Saharer Itikatha - Bengali - Uttam Kumar, Mala Sinha

Saraher Itikatha, 1960
Director: Bishu Dasgupta
Music Director: Robin Chatterjee
Lyrics: Gouriprasanna Majumdar
Playback: Sandhya Mukherjee, Shyamal Mitra
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Mala Sinha, Pahadi Sanyal, Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Bhanu Bannerjee, Jiben Bose, Ajit Chatterjee, Dhiraj Das, Chhaya Devi, Bani Hazra, Tarun Kumar, Jahar Roy

English translation included.

It seems to be a Bengali version of Shaw's play, Pygmalion, about class division and social mobility. A wealthy man betrothed from birth to a poor illiterate girl, (wonderfully played by Mala Sinha), refuses to marry her because of her low standing. A wealthy zaminder (Uttam Kumar) - Mala Sinha's parents' landlord - takes it upon himself to 'modernize' her, and then to humiliate the fellow that refused her. Many of the early scenes from the time we meet Mala Sinha until the time her transition is complete are quite funny. After that a decent drama results until the satisfactory conclusion.

Here's a playlist for the four songs and two dances in the film:
   • Saharer Itikatha - 1960 - All Songs  

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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.