The desire to live) is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rajasekhar and produced by AVM Productions.

The film stars Mithun Chakraborty, Rakesh Roshan, Rati Agnihotri, Bindiya Goswami and Sujit Kumar.

[1] Before dying, the village priest curses the snake charmer, Raka for killing him and making his son Ravi (Rakesh Roshan) an orphan.

Poor Ravi is taken care of by the village landlord who adopts him and makes him the brother of his daughter Poonam.

His only son Nagraj (Mithun Chakraborty) becomes the victim of the curse where he will be incarnated as a snake, killing anyone who makes contact with him.