Pothey Holo Deri - Bengali - Uttam, Suchitra

Pothey Holo Deri, 1957
Director: Agradoot (a collective of film technicians)
Music: Robin Chatterjee
Lyrics: Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
Playback: Sandya Mukherjee, Alpana Banerjee
Cast: Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Shishir Batabyal, Anil Bhattacharya, Mihir Bhattacharya, Chhabi Biswas, Bharati Devi, Chandrabati Devi, Jahar Ganguli, Anup Kumar, Shyam Laha

English subtitles provided.

Jayanta, a poor doctor, falls in love with the rich Mallika who gives him her mother's jewelry to study medicine in Europe However, her grandfather, who is against their relationship, creates misunderstandings between the two and plans to wed Mallika off to a rich doctor. Jayanta comes back to find Mallika in a psychotic vegetative state resulting out of the anxiety and depression of being estranged from Jayanta. He sets out on a mission to devote all his life to cure her.

This was Bengali cinema's first color film. But the Gevacolor process used deteriorated and only black and white copies remain.

Here's a playlist of the 5 songs in the film:
   • Pothey Holo Deri - 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.