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Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand .
The pungi is played by Jogi in the Thar desert. [11] It is in particular played by snake charmers, mostly in the Terai and Nepal, to arouse snakes to dance. [12] The instrument has a high, thin tone and continuous low humming. [13] It has been an important instrument in Indian folk culture and is known by various names in different parts of India.
Naagulu, a snake charmer, falls in love with Poorna, whose adopted brother Ravi is in love with Naagulu's cousin Lakshmi. Naagulu's father has been mixing snake venom into his food since childhood, making Naagulu immune to any snake bite.
Pashana Bedhi – An Indian snake-charmer, who lay on a bed of nails and played a pungi. He was very respectful and always addressed Parsley as "Mr. Parsley". Good King Henry – A minor character, who only appears briefly in the series. He was grown from a seed by Bayleaf in order to create a husband for Miss Jessop (having been ordered by ...
The male participants play musical instruments, such as the pungi, a woodwind instrument traditionally played to capture snakes, the dufli, been, the khanjari - a percussion instrument, morchang, khuralio and the dholak to create the rhythm on which the dancers perform. The dancers are tattooed in traditional designs and wear jewelry and ...
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Harano Din (Bengali: হারানো দিন; English: The Lost Days) is a 1961 East Pakistani Bengali-language film directed by Mustafiz [1] and starring Shabnam and Ghulam Mustafa in the lead roles.
Wendy Tuohy of the Australian newspaper The Age stated that Knauf "sprinkled enough magical gifts over the carnival's cast of mind readers, fortunetellers, snake charmers, catatonic psychics, conjoined twins, bearded ladies and lizard men to make the bizarre and the macabre appear just about routine."