Saat Pake Bandha - Bengali - Suchitra Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee

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Saat Pake Bandha, 1963 Director: Ajoy Kar Composer: Hemanta Mukherjee Cast: Suchitra Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Pahadi Sanyal, Chhaya Devi, Molina Devi, Tarun Kumar, Prasanta Kumar English subtitles included. Suchitra Sen gives a major performance in this marital melodrama. The independent Archana (Sen) tries to overcome her domineering and snobbish mother (Chhaya Devi) by marrying Sukhendu (Chatterjee), a serious university lecturer, but mother continues to interfere, reminding her son-in-law of his poverty. Suffering from divided loyalties, Archana’s problems are aggravated when her husband insists that she sever all ties with her parents. She separates from her husband and decides to complete her studies while living independently. When she finally accepts her wifely duties and returns home it is too late, as Sukhendu has resigned his job and gone abroad. Sen’s finely honed performance often undercuts the ideology her character is supposed to exemplify, evoking the possibility of a more egalitarian representation of women in Bengali cinema. Despite the conservatism of the story, issues of marital compatibility are extensively discussed without invoking conventional patriarchal moralism. Awards: Moscow International Film Festival Silver Prize for Best Actress: Suchitra Sen 11th National Film Awards – Saat Pake Bandha received a Certificate of Merit for 2nd best film in Bengali The source on which I worked was provided by Sudipta, to whom I'm very grateful. He has a channel here on YouTube consisting of classic Bengali-language film songs: And another channel for classic Hindi-language film songs: TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM: AviSynth for the video editing Audacity for the audio work. Aegisub for the subtitles VirtualDub2 for the encoding COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: The Indian copyright law: 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.