Jogan, 1950
Director: Kidar Sharma
Music: Bulo C. Rani
Lyrics: Meera Bai,Buta Ram, Pt. Indra Chandra, Kidar Sharma, Himmat Rai Sharma, Kabir
Playback: Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum, Talat Mahmood
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Nargis Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Baby Tabassum, Pratima Devi, Manju, Anwari, Punima, Pesi Pael, Ramesh Thakur, Darpan
Translation provided. The subs were transferred over from a different source, no easy task. Anuradha Warrier heavily edited and improved the subs to make them much better than they originally were and for that I am grateful. She has an excellent blog on classic Indian films which includes a brand new review of Jogan, as of today, June 25, 2018. You can check it out here:
https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/
The source was a VHS tape provided by Mrs. Anand by way of Dr. Surjit Singh. My sincere thanks to the both of them. I chose to use a tape rather than a DVD because the tape showed much more of the picture. To understand what I mean, please see the Before and After here:
• Jogan - Before And After
Other videos of the film and its songs here on YouTube use similar sources for which they can't be blamed. Of course, they can be blamed for ugly logos and bad aspect ratios, but not for so much of the picture missing. So, even though the DVD was of (very slightly) better video quality, the fact that so much of the original picture was cropped away on the DVD convinced me to go with the tape, even though much more work was involved. Of course, the VHS tape also has picture missing, but just much less. When you watch opening credits, originally they would have included the complete text plus a wide area around them. The VHS tape also had about five more minutes of the film included.
The Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema has this to say about Jogan:
The title refers to religious female mendicants, whose best-known example continues to be
the 16th-C. saint poet Meerabai. One of Sharma’s most emotionally charged melodramas, it features Surabhi (Nargis), a mendicant whose song by Meerabai, Ghunghat ke pat khole re, (sung by Geeta Dutt) attracts the atheist Vijay (D. Kumar). Despite her protestations, he keeps following her and she eventually tells him how she escaped her debtridden father and alcoholic brother who wanted her to marry an old man; she ran away to die and renounced her earlier life. When she leaves, she tells Vijay not to follow her beyond a particular tree. Later, another jogan arrives, meets Vijay by the tree and gives him a book, saying that Surabhi had entrusted her, before she died, with the task of giving it to a man who would be waiting by a tree. The film has several other Meera bhajans sung by Geeta Dutt which became some of her early hit songs. Bulo C. Rani’s most famous film score, assisting an innovative soundtrack incl. voiceovers and monologues, with the songs often set to twilight effects, chiaroscuro and flickering lights.
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.
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