Kismet - 1943 - Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Shanti

Kismet, 1943 Director: Gyan Mukerjee Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep Cast: Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Shanti, Shah Nawaz, Mubarak, Moti, Chandraprabha, V.H. Desai, Baby Kamala The subtitles are "hardcoded" or burned into the video. The lost and found crime drama, had screenplay by Niranjan Pal and the film stars Ashok Kumar, as a pickpocket and trying to be con man who ends up falling in love, with Mumtaz Shanti. He is wrongfully jailed while trying to help his sweetheart but fate (Kismet) comes to his rescue. In between he encounters his enemy's long lost innocent son (also played by Ashok Kumar) who helps him in clearing his name. The film went on to become a major success. At a theater in Calcutta it ran for three years and gave Indian cinema its first superstar, Ashok Kumar. According to the numbers, it has been given the status of All-Time Blockbuster. In the decade of 1940s, this movie made the most money. Its net gross came to Rs.10 million in 1943, which in today's date is equivalent of Rs.632 million. This record was beaten in 1949 by Barsaat. See dustedoff's film review here: http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2010/0... And memsaab's: http://memsaabstory.com/2012/04/23/ki... The raw video is from a tape supplied by Muz,. Thanks! TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM: AviSynth for the video editing Audacity for the audio work. 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.