Devdas (1935 film)

Devdas is a 1935 Bengali film directed by Pramathesh Barua and based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel, Devdas. It stars Barua himself as Devdas and 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 released in 1936. K. L. Saigal sang two songs in Tamil for this film.(See Ext. links for a link.)

For Bengali novel, see Devdas. For other uses, see Devdas (disambiguation).

Devdas
Pramathesh Barua and Jamuna Barua in a sequence of the film
Directed byPramathesh Barua
Screenplay byPramathesh Barua
Based onDevdas
by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Produced byNew Theatres Ltd
Starring
Cinematography
  • Dilip Gupta
  • Sudhin Majumdar
  • Yusuf Mulji
  • Nitin Bose
Edited bySubodh Mitra
Music by
  • Timir Baran
  • Raichand Boral
  • Pankaj Mullik
Distributed byAurora Film Corporation
Release date
30 March 1935
Running time
141 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

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 be 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.

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