to improve on the film. Here's the playlist of the 9 songs:    • Boy Friend - 1961 - 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.