Watch These Workers Demand Better Roads By Performing The ‘Nagin Dance’ As Protest!
The Nagin Dance. It's something men don't want to talk about, or even remember the awkwardness of. No one knows when it started, but the notion of dudes flailing about like snakes, while other dudes play an imaginary been is the trashy show-starter of weddings. It’s the only dance you can’t get wrong, even if the video of the drunk you performing it at a wedding, embarrasses you next morning.
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Last week, the nagin dance was unleashed by incredibly enthusiastic protesters at a Public Works Department in Buldhana District, Maharashtra. According to media reports, these weren't any ordinary folks, but National Congress Party (NCP) workers who freaked out senior officials with the 'Nagina' OST and corresponding dance moves. They were reportedly protesting delayed road constructions, despite the PWD having received the road contract 4 years ago.
Roads near Chhatrapati Shivaji Market are in poor conditions,despite several complaints PWD didn't tke action: Local pic.twitter.com/plWYOrgUKU
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 29, 2016
According to the Times of India, a Google search reveals over 4 lakh results for 'Nagin', many of which might be performances at weddings across Punjab, Haryana, and even Pakistan.
WATCH: Locals do 'Nagin dance' in PWD office in Buldhana (Maharashtra) as a mark of protest against PWD's apathyhttps://t.co/MCRWZI2OhX
— ANI (@ANI_news) April 29, 2016
The dance move possibly got a pop culture debut from the Rishi Kapoor-Sridevi film 'Nagina' (1986): of an icchadhari (form-changing) snakewoman.
The Indian Tomb (1959)
The world is divided into two categories of people: those who have seen Debra Paget's divine snake dance and those who haven't. Dressed in nothing but jewel-like conical accessories, rather miraculously glued to her essentials, Hollywood's Ms Paget wiggles in a manner worthy of any Olympian gymnast. The show has over 2.3 million views and undeniably this para will add to the numbers.
Nagin (1954)
Man dole mera tan dole, the original Nagin song which stood at no 2 on Binaca Geet Mala's annual chart, brought the sound of the been to the masses. The truth is that the sound came from a clay violin, used by music director Hemant Kumar on the advice of his assistant Kalyanji (the other of Anandji), who also played it. Classically-trained Vyjayanthimala plays the pining lover seduced by the music.
Bride and Prejudice
A rare hilarious moment in this badly made Amritsari-version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the riotous nagin dance by the incredibly supple Meghna Kothari.
Guide (1966)
Waheeda Rehman's discovery of life and its abandon via a cathartic dance in a snake charmer's colony has a bit of the nagin act too.
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