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Devdas (1936 film)

Field	Value
name	Devdas
image	Devdas Saigal.jpg
caption	Poster
director	Pramathesh Barua
screenplay	Pramathesh Barua
Kidar Nath Sharma (dialogue)
based_on
starring	K. L. Saigal
Jamuna Barua
Rajkumari
Sultana
music	Rai Chand Boral
Pankaj Mullick
Timir Baran
Lyrics: Kidar Nath Sharma
cinematography	Bimal Roy
released
runtime	139 minutes
country	India
language	Hindustani

Kidar Nath Sharma (dialogue) Jamuna Barua Rajkumari Sultana Pankaj Mullick Timir Baran Lyrics: Kidar Nath Sharma

Devdas is a 1936 Hindi-language Indian drama romance film based on the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novella, Devdas. Directed by Pramathesh Barua, it stars K.L. Saigal as Devdas, Jamuna Barua as Parvati (Paro) and Rajkumari as Chandramukhi. This was Barua's second of three language versions, the first being in Bengali and the third in Assamese.

[[Kundan Lal Saigal]] and [[Jamuna Barua]] in the film

Plot

Devdas falls in love with Parvati, with whom he has played since childhood and who is the daughter of a poor neighbouring 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 daughter and wife of those times. Devdas, as a result, takes to drinking. Chandramukhi, a dancing girl or courtesan (tawaif) 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 the house, Parvati hears from her stepson Mohan, that Devdas is dead. Grief-stricken at this news, Parvati attempts to run out of her house, in order to pay a last visit to his beloved. But her husband orders the main gate to be closed, as it was a social taboo at that time, to not let women step out of the periphery of their in-laws' residence. Consequently, Paro fails to run out, trips over, and the main gate is shut in front of her. A dead Devdas is taken to the cemetery and cremated by the local people.

Cast

;Male

K. L. Saigal as Devdas
A. H. Shore as Chunilal
Pahari as A Friend
K. C. Dey as Bairagi (Blind Singer)
Pramathesh Barua alias Mr. Raju as Mohan
Biswanath as Narayan
Yusuf Attia as Rai Saheb
Kailash as Ramdas
Nemo as Dharmadas
Kedar as Jagannath
Kapoor as Cart Driver ;Female
Jamuna as Parbati
Sultana as Parvati
Rajakumari as Chandra
Khettrabala as Piyari
Sitara as Monorama
Ramkumari as Padma
Hemnalini as Parbati's Mother
Sahana as Jasodha
Roshanara as Maid Servant

Soundtrack

References

Wikipedia Source

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