Director: Debaki Bose; Writer: Debaki Bose, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Lalchand Bismil[H]; Cinematographer: Yusuf Mulji; Cast: Pahadi Sanyal, Kanan Devi, Krishna Chandra Dey, Menaka Devi, Shyam Laha, Satya Mukherjee, Manoranjan Bhattacharya[B], Nawab[H], Rathin Bannerjee[B], Ahi Sanyal[B], Prafulla Mukherjee[B], Prithviraj Kapoor[H], Bikram Kapoor[H]
Summary: Primitivist love story and popular musical set among the Shaivite clan of snake-charmers. Renowned snake-charmer Jahar (Bhattacharya/ Nawab), 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, which poses a major dilemma for the patriarch.
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