Sapera

Sapera (1939)

2h 8m
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Primitivist love story and popular musical set among the Shaivite clan of snake-charmers. Renouned snake-charmer Jahar (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...

Debaki Bose
Director
Lalchand Bismil (dialogue), Debaki Bose, Kazi Nazrul Islam (story)
Writer
Pahadi Sanyal, Kanan Devi, Krishna Chandra Dey, Menaka Devi
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Language: Hindi
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Country: India
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