Mai Baap - Balraj Sahni, Shyama

Mai Baap, 1957 Director: M. Sadiq Music: O.P. Nayyar Lyrics: Anjaan, Qamar Jalalabadi, Jan Nisar Akhtar, I.C. Kapur Choreography: Surya Kumar Playback: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi Cast: Balraj Sahni, Shyama, Nasir Husain, Johnny Walker, Minoo Mumtaz, S.N. Banerjee, Raj Mehra Translation provided. It's somewhat crude, especially with song lyrics. A blind villager and his childhood sweetheart plan on marrying but their lives are turned upside down when a sleazy lottery ticket seller shows up in the village. Our hero buys a ticket and happens to win a huge amount of money. But he has to go to the big city to collect his winnings, and then the film takes off. As much as I like Balraj Sahni, this film really belongs to Johnny Walker. If you don't like him, then you won't like the film. If you think, as I do, that Johnny Walker is far and away the best comic actor to ever come out of India, then you're in for a treat. Almost as great a treat is Minoo Mumtaz getting a lot of screen time and a healthy number of songs and dances. The Dusted Off blog has a full review of the film: https://madhulikaliddle.com/2013/05/0... 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.