Awara, 1951
Director: Raj Kapoor
Music Directors: Shankarsinh/Jaikishan
Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri, Shailendra
Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Shamshad Begum
Cast: Raj Kapoor, Nargis Dutt, Prithviraj Kapoor, K.N. Singh, Cuckoo, B.M. Vyas
English translation provided.
Indian film icon Raj Kapoor directs this Oedipal family drama centering on Raju (Kapoor), the disaffected son of renowned Judge Raghuath (played by the director's father Prithvaraj Kapoor), who finds himself on the street pursuing a life of crime. Soon he runs into Jagga (K. N. Singh), the untouchable criminal who brought shame on his mother. Though he plots to kill both Jagga and Raghuath, Raju saves his real father, restoring his father's love for the lad and at the same time winning the heart of his one and only love Rita (Nargis).
There are excellent reviews of the film here:
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Awara was the top grossing film of 1951, beating out both Baazi and Albela.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
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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.
