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Description: Nagin, 1954 Director: Nandlal Jaswantlal Music: Hemanta Mukherjee Lyrics: Rajinder Krishan Cinematographer: Fali Mistry Choreographers: Sachin Shankar, Yogendra Desai, Hiralal, Surya Kumar Playback: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Hemanta Mukherjee Cast: Vyjayanthimala, Pradeep Kumar, Jeevan, Mubarak, S.L. Puri, Ram Avtar, Krishna Kumari, Sulochana, I.S. Johar Translation included. Nagin was the highest grossing film of 1954, beating out Nastik, Taxi Driver and Aar-Paar. The Encyclopedia Of Indian Cinema says this about Nagin: A primitivist love fantasy and a big hit for Vyjayanthimala. She and Pradeep Kumar play professional snake catchers for different tribal groups. When they fall in love (encouraged by the hero’s villainous rival, played by Jeevan) their respective clans go to war. A snake sent to kill the hero bites the heroine instead, but he then rescues her by sucking the poison out of her body. This skeletal plot holds together the dances choreographed by Sachin Shankar, Yogendra Desai and Hiralal and executed by the sinuous Vyjayanthimala. Major hit songs include Man dole mera tan dole sung by Lata Mangeskhar and introducing Hemanta Mukherjee as a front-line Hindi composer as well as Kalyanji’s clavioline which simulates the snake-charmer’s flute. The number was adapted from Bijon Bhattacharya’s play Jiyankanya which is also a distant source for the plot. Here's a thorough, humorous, and sometimes mistaken review of the film: http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/cinema/review/archives/nagin_1954.php All versions of the film seem to have been created from at least two different sources - one with and one without ugly hard coded English translations. Thankfully, most of the film is without them. I have three different versions of the film and they all have a huge problem (in addition to the usual problems common to all DVDs of Indian classic films) - missing frames. Sometimes a lot is missing between frames, sometimes a little, and sometimes very little. Sometimes it wasn't possible to bridge the splices and I just removed the splice marks and left in the 'jump' where the missing frames would be. Most of the time I was able to bridge the gap more or less successfully, although that's not really possible with the missing audio. In addition, the version with the best quality video had the worst quality audio, with an annoying hum much of the time. But the version with the good audio had a bit longer and very poor quality video and it's very difficult to replace audio from one with audio from a different version when the lengths aren't the same. But I did the best I could because this film is worth the extra work. I also took video from the longer but poorer version to add to what I had already. So, there's something like two minutes of 'new' footage and the credits were replaced as well because the other 'poor quality' DVD had more picture vertically in the credits. Make sense? No, I didn't think so.