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Saptapadi, 1961
Director: Ajoy Kar
Music Director: Hemanta Mukherjee
Lyrics: Gauri Prasanna Mazumder
Playback: Suzi Miller, Hemanta Mukherjee, Sandya Mukherjee
Cast: Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas, Chhayadevi, Padmadevi
Selectable English subtitles included. There is a lot of English spoken, especially during the long Othello scene, and the English has no subtitles.
The Encyclopedia of Indian Film says this about Saptapadi:
Set in WW2, the Jesuit Rev. Krishnendu
(U. Kumar) runs a military hospital in Bankura.
A wounded woman soldier, Rina Braun (Sen),
arrives and he recognises his former lover,
triggering a long flashback showing them as
fellow medical students. She is an exotic
Eurasian and the hero wins her while playing
Othello (he was dubbed by Utpal Dutt,
renowned for his stage performance of that
role) to her Desdemona in a college
performance. His orthodox father (Biswas)
forbids their marriage. The hero converts to
Christianity and exiles himself. Rina discovers
that she is the illegitimate daughter of a Hindu
maid and becomes an alcoholic, eventually
joining the army. Back in the present, Rina tries
to kill herself when she regains consciousness
but the lovers are united in the midst of the war
(Tarashankar’s original story ended tragically).
This Kumar/Sen hit (cf. Sagarika, 1956),
including their characteristic low-angle, soft-
focus close-ups and stylised movements,
yielded one of the most popular song
picturisations of the decade, the classic motor
bike scene number Ei path jadi na shesh hoi.
Wikipedia has a large entry on the film and its importance:
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Awards:
National Film Awards:
1961: Certificate of Merit for Second Best Feature Film in Bengali
Moscow International Film Festival:
1963: Best Actress: Suchitra Sen
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards:
1962: Best Actor: Uttam Kumar
Here's a link to the playlist of the three songs from Saptapadi:
• Saptapadi - All Songs
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.