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  • Sapera (1939)
  • 128 min
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Sapera (1939)
128 min
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 ...See morePrimitivist 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... Written by Sujit R. Varma See less
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Director
Debaki Kumar Bose (as Debaki Bose)
Writers
Lalchand Bismil (dialogue) | Debaki Kumar Bose (as Debaki Bose) | Kazi Nazrul Islam (story)
Composer
Rai Chand Boral
Cinematographer
Yusuf Mulji
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