Suno Baranari - Bengali - Uttam Kumar, Supriya Choudhury

Suno Baranari (or Suno Baro Nari), 1960
Director: Ajoy Kar
Music: Robin Chatterjee
Lyrics: Gauri Prasanna Mazumder
Playback: Shyamal Mitra, Hemanta Mukherjee, Sumitra Sen
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Supriya Choudhury (or SupriyaDevi), Chhabi Biswas

English subtitles included. There's one song not subbed for some reason, and another unsubbed line.

A community do-gooder (Uttam Kumar) is contracted to escort a wealthy man's daughter (Supriya Choudhury) to another city to meet with the man to whom she is engaged. The two don't get along at all and he's glad to be rid of her after a difficult train ride. But both think about the other for days. They meet again when another train ride is arranged and the mood lightens and she falls head over heels for him while he resists the same feelings. He has a secret, you see, that prevents him from being open to falling in love. Watch it to see two master actors at the top of their game. I loved it.

I had never seen a film with Supriya Choudhury before, and hope to track down more as she's wonderful. She does her acting with her eyes, a twitch of her mouth, a subtle change of expression. Also, there's some first class work being done by the director, cinematographer (both are Ajoy Kar), and the lighting technicians. We see a lot of close ups of our two stars and they are purposely shown with only half a face lit. Be sure to pay attention to what is being lit in each scene. These are masters at work.

Much of the film takes place either on trains or at train stations. There's a lot of background noise and if you have trouble making out the dialog, turn on the subtitles.

Here's a playlist for the three songs in the film:
   • Suno Bara Nari - Bengali - All Songs  

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.