Mehboob Productions Ltd.

Background
This was the production company of Indian director and producer Mehboob Khan, which he established in 1942. Khan is most well-known for his internationally successful and critically acclaimed film, Mother India (1957). When Khan died in 1964, the company ceased almost all business, and he left behind financial debts on his family. The fortunes of the studio revived in the 1970s with the rights of Mother India reverted to the family and a recording studio was added. The company is pretty much inactive as of now, with real-estate developments and a fire striking the studio in 2000, and as of 2010 the former studio is an arts and cultural space.

1st Logo (January 17, 1943-February 14, 1957)
Visuals: A bunch of lightning and fog is first seen at the beginning on a red background, which then slowly reveals a yellow tombstone that contains an "M" inside a hammer and sickle symbol, below it reads "MEHBOOB" and smaller "PRODUCTIONS" below the former text. The tombstone slowly zooms in.

Variants:
 * From 1943 to 1949 (like in Humayum) the logo used a B&W version which consisted of several lightning and fog at the beginning, and after between lightning up to 3 times appearing very quick the tombstone, until the logo is still.
 * On Anokhi Ada and Andaz used, a still B&W version with just the announcer. There are clouds around the tombstone.
 * Some prints of Mother India have the logo in a dark blue tint . The appearance of the tombstone is also delayed, with the voiceover starting during some drawn-out fog effects.
 * Some prints of Aan have the logo in a pinkish tint.

Technique: Live-action with traditional animation for the lightning. The early variants used traditional animation in all aspects.

Audio: Some thunder sounds along with a dramatic violin fanfare with trumpets for its end, followed by a male announcer (Pakistani musician and actor Rafiq Ghaznavi) saying in Hindi: "मुद्दई लाख बुरा चाहे तो क्या होता है वही होता है जो मंज़ूरे खुदा होता है " (There are various Indian logos in which an announcer says a religious phrase rather than saying the company name.)

Audio Variant: Earlier films would have the audio being quieter.

Availability: Seen on Hindi films released by the company, such as Mother India.

2nd Logo (March 2, 1962)


Visuals: Against a live smoky purple background, a silhouette of a hammer and sickle is shown on top of a pedestal. Not so long after, flashes of lightning starts to appear, revealing the entire statue, colored in purple like the background, and including the pedestal, which consists of the words "MEHBOOB" on the top and "PRODUCTIONS PRIVATE LTD" at the bottom. Once it stops flashing (and the statue is fully exposed), the camera slowly starts to zoom in towards the statue.

Technique: Live-action.

Audio: It starts off with the sounds of thunder, followed by the last note of the same dramatic fanfare, but much louder than before. Then, same as the previous logo, though the audio prior to the announcer part is distorted.

Availability: Only seen on Son of India.