''Devdas'' is a

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Hindi-language Indian drama romance film based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novella, '' Devdas''. Directed by

Pramathesh Barua Pramathesh Chandra Barua (24 October 1903 – 29 November 1951) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Indian films in the pre-independence era, born in Gauripur, Assam, Gauripur, Dhubri district, Dhubri, Assam. Early life Barua w ...

, it stars K.L. Saigal as Devdas,

Jamuna Barua Jamuna Barua (10 October 1919 – 24 November 2005) was a leading Indian actress. Early life Jamuna was the fourth of the six daughters of Puran Gupta, a resident of a village near Agra, India. Each of the sisters was named after an Indian r ...

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. DEVDAS1936-1

Plot

Devdas falls in love with Parvati, with whom he has played since childhood and who is the daughter of a poor neighbouring family. Devdas goes away to

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for University studies. Meanwhile, Parvati's father arranges her marriage to a much older man. Though she loves Devdas, she obeys her father to suffer in silence like a dutiful Indian wife of those times. Devdas, as a result, takes to drinking. Chandramukhi, a dancing girl or courtesan ( tawaif) he has befriended in Calcutta, falls for him and gives up her profession to try to save him. Parvati, hearing of his decline, comes to see him to steer him away from a life of drinking. Devdas sends her back, saying in his hour of final need he will come to her. She returns to her life of duty. Realising his end is near, Devdas decides to keep his promise and meet Parvati. He journeys all night, reaches her house and is found dead outside the high walls of her house. Inside Parvati hears from her stepson Mohan, that Devdas is dead. Grief-stricken at this news, Parvati attempts to run out of her house, in order to pay a last visit to his beloved. But her husband orders the main gate to be closed, as it was a social taboo at that time, not to let women step out of the periphery of their in-laws' residence. Consequently, Paro fails to run out, trips over, and the main gate is shut in front of her. A dead Devdas is taken to the cemetery and cremated by the local people.

Cast

;Male * K. L. Saigal as Devdas *A. H. Shore as Chunilal * Pahari as A Friend * K. C. Dey as Bairagi (Blind Singer) *

alias Mr. Raju as Mohan *Biswanath as Narayan *Yusuf Attia as Rai Saheb *Kailash as Ramdas *Nemo as Dharmadas * Kedar as Jagannath *Kapoor as Cart Driver ;Female * Jamuna as Parbati * Sultana as Parvati *Rajakumari as

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*Khettrabala as Piyari * Sitara as Monorama *Ramkumari as Padma *Hemnalini as Parbati's Mother *Sahana as Jasodha *Roshanara as Maid Servant

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External links

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Full movie on Youtube
(best quality online)
Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
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