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Devdasa (1937)

Devdasa poster
Genre
drama film
Country
British Raj

How it feels

This film is a Tamil adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's story about a man named Devdas who cannot marry the woman he loves because of family and social pressures. It follows his emotional spiral and self-destructive path as he tries to cope with his loss.

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What happens

Devdasa est un film indien en tamoul réalisé par P. V. Rao en 1937. Il s'agit de la dernière des trois adaptations cinématographiques de la nouvelle éponyme de Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (1917) produite par le studio New Theatres après les versions bengali et hindie de P.C. Barua sorties sur les écrans en 1935. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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