Kangan, 1959
Director: Nanabhai Bhatt
Music: Chitragupta
Lyrics: Rajendra Krishan
Choreography: Surya Kumar, Badri Prasad, Sachin Shanker
Playback: Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi, Usha Mangeshka, Lata Mangeshkar
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Purnima, Daisy Irani, Manhar Desai, Shammi, Bhagwan, Tiwari, Helen
English translation included.
The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Kangan:
The Das family consists of widower, Barrister Mohan; his son - CID Inspector Sharad; and married daughter, Kamla; and a school-going son, Munna. Kamla is married to an army Captain. Sharad's marriage has been arranged with Karuna, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed father. On the day of the marriage, Kamla asks Karuna to retrieve some letters that she had written to her former lover, Ramesh Bhatia. Karuna goes to retrieve them, but ends up assaulting Ramesh. She returns just in time to get married. Both women promise to never reveal this secret to anyone, as this may break-up Kamla's marriage. After the marriage, the Police are notified that Ramesh has been killed and their investigations shows that the killer is a woman whose name starts with 'K'. Sharad is assigned this case, but is unable to proceed, and as a result his superior, SP Verma, closes the file. Then a Hotel Manager comes forth and identifies the killer as Karuna. Sharad and Verma accumulate enough evidence, then go to arrest Karuna, but find she is absconding, but she later returns home, and is arrested and held in a cell. She refuses to divulge any information as to why she killed Ramesh. Now the entire family's dirty laundry will be aired before an open courtroom where Mohan will prepare to defend his daughter-in-law, while Sharad will appear as a witness against his very own wife.
Dusted Off has a review of the film on her blog:
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If you like this pairing of Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy (and I do), then let me also recommend Karigar, made the year before and also in this channel:
• Karigar - Ashok Kumar,...
Here's a playlist of the nine songs from the film:
• Kangan - 1959 - 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.
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