Devdas (1935)

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Movie
Original title Devdas
Country of production India
original language Bengali
Publishing year 1935
length 139 minutes
Rod
Director Pramathesh Chandra Barua
script Pramathesh Chandra Barua
production New theaters
music Timir Baran
camera Yusuf Mulji , Sudhin Majumdar , Dilip Gupta
occupation

Devdas ( Bengali : দেবদাস , debdās) is an Indian film in Bengali by Pramathesh Chandra Barua from 1935. It is the second film adaptation of the 1917 novel by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay .

action

Devdas, the son of a rich landowner ( Zamindar ), and Parvati (called Paro), the daughter of the poor neighbor, have been friends since childhood. The difference in status and caste stands in the way of their marriage. While Devdas goes to study in Kolkata, Paro is married to a rich old widower.

Devdas often meets the prostitute Chandramukhi in town and his way of life also drives him into alcoholism . Chandramukhi and Paro try to stop him. He rejects Paro and promises her to come to her shortly before his death.

Devdas - realizing that Paro is his true love - drives the night to her on the train. He dies in front of her house. When she finds out, he's already dead.

background

BN Sircars film company New Theaters produced the second film adaptation of Sharatchandra's popular socially critical novel after Naresh Mitras Devdas from 1928. Barua shot this film in Bengali and almost simultaneously a 1: 1 remake of it in Hindi with Kundan Lal Saigal in the title role.

Saigal already played a small role as a brothel visitor in Bengali films and sang the songs Kahare Je Jodathe Chai and Golab Huey Uthuk Phutey in Bengali. It was his debut in Bengali film, where he appeared frequently in the 1930s.

The film was considered lost for a long time until a copy emerged in Bangladesh in the 1990s. One of the characteristics of the film often cited by critics is its use of the parallel cut , which expresses Indian ideas of the dominance of Providence over individual fate - as in a scene in which Devdas wallows in delirium, Parvati stumbles, and Devdas stumbles on his next cut Plank falls.

In 1936 New Theaters brought out a Tamil version with PV Rao as director, in which Saigal also sang two songs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema . P. 262