Pocket Maar - Dev Anand, Geeta Bali

Pocket Maar, 1956
Director: S. Rawail
Music: Madan Mohan
Lyrics: Rajinder Krishan
Choreographer: Surya Kumar
Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mahmood
Cast: Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Nadira, Gope, Tiwari, Sunder, Lalita Pawar, Kumud, Minoo Mumtaz

English translation included.

You'll quickly notice the black bars above and below. I went to use my retail version of the film but it wouldn't extract. After playing it once several years ago to back it up, it's no longer any good at all. I had to use my backup copy. Unfortunately, the original retail DVD had these black bars above and below. I don't know why. Maybe the upper and lower parts of the tape from which the DVD was made were bad. About 2/3 of the way through it goes back to normal. You'll also notice the remains of a company logo in the lower right, poorly removed by me at the time I made that backup copy.

A pickpocket inadvertently causes the suicide of a man whose pocket he picks. He goes to the dead man’s village to return the stolen money only to fall in love with the deceased’s sister. Not just that, the money itself is part of the loot from a huge bank robbery.

Upperstall has a short and less-than-favorable review of the film here:

https://upperstall.com/film/pocketmaa...

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.