Uttar Falguni, 1963
Director: Asit Sen
Producer: Uttam Kumar
Composer: Robin Chatterjee
Lyrics: Gauriprasanna Majumdar
Playback: Chhayadevi, Sandhya Mukherjee
Cast:
Suchitra Sen as Debjani / Pannabai and Suparna
Bikash Roy as Manish Roy
Chhaya Devi as Baijee
Dilip Mukherjee as Indranil
Padmadevi as Indranil's mother
Kalipada Chakraborty as Rakhalbabu
Pahari Sanyal as Barrister
Jahar Ganguli as Debjani's father
Sita Mukherjee as Mother Mary
English subtitles included.
The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Uttar Falguni:
The unhappily married Debjani (Sen) escapes from her drunken husband Rakhalbabu (Chakraborty) and becomes the courtesan Pannabai. Her former lover, the lawyer Manish Roy (Roy), comes to her rescue when he adopts her daughter Suparna. The adult Suparna (Sen in a double role) also becomes a lawyer, unaware of her real parentage. Debjani’s husband, who had blackmailed his wife for several years, reappears on Suparna’s wedding day, demanding money. Debjani shoots him dead and appears in court, where she is defended first by Manish and then by her daughter, who learns the truth. One of Suchitra Sen’s famous roles appearing both as a Thumri-singing courtesan and her emancipated daughter. The film makes extensive use of Asit Sen’s characteristic panning shots and lap dissolves as narrative bridges, most notably in the montage sequences that show Suparna growing up. The director remade the film in Hindi as Mamata (1966).
This is the fourth film produced by Uttam Kumar but for the first time he did not act in his home production. He gave the chance to Bikash Roy for the story conditions and audiences perspective. The film became a blockbuster hit at the box office and ran for 105 days in theaters.
Awards:
1964: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Uttam Kumar (As producer)
1964: BFJA Best Actress Award - Suchitra Sen
Upperstall has an excellent review of the film here:
https://upperstall.com/film/uttar-falguni/
Here's a playlist for the four songs from the film:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_A9T_Uj7IxQfeLsjRnekL8F67ftVQLq
TOOLS USED:
AviSynth for the video editing
Audacity for the audio work
Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitle work
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf
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.