Film poster for the Hindi film 'Nagin' (female serpent), released in the year 1976.
The poster, made with the cut and paste technique, features multiple characters from the film. In
the frame of the poster, towards the left, there is an image of a snake's hood, overlapping with
which is an image of the character Nagin, played by Reena Roy. To the right of this image, along
the top border, first comes an image of the character Professor Vijay holding a revolver, played
by Sunil Dutt. To the right of this image is a cut out of the character Sunita, played by Rekha. Towards
the top right corner is a face cut-out of the character Sapera (snake charmer), played by Prem
Nath. Below his image along the right border, there is a bust-length image of the character Raj
holding a revolver, which is played by Feroz Khan. Below his image is the character Suraj, also
holding a revolver. The character is played by Sanjay Khan. Along the bottom border, there is a
full-length image of the characters Naag, the male serpent played by Jeetendra and Nagin, the
female serpent, played by Reena Roy, laying together, one behind the other. Along the silhouette
of the bodies, the film title is printed in Devanagari diagonally. Right above the film title is the
producer's name. On the bottom border, from left to right, the other film credits are printed as
'MUSIC LAXMIKANT PYARELAL'. Towards the bottom right corner is 'LYRICS VERMA MALLICK'.
On the top area of the poster, 'CINEMASCOPE' is printed centrally. Along the right border, in the
bottom half, the artist's name is printed in a vertical fashion as 'AMAR ARTS'.
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