Tansen - K.L. Saigal, Khurshid Begum

Tansen, 1943 Director: Jayant Desai Music Director: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: D.N. Madhok Cast: K.L. Saigal, Khurshid Begum, Mubarak, Nagendra, Kamala Chatterjee, Bhagwandas, Kesari English translation included. The film was the second highest grossing film of 1943, behind Kismet and ahead of Ram Rajya (both in this channel). This what The Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema has to say about Tansen: One of Saigal's best-known later films features him as Tansen, a legendary classical musician at the 16th-C. court of Mughal Emperor Akbar who composed some of the best-known ragas, including the Darbad and the Malhar. Director Desai, who appears after the credits, presents the story as a love fantasy between Tansen and a shepherdess, Tani (Khursheed), and rehearse several legends about Indian music, including its ability to calm animals, cause trees to flower and cure gravely ill people. Having joined Akbar's (Mubarak) court, which separates him from his lover. Tansen has to sing the raga Deepak to cure Akbar's daughter. Since the raga is supposed to have the power to create fire, it almost consumes the singer and he is saved by Tani's singing of the rainmaking raga Megh Malhar. Both songs, Diya jalao and Baraso re, were big hits. One of the film's 13 songs was composed, uncredited, by Bulo C. Rani This is Khursheed's best-known performance, holding her own as a singer alongside the legendary Saigal. Here's the Wikipedia article on the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansen_... The Dances On The Footpath blog has a review of the film here: https://roughinhere.wordpress.com/201... 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.