Sapera (1939) starring Pahadi Sanyal, Kanan Devi, Krishna Chandra Dey, Menaka Devi, Shyam Laha, Satya Mukherjee, Nawab, Prithviraj Kapoor, Vikram Kapoor.
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 ( The soundtrack features songs like Daal Daal Aur Kunj Kunj Kis Pi Ko Dhundhe Ri, Man Mere Aandhi Ban Ja sung by Kanan Devi, Menaka Devi, Phari Sanyal.
