An Objective view of the Nagin series

 Shraddha Kapoor

                                                          Sridevi

I have to admire Shraddha Kapoor as she takes on the role of Nagin, the shapeshfting Godess, why?

This is a role her aunt, Sridevi, made her own in the late 70's, comparrison are going to be hard to avoid, both from being family, and being similiar in appearance.

I aim to be able to give an objective view on the series, as I have most of the series on DVD, including the original 1954 version; there you go Harry Potter fans, one of the characters J.K. Rowling uses is from a Hindi movie older than your grandparents. There are some films that use Nagin, yet are not connected, I had one, it was terrible, even that Akshay Kumar was in it.

I am going to judge the films on the technology available at the time; I know the older rims won't stand up to modern scruting, yet, one film in the late 80's is so bad, even Rekha - one of my Bollywood favourites can't save it - having Rishi Kapoor in didn't help, but it isn't his fault the film is this bad.

Rishi appears in another version with Sridevi.

The earliest version has another of my favourite ladies from the early cinema of India in, she is Vyjayanthimala, who despite being in her late 80's is still considered a beauty.

To end this article, I will say, I have no intention of watching the Nagin series brought out in 2017, why?

I cannot see how you can turn an excellent film into a series of over 100 1/2 hour shows, and keep true to the story, let alone destroy the meaning.