Sangdil - 1952 - Dilip Kumar, Madhubala

Sangdil, 1952
Director: R.C. Talwar
Music Director: Sajjad Hussain
Lyrics: Rajindra Krishan
Choreography: Gopi Krishna
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Shamshad Begum, Talat Mahmood
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Shammi, Leela Chitnis, Protima Devi, Dara Singh, Randhawa

English language subtitles included.

A loose adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic, Jane Eyre. In this version childhood sweethearts are separated and grow up in different worlds. The girl is brought up to be a 'pujaaran' (priestess) while the boy grows up to be a dejected 'thakur', turned vindictive by life's injustices. Fate inevitably brings them together at a later juncture, and all seems happy and perfect for the young couple, until she discovers his deep, dark secret.
Dusted Off has a full review of the film here:

https://madhulikaliddle.com/2015/11/1...

While the video is (mostly) okay, the audio had problems. Whoever produced the DVD was very heavy handed with the noise reduction. As a result, some major parts are very 'hollow' sounding, as if the dialog was being spoken in a cave. And in places the volume was so low that when I made it louder, it increased both the noise and the 'hollowness'. Without the noise being cleaned up the audio is very noisy and 'scratchy' sounding. You can tell with the Shemaroo version of the film here on YouTube, which had little done to the audio, but the noise reduction on my source could have used a lighter touch.

In addition, while working on it I came across a place where there was obvious missing footage. I checked the other version I had and found three and a half more minutes. Unfortunately, that source was of very poor quality - soft and blurry, and very heavily cropped - as compared to the better version. The added on part begins at 1:12:37 (that's a clickable link) and you can see how the two versions differ in cropping by the black bars I added to make it the same size as the better version, so there would be less of a 'jump' when the two versions joined back together. The black bars begin with a scene change at 1:14:58.

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.