Nagin (नागिन) 1954

Published on November 10, 2011 in Cinema

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Director	Nandlal Jaswantlal
Writer	Bijon Bhattacharya
Producer	Mahendra Shah
Orginal music	Hemanta Mukherjee
Cinematography	Fali Mistry
Film Editing	Babu Lavande
Art Director	Syed Ahmed, G.J. More
Camera Operator	N.V. Srinivas
Assistant Cameramen	S.V. Srikanth
Playback Singers	Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Hemanta Mukherjee

Character	Actor / Actress
Mala	Vyjayanthimala
Sanatan	Pradeep Kumar.
Prabir	Jeevan
Dhopal - The Nagi Chieftan	Mubarak
Mala's Mother (as Sulochana)	Ruby Mayer
	I. S. Johar
	Krishna Kumari

Two Adivasi tribes are in conflict for some local economic rights. The daughter of the Nagi tribe's chief, Mala (Vyjayanthimala) vows to kill the son of the Ragi tribe's chief, Sanatan (Pradeep Kumar) as revenge. Trespassing the enemy territory, she is mesmerized by music of a flute (played by the musician Kalyanji Virji Shah). Coming closer, she finds out that the singer is Sanatan. They fall in love, but find it difficult to appease the enemity between the two tribes and to resist to the attempts of the villain Prabir (Jeevan) to marry the heroine.Hemant Kumar was the music director of this film, which is noted for its music. Hemant Kumar won the national filmfare award for this film in 1954.He also sang some of the songs himself, such as Tere Dwar Khada Ek Jogi and Zindagi Ke Denewale.