Jeet - 1949 - Dev Anand, Suraiya

Jeet, 1949
Director: Mohan Sinha
Music: Anil Biswas
Lyrics: Prem Dhawan
Playback: Suraiya, Geeta Dutt, Shankar Dasgupta, Vinod, Lata Mangeshkar
Cast: Dev Anand, Suraiya, Kanhaiya Lal, Bhagwan, Durga Khote, Madan Puri, Habib

Translation included. Anu has, once again, created subs for a film and the first time ever, I think, for the songs from Jeet. Many many thanks to her for her hard work.

India has finally won independence from British rule, and there are signs of progress among the population. One such sign of progress is in the village where two childhood sweethearts, namely Jeet and Vijay live. Vijay lives with his mom and brother Ratan. Ratan, who lives abroad, returns home to India, with all new ideas of progress and advancement. This is not met well with some of the villagers, including Jeet and Vijay themselves. Ratan overhears a conversation that Vijay is not his real brother, and asks Vijay to leave the house, despite his mother's protests. Self-respecting Vijay leaves the house, and Ratan plans to marry Jeet, and schemes with some villagers that will revolutionize his plans for progress, and make Vijay the culprit.

The film doesn't espouse only socialist viewpoints, but comes perilously close to being communist in outlook. It's an interesting look at the kinds of politics being discussed post-independence.

Anu's blog features a full review of the film:

https://anuradhawarrier.blogspot.com/...

TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM:
AviSynth for the video editing
Audacity for the audio work.
Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitles

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.