Comments on: Video of the Day: “Khel Wohi Phir Aaj Ti Khela” from Nigahen: Nagina Part II (1989)

By: sitaji

sitaji — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:24:46 +0000

Me too aazam, thanks for stopping by.

By: aazam

aazam — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:52:07 +0000

ilove sridivi

By: Time for the Snakes to Come Out! « Rough In Here, Rougher Out There

Time for the Snakes to Come Out! « Rough In Here, Rougher Out There — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:04:36 +0000

[...] a 1954 movie called Nagin (not to be confused with so many later movies called Nagin or Nagina or Nihagen: Nagina Part II, which are completely different, though they often return to the same snake-charming [...]

By: sitaji

sitaji — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:43:08 +0000

LOL, Shweta, I know. I was just re-watching Raja Hindustani the other day and they had the same thing on the screen at the end.

Thanks for stopping in. I love your blog:

http://apnieastindiacompany.blogspot.com/

By: Shweta

Shweta — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:21:24 +0000

I love how the movie sees it fit to assure us that they did live happily ever after

By: sitaji

sitaji — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:08:46 +0000

Yes memsaab, even with following the rules of suspending reality while watching, these are still too weird, yet oddly enjoyable. I was uncomfortable seeing what I first thought was a squirrel attack one of the star snakes, later to understand it was a mongoose. I immediately thought back to watching Jodhaa Akbar last week and reading at the start how no animals were harmed in the making of the film and thought that must not be true in the case of Nigahen. Poor snake.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/mongoose.html

Yes about those great special effects. Sridevi also put on this “snake look” when the inner snake took over, which also intensely affected her body. The special effects of the screen capture alone are pretty funny, with Sunny and Sridevi’s heads suspended above their cobra bodies. And now, because I too must be possessed by a snake spirit, I will have to see BOTH of the Nagins as well as this Jaani Dushman you write of.

By: memsaab

memsaab — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:58:50 +0000

I do find the snake movies somewhat mesmerizing, although I wouldn’t say I like them. I’ve seen Nagin (both 1954 and 1976) and Jaani Dushman (2002) and that may be enough for me (Jaani Dushman is possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and not in a “so-bad-its-good” way).

The special effects can be hilarious.

By: sitaji

sitaji — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:40:49 +0000

Well dw007, now you understand my blind commitment to all types of Indian movies . Yeah it was purely a WTF movie, and to top that off the English subtitles were only on for the first 1/2 hour and then resumed again for the last 45 minutes. So there was a chunk in the middle where I only understood 1/25 of what was being said, but caught the drift. When I got to the part where subtitles reappeared, Sunny explains his mysterious 15 year disappearance by being converted into a snake trapped in a basket by Anupan’s evil character, then I was able to catch back up with what was really going on, but I suppose it didn’t really matter. I will go for Nagina though, and maybe the 2nd one was made because the first one had an unsatisfying ending, like you wrote in your review.

By: dw007

dw007 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:36:55 +0000

Wow your brave watching Nigahen!

Nagina 1 was enough WTF for me. Hahaha it looks pretty awful from the screenshots!