Raagini - Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Padmini

Raagini, 1958
Director: Rakhan
Music Director: O.P. Nayyar
Lyrics: Qamar Jalalabadi, Jan Nisar Akhtar
Choreographers: Sohanlal, Hiralal, Badri Prasad
Playback: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Ustaad Aamir Khan
Cast: Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Padmini, Sunder, Nasir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Jabeen Jalil, Vinod Mehra
English translation included. Fantine has taken bad subtitles and heavily edited them so now they're a joy to read while watching the film. We non-Hindi speakers owe her a large debt of gratitude.
Some idiot company thought it a good idea to not only put their ugly logo in the upper left of the entire movie, but to ruin the songs as well by putting one across the bottom center of them all. I did my best to remove them, but logos such as these can't be removed entirely. Things like this only go to prove the immense greed of Indian media companies. Logos of any kind are a disgrace and show disrespect for India's film heritage. They should all be banned.
After Kishore gets kicked out of his village at the behest of the bad guy, Jaggu, and leaves behind his inspiration and love Jabeen Jalil, he makes it to the big city seeking to become a successful singer. He has no luck at all until he is befriended by Padmini and then Ashok Kumar. With their help he becomes famous, and Padmini's dance career is revived, even though she has a serious heart ailment and shouldn't be dancing. Padmini also falls in love with Kishore, but Kishore remains true to his lady love Jabeen. His career is booming, but meanwhile back in the village Jaggu wants to marry Jabeen. She runs away to the city hoping to find Kishore. The plot gets complicated at that point. Vinod Mehra plays a young Kishore. There are lots of songs and lovely Padmini dances, making this a true musical.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
copyright.gov.i...
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.

[@RaghuvirVarma]

Long time no see. 🙏🏼 hope everything is great at your end, Tom. I’ve been thinking about your contribution so much lately and I am so delighted to see your presence yet again.

[@tommydan55]

My presence has only seemed to lessen. My most recent upload before Raagini (a Bengali film) has disappeared because of first a block and then a strike by the former copyright holder. That criminal attempt to silence this channel will disappear in another 3-4 days. But thanks for your concern and appreciation of the work done here.

[@ashok48393]

@@tommydan55 Why doesn’t UA-cam punish these frivolous copyright claimers with three strikes out rule?

[@tommydan55]

@@ashok48393 In this particular case, they supported the criminals. I managed to get an investigation going but the result was that UA-cam supported the criminals responsible for 5 fraudulent copyright strikes against my channels and 105 false copyright claims. And how did they come to that conclusion? By asking that corrupt media company! Not by asking an Indian copyright attorney but by asking the people responsible for all the damage. Money talks.

[@ashok48393]

@@tommydan55 I am so sick and tired of UA-cam for supporting these crooked media companies that I think that may be you should switch to DailyMotion. By the way I saw your channel Tommydan1 on DailyMotion, although it looks like 9 years old.

[@puransinghnagar3269]

Rafi sahab singing for kishore, male or female rafi sahab was the best singer for ever✌

[@yaqeenahmed517]

Happy ending of a complexed situation, good direction of a fine subject

[@debkumarbhattacharya8097]

Nice, considering the period, melodious music as usual by great O P Nayerji🙏

[@arunmisra5963]

I am watching & enjoying this moovie , a better quality video🎥 with good music🎶 and 🎧🎵songs that I like . Thanking you❤🌹 td 11*5& your team .

[@shaanz2.087]

Fantastic effort. Thank you, tommyjee🙏

[@shibapriyadas3252]

Watched it yesterday. What an amazing movie! 💕🙏

[@shaanz2.087]

Tommyjee❤️❤️❤️thanks

[@sajjadhussain1573]

Beautiful movie 🎥

[@dhanrajchouhan3449]

Best movie super music

Thank you tommydan55

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. This one is a joy to watch.

[@st525]

I SEE..

[@shahroopjalal8595]

Moni-kanchwonyoga: Kishor Kumar - Padmini !

[@yaqeenahmed517]

R..A Khan a sensible Director and wrter

[@patrickdsouza1183]

Beautiful movie

[@sunandmabbula3556]

Happy ending of the movie. WA, USA.

[@sagarroka6785]

Legend brothers good movie !

[@shubhamsingh-gw6li]

Kya mast movie hai 👌👌👌