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Nagin (1954 film)

Nagin (Devnagari: नागिन) is a 1954 film directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal, starring Vyjayanthimala and Pradeep Kumar.
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 they find 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. This film is also memorable for the music of this film. Hemant kumar won the national filmfare award for this film in 1954.He also sung some of the memorable songs of this film himself such as, tere dwar khara ek yogi, oo zindegi ke denewale.