REGION All
CASE Keep Case
DISTRIBUTOR Moserbaer-Bombino
VIDEO FORMAT (ntsc/pal), AR, and WHETHER ANAMORPHIC NTSC Full Screen 4:3
AUDIO 2.0 Stereo
SUBTITLES English
RUNTIME 162 mins
EXTRAS None

rana sahab's fav film!

LOL really?

Got hold of Moserbaer-Bombino DVD and can confirm, it's still my fav film for sure. Among Prince-Princess films you won't find this film's beauty, music, glamour, comedy, story, in any other film. Most importantly, music and beauty. Sadhna looked prettiest in this film (and in 'Ishq Par Zor Nahin' as well). I would love to see a Blu Ray of this film. A direct film to PAL or a direct Film to NTSC, too will be OK. For sure I would like to see a better print than has been available so far.

Esquire VHS had as good a print as normal for those days (pretty good actually). EROS DVD was from the Esquire VHS source. Mosebaer-Bombino print is slightly better but still from the same source (perhaps from mater tape, instead of VHS). (As I recall, Esquire material went mainly to WEG/ Bombino and some legally/ illegally to EROS). All three prints are thoroughly field averaged.

Film Length:
Film 1964 CC shows 4907 meters which is 179 min. (Combining existing videos, we have 175 min 30 sec film time).

Esquire VHS: 168 min (175 min film time).

EROS DVD is 165 min 16 sec (172 min film time @ 4% speed up). Colors are good but some noise due to non-optimum tracking of VHS playback.

Moserbaer-Bombino DVD: 162 min 17 sec (169 min film time). Colors and PQ are better than EROS.

Not much is missing in any of the prints. Just a few frames missing here and there.

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Raajkumar was written by Manmohan Desaai. Manmohan Ddesaai later made Dharamveer on the same Prince-Princess theme. Same combo of Beauty, Music and princely storyline. Dharamveer too is my fav film, but I like film Rajkumar more.

Continuing from
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=867&p=109233#p109233




FINALLY A GOOD PRINT OF RAJKUMAR (on Amazon Prime).

My fav film Shammi Kapoor - Sadhna's Rajkumar never had a decent DVD/ Blu Ray / VHS. Many other films of that era got good print DVDs but this Rajkumar did not catch anyone's attention to release in a good print.

2-3 Yrs back, finally saw a few songs (3) of the film, not only in good print but excellent print on youtube. (Search Rajkumar 4K). Recently, a fourth song also was posted, in 4K, on youtube. (4K resolution or may be at least a Blu Ray quality).

Today, I noticed the film on Amazon Prime, Ultra release. Thought it to be the same as previous youtube postings that were not the same PQ as its 4K songs. Was presently surprised to see the full film in the same quality as its 4K songs postings on youtube.

BUT

1) This excellent print has one critical segment missing (1 min) that the the movie plot makes not much sense.
2) Also identified another 4 min 23 sec, not so important segment, missing.



1) Critical segment missing (1 min):
Whole plot is based on that Rajkumar does not say where he was at the time of murder. Why can not he say that ??
It's the Kaali Maa Temple sequence that his stepmother (Maharani) says that she was from a courtesan family. This much is in the Amazon presentation. What is missing is that Maharani tricks him to extract a pledge from Rajkumar that he will never disclose where he was at that time. Just a 1 min sequence but extremely critical that "Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaayee" is reminded multiple times throughout the film. Without this pledge, there is no reason why he can not he clear himself from the murder charge and the story does not exist.

2) Identified another 4 min 23 sec, not so important important segment, missing:
Segment between Rajkumar's arrest and Guards telling the King that Rajkumar has escaped, is missing (4 min 23 sec). This segment shows deliberations in the family and how Rajkumar escapes and his compulsions to be able to clear his name or surrender to maintail the family honour.

Another thing; Amazon Prime version is without PAL speedup. I’m watching it and comparing it with the old Ultra postings. The latter runs faster.

Yes, you are right. Amazon Prime is not speed shifted.

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I've been looking for an previous thread, where we could discuss 24 fps, 25 fps issues and not getting speed shift. Reason ??
Will do when I find it.

For now,
Consider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9gCSFQSm4M&t=3039s
where 'Stats For Nerds (Right click)' shows 25 fps and this 'Aayee Bahaar' song is 5 min 20 sec. (4% speed-up)

And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7-d-7EWMHU
where 'Stats For Nerds (Right click)' shows 25 fps and this 'Aayee Bahaar' song is 5 min 41 sec. (25 fps but no 4% speed-up). For video not 4% speed up, I would have expected 24 fps and not 25 fps.

Found a similar conversation on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13630&p=108630&hilit=Amrapali&sid=2f7b4070343f934122bb2c61d0633113#p108630




Another discussion:- viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12373&p=108800&hilit=Nimmi#p108801



Finally: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7713&p=60436&hilit=Talash#p108744

With Youtube, more and more Bollywood film videos are becoming available. Some of those of the films where none existed before or a total crap was available before. One of the 70s film (Joy Mukherjee's INSPECTOR) that I liked, never found a good print and even if a bad print, not complete glamour song (Pee Le) sequence in climax. This film was recently posted in excellent (Digital 25 fps) print. Clear distinct frames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPwEAiS7xQ
As the frames were clearly distinct, one could easily count that although video is 25fps (film is 24 fps), there is no 4% speed up as every 24th frame is repeated in 25th.


Posted another case (the beginning of this post) of film INSPECTOR that is 25 fps video and no speed shift.

Some 2 months ago, a nice print of Rajkumar was posted on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGfXSbVBWg&t=7342s