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Waris, 1954 Director: Nitin Bose Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri, Qamar Jalalabadi Choreographer: Badri Prasad Playback: Asha Bhosle, Rajkumari, Suraiya, Talat Mahmood Cast: Suraiya, Talat Mahmood, Nadira, Jagdish Sethi, Yakub, Sadat Ali, Achla Sachdev, Roopmala English subtitles included. Anu has created, as far as I know, the first and only subtitles ever made for Waris. The Hindi-challenged among us owe her a great debt of gratitude. Thanks a tonne, Anu! The source was of abominable quality. There must be only one source for the film as the other versions on YouTube look the same as when I started. To fix it up required more filtering than I like and, as a result, the video is somewhat soft or blurry. In addition, there are a lot of missing frames. Sometimes there are few enough that it can be sort-of smoothed over. Other times I left it alone. They range from a single missing frame, to a few in a row, to part of a scene to entire scenes. Although there are a few places where the missing parts are obvious, I don't think they hinder the enjoyment of the film. The Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema has this to say about Waris: An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Rana Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunwar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported lost and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta (Nadira), a young woman betrayed by Rana’s villainous secretary Kailash (Yakub), who arrives at the house and is mistaken for Shobha. Masquerading as Shobha, who lives nearby in absolute poverty, Kanta moves in, causing a moral dilemma and generating suspense since she could be caught out any moment. Starring singing stars Talat Mahmood and Suraiya, the film includes several solos by each of them as well as some duets: Rahi matwale, Ghar tera apna ghar laage. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: The Indian copyright law: 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 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.
