Devdas (1935)
March 30, 1935Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Nirmal Bannerjee
Actor
Chandrabati Devi
Chandramukhi
Jamuna Barua
Parvati
P.C. Barua
Devdas
Manoranjan Bhattacharya
Actor
Dinesh Ranjan Das
Actor
K.L. Saigal
Cameo (guest at Chandramukhi's house)
Saratchandra Chatterjee
Writer
Timir Baran
Composer
Dilip Gupta
Cinematographer
Sudhin Majumdar
Cinematographer
Yusuf Mulji
Cinematographer
Prabhavati
Amar Mullick
Sailen Pal
Ahi Sanyal
Krishna Chandra Dey
Playback Singer
Nirmal Banerjee
Details.
Wiki.
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.)
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.