Uttar Falguni - Bengali - Suchitra Sen, Bikash Roy

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Uttar Falguni, 1963 Director: Asit Sen Producer: Uttam Kumar Composer: Robin Chatterjee Lyrics: Gauriprasanna Majumdar Playback: Chhayadevi, Sandhya Mukherjee Cast: Suchitra Sen as Debjani / Pannabai and Suparna Bikash Roy as Manish Roy Chhaya Devi as Baijee Dilip Mukherjee as Indranil Padmadevi as Indranil's mother Kalipada Chakraborty as Rakhalbabu Pahari Sanyal as Barrister Jahar Ganguli as Debjani's father Sita Mukherjee as Mother Mary English subtitles included. The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Uttar Falguni: The unhappily married Debjani (Sen) escapes from her drunken husband Rakhalbabu (Chakraborty) and becomes the courtesan Pannabai. Her former lover, the lawyer Manish Roy (Roy), comes to her rescue when he adopts her daughter Suparna. The adult Suparna (Sen in a double role) also becomes a lawyer, unaware of her real parentage. Debjani’s husband, who had blackmailed his wife for several years, reappears on Suparna’s wedding day, demanding money. Debjani shoots him dead and appears in court, where she is defended first by Manish and then by her daughter, who learns the truth. One of Suchitra Sen’s famous roles appearing both as a Thumri-singing courtesan and her emancipated daughter. The film makes extensive use of Asit Sen’s characteristic panning shots and lap dissolves as narrative bridges, most notably in the montage sequences that show Suparna growing up. The director remade the film in Hindi as Mamata (1966). This is the fourth film produced by Uttam Kumar but for the first time he did not act in his home production. He gave the chance to Bikash Roy for the story conditions and audiences perspective. The film became a blockbuster hit at the box office and ran for 105 days in theaters. Awards: 1964: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Uttam Kumar (As producer) 1964: BFJA Best Actress Award - Suchitra Sen Upperstall has an excellent review of the film here: Here's a playlist for the four songs from the film: TOOLS USED: AviSynth for the video editing Audacity for the audio work Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitle work 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.