Looko Choori (aka Lukochuri), 1958
Director: Kamal Majumdar
Music Director: Hemanta Mukherjee
Lyrics: Gauri Prasanna, Mazumder, Rabindranath Tagore
Playback: Kishore Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Hemanta Mukherjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Cast: Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Anita Guha, Ajit Chatterjee, Moni Chatterjee, Anoop Kumar
English subtitles included. I did what I could to fix them up, but they're often pretty crude, especially the song lyrics.
This source has a ton of dropped frames, missing anywhere from one frame, to many more at a time, causing jumps in the action. Some were smoothed over as much as possible, some I didn't bother. There are also many vertical scratches and the software I use isn't good at fixing them. So, most remain.
Then there's the audio. Sometimes it sounds like they're in a cave - hollow sounding. Not much I can do about that. At least I don't know how to fix it. But, all in all, both the audio and video are okay.
This is a Bengali film, much of which takes place in Bombay (Mumbai). It stars actors well known to Hindi film fans, featuring Kishore and Anoop Kumar, Mala Sinha, and Anita Guha.
What's better than Kishore in a comedy? How about two Kishores? He plays twins in Bombay, one struggling to make it as a singer, the other working in an office. One loves Anita Guha, the other, Mala Sinha. The two women are sisters. Both sets of parents object to the relationships. Employing lots of 1958-style special effects and the kinds of screw-ups and mistaken identities one might imagine with twins, the film is funny and very enjoyable.
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.
