Primitivist love story and popular musical set among the Shaivite clan of snake-charmers. Renouned snake-charmer Jahar (Bhattacharya), the survivor of 99 snakebites thanks to rigorous self-discipline including sexual abstinence, rescues a young girl from snakebite and raises her as a boy called Chandan (Kanan Devi). As he starts feeling sexually attracted to ‘him’, the clan discovers that Jahar is sheltering a young woman and so they seek to depose him as chief. Meanwhile, the young Jhumro (Sanyal) elopes with Chandan and in a fit of fury Jahar sends a deadly snake in pursuit of the couple. The snake bites Jhumro and only Jahar’s powers can save the boy… |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 1939 | |
Runtime: | 2 min | |
Cast: | Pahadi Sanyal Kanan Devi Menaka Devi Shyam Laha | |
Crew: | Debaki Bose Kazi Nazrul Islam | |
DaniBl : This could have been so much better if it wasn't so stereotypical. They put too much focus...