Chaudhvin Ka Chand - Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman

Chaudhvin Ka Chand, 1960
Director: M. Sadiq
Music: Ravi
Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni
Choreographer: Sohanlal
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Shamshad Begum
Cast: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Rehman, Johnny Walker, Mumtaz Begum, Parveen Paul, Tun Tun

English subtitles included. The opening song - during the credits - wasn't subtitled for some reason, but Fantine has created them and the song explains the importance of Lucknow once upon a time and the subs are very helpful to those of us not understanding the language. Much thanks to Fantine.

The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema has this to say about the film:

Dutt apparently commissioned Sadiq to make
this Muslim social to help the maker of
Rattan (1944) out of his impecunious
condition. The love triangle pivots around the
Islamic practice of purdah, which forbids
women to show their face to men outside
their immediate family. A nawab (Rehman)
catches a brief glimpse of Jamila’s
(W. Rehman) face and falls in love with her. At
his sister’s party, he manages to get hold of a
torn fragment from Jamila’s veil and gives it to
a maidservant to trace the identity of its
owner. Jamila happens to exchange her veil
with that of her friend Bano and so the nawab
identifies the wrong woman. This mistake
becomes a tragic irony when the nawab,
having refused to marry a woman chosen by
his ailing mother, persuades his close friend
Aslam (Dutt) to marry the maternal choice
instead: that woman turns out to be Jamila.
When some time later Aslam realises that his
friend the nawab is in love with his wife
Jamila, he pretends to tire of her, hoping that
she will demand a divorce and so will be free
to marry the nawab. The nawab soon learns of
Aslam’s attempted sacrifice and in the
tradition of male friendships on the screen,
the nawab chooses to die for his friend and
commits suicide. In later release prints, two
song sequences, one being the famous Rafi
solo Chaudhvin ka chand ho, ya aftaab ho,
were rendered in color although designed
for b&w.

There's a full review here:
http://www.filmsufi.com/2015/07/chaud...

Although there are some songs on YouTube with Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho in color, as far as I know none of the complete films uploaded here - including one by the former copyright holder - has either of the two. This version has both. One of them replaced the black and white version of my main source and, as it came from a television broadcast (thanks much, Muz!), it has English subtitles 'hardcoded' or 'burned' into the video.

Awards won:
Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer – Mohammed Rafi (1961) – for "Chaudhvin Ka
Chand" (1960)
Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist – Shakeel Badayuni (1961) – for "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" (1960)
Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction – Biren Nag

While working on this film, word came that Minoo Mumtaz had passed away. I admired her and her work in films tremendously and this film will serve as a fitting epitaph for her film career. She's working with her best partner, Johnny Walker, and contributes to the film in ways additional to her outstanding dancing on two songs. The body of work she leaves behind makes her one of the immortals. So, here's to you, Minoo Mumtaz, for the colorful life you led and for the color you brought into the lives of all that love you and have enjoyed your films:
   • Chaudhvin Ka Chand - Dil Ki Kahani Ra...  

Richard's blog has a tribute:
https://roughinhere.wordpress.com/202...
If you follow his links you might come across a Minoo Mumtaz compilation DVD. Anu has a tribute combined with song links:
https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/...
As does Madhu:
https://madhulikaliddle.com/2021/10/2...

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.