Devdas (1936)

Original title

देवदास

Directed by

Pramathesh Barua

Genre

drama film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 21m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man from a wealthy family, Devdas, falls in love with his childhood friend Paro but societal and family pressures drive them apart. He spirals into self-destruction while a courtesan named Chandramukhi offers him comfort.

melancholictragicslow-burnromanticyearningheartbreakingemotionalintimate

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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