Nagin

Awards

Album Awards:
• 1955 - Filmfare Awards - Best Music Director - Hemant Kumar

Trivia

Album

• This was the biggest hit of 1954 and established Vyjayanthimala as one of the leading Hindi film heroines of the time.
• The success of this film and its music was an inflection point in the Hindi film career of Hemant Kumar. After S. Mukerji of Filmistan gave him a break in "Anand Math" (1952), the music director started feeling homesick and wanted to return to Calcutta. However, Mukerji told him that he would not let him go back till he had given him a hit musical score. The music director persevered and eventually delivered the hit music of this film. Hemant Kumar composed the music for three other Filmistan productions the same year after this film - "Jagriti" (1954), "Shart" (1954) and "Samrat" (1954).[1][2][3][4][5]

Song

• Been Music - This famous instrumental theme was not played on the been but on an early keyboard instrument called clavioline. The musician who played the clavioline was Kalyanji Virji Shah, who went on to build a very successful career as a music director, first on his own and later as one half of the Kalyanaji - Anandji duo. Kalyanji had first heard about the clavioline from Dilip Dholakia who was assisting music director Chitragupta at the time. Before this instrumental piece, he had reproduced a been-like sound using the clavioline for the interludes of the song "O Naag Kahin Jaa Basiyo Re" ("Naag Panchami", 1953).[6][MR6][MR66]
• Been Music - This was the first time Ravi received credit as a music director in Hindi films. He also played the harmonium along with Kalyanji Virji Shah's clavioline to produce the been sound in this instrumental piece. Ravi was Hemant Kumar's assistant in several films including this one before striking out independently. He debuted as a music director in "Vachan" (1955).[7][8]
• Been Music - This popular instrumental piece was sampled by music director Pritam in the Hindi film song "Twist" ("Love Aaj Kal", 2009). It was heard again in "Haan Main Galat" ("Love Aaj Kal", 2020) which sampled "Twist" ("Love Aaj Kal", 2009).[9][10]
• Been Music - A blogger claimed that Ravi told him in an interview that the original tune for this musical piece was created by the pianist Lucilla Pacheco. He modified Pacheco's tune to give it an Indian flavour. This information has not been substantiated by any other source.[11]

1. ^ Rewind: In Which Hemant Kumar Describes Guru Dutt as "Ruthless"
2. ^ Anand Math (1952)
3. ^ Jagriti (1954)
4. ^ Shart (1954)
5. ^ Samrat (1954)
6. ^ O Naag Kahin Jaa Basiyo Re (Naag Panchami, 1953)
7. ^ Vachan (1955)
8. ^ Rewind: In Which Hemant Kumar Describes Guru Dutt as "Ruthless"
9. ^ Twist (Love Aaj Kal, 2009)
10. ^ Haan Main Galat (Love Aaj Kal, 2020)
11. ^ Who created the classic been music in Man Dole, Mera Tan Dole?