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Devdas (1935)

Devdas poster
Original title
দেবদাস
Directed by
Pramathesh Barua
Genre
drama film
Country
British Raj
Runtime
2h 19m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man and a woman from different social classes fall in love but cannot be together because of societal rules. The story follows their lifelong separation and the pain it causes them.

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What happens

Devdas is a 1935 Bengali film directed by Pramathesh Barua and based on the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel, Devdas. It stars Barua as Devdas, Jamuna Barua as Parvati (Paro) and Chandrabati Devi as Chandramukhi. This was Barua's first of three language versions of the story, the second being in Hindi and the third in Assamese. The Bengali film was dubbed into Tamil and was released in 1936. K. L. Saigal sang two songs in Tamil for this film. Sharat Chandra Chatterjee's classic novel Devdas is about two lovers - Debdas and Parbati - who can never unite as mortals because of the class system in the society. Sharat Chandra Chaterjee is believed to have been in his teens when he wrote Devdas in 1901. But it was published in 1917. This classic masterpiece sensitively criticizes the feudalistic society that prevailed. All Indian prints of this Bengali version were destroyed decades ago in a fire that ravaged New Theatre’s studios. Currently, there is only one copy of the film which belongs to the Bangladesh Film Archives, of which almost 40 percent is destroyed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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