Kala Pani - Dev Anand, Madhubala

Kala Pani, 1958
Director: Raj Khosla
Music Director: S.D. Burman
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi
Choreography: Lachhu Maharaj, Satyanarayan
Cast: Dev Anand, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant, Sapru, Agha, Mukri, Kishore Sahu, Nasir Hussain, Krishan Dhawan, Jankidas, Bir Sakuja


English translation available. It was heavily edited and improved by Anu. In addition, she created subs for all the songs from scratch and those of us not speaking the language owe her a debt of gratitude. Please read her review of this fine film on her blog, Conversations Over Chai:

https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/...

The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Kala Pani:

A crime movie about institutionalised
corruption. Hero Karan (Anand) discovers that
his father, believed dead, is in fact in jail for a
murder he did not commit. Karan sets out to
prove his father’s innocence with the help of a
fearless journalist, Asha (Madhubala). The
villain is the corrupt public prosecutor (Sahu).
The key witness is a dancer, Kishori, played by
Nalini Jaywant who elevates the film beyond its
plot. Her own desire, rendered in the hit Asha
Bhosle number Nazar laagi raja tore bangle
pe, makes for an ambiguous love triangle that
also provides other reasons to that of the hero’s
vendetta for seeking out the truth. The other
song hit Hum bekhudi me tumko pukare (sung
by Mohammed Rafi), in which Kishori
unleashes her charms on the drunken hero,
was described by Mahesh Bhatt (1993) as ‘a
typical example of a Raj Khosla song and his
unique attitude towards sex on the Indian
screen’.

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
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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.