Mahal, 1949
Director: Kamal Amrohi
Music Director: Khemchand Prakash
Lyrics: Nakshab
Playback: Zohrabai Ambalawali, Lata Mangeshkar, Rajkumari
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Vijayalaxmi, Kanu Roy, M. Kumar

Translation included.

Kamal Amrohi makes his directorial debut with this horror-mystery, widely considered a masterpiece of Indian cinema. The film centers on Shankar (Ashok Kumar), a handsome young lad who buys an old abandoned mansion rumored to have a dark and mysterious past. He quickly notices his resemblance to the portrait of the former owner. Soon afterwards he is approached by the ghost of the former owner's mistress, Kamimi (Madhubala), who orders Shankar to either die or marry her reincarnation, a servant's daughter named Asha. Shankar soon becomes obsessed with the ghost, so much so that his friend, Shrinath (Kanu Roy), worries about his mental health. His friend arranges for Shankar to marry the beautiful Ranjana (Vijayalakshmi). Shankar's obsession only intensifies after the wedding, as he forces his poor bride to live in a vermin-infected shack. She soon commits suicide and Shankar is arrested for her death. Watch to see what happens afterwards.

Mahal was the third highest grossing Indian film of 1949, behind Barsaat and Andaz.

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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