Devdas (1936 film)

Devdas দেবদাস
Kundan Lal Saigal as Devdas and Jamuna Barua as Parvati in Devdas
Directed by Pramathesh Barua
Screenplay by Pramathesh Barua
Kidar Nath Sharma (dialogue)
Based on Devdas
by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Starring K. L. Saigal
Jamuna Barua
Rajkumari
Music by Rai Chand Boral
Pankaj Mullick
Timir Baran
Lyrics: Kidar Nath Sharma
Cinematography Bimal Roy
Release date
  • 1935 (1935)
Running time
 139 min.
Country British Raj
Language Bengali

Devdas is a 1935[1] Bengali film based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novella, Devdas.[2] Directed by Pramathesh Barua, it stars K.L. Saigal as Devdas, Jamuna Barua as Parvati (Paro) and Rajkumari as Chandramukhi. It was later released in Hindi in 1936 and in Assamese in 1938.

Kundan Lal Saigal and Jamuna Barua in the film

Plot

Devdas (K. L. Saigal) falls in love with Parvati (Jamuna), with whom he has played since childhood and who is the daughter of a poor neighboring family. Devdas goes away to Calcutta for University studies. Meanwhile, Parvati's father arranges her marriage to a much older man. Though she loves Devdas, she obeys her father to suffer in silence like a dutiful Indian wife of those times. Devdas as a result takes to drinking. Chandramukhi (Rajkumari), a dancing girl or "prostitute" he has befriended in Calcutta, falls for him and gives up her profession to try to save him. Parvati, hearing of his decline, comes to see him to steer him away from a life of drinking. Devdas sends her back, saying in his hour of final need he will come to her. She returns to her life of duty. Realising his end is near, Devdas decides to keep his promise and meet Parvati. He journeys all night, reaches her house and is found dead outside the high walls of her house. Inside Parvati hears that Devdas is dead.

Main cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Devdas 1935 National Film Archive of India, nfaipune.nic.in.
  2. ↑ Dedas phenomenon Archived 13 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

Category:Films directed by Pramathesh Barua

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