Hindi    Jan 01, 1935 (India)

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Devdas is a 1935 Indian Bollywood drama, romance, social film released on Jan 01, 1935. The film is directed by Pramathesh Barua, produced by Nasir Hussain under banner named New Theatres (P) Ltd..
Devdas (Saigal/Barua), son of a zamindar, and Parvati (aka Paro) (Jamuna), his poor neighbours daughter, are childhood sweethearts. Status and caste differences prevent their marriage and Devdas is sent to Calcutta while Paro is married of to an aged but rich widower. In Calcutta the hero meets the prostitute Chandramukhi (Rajkumari/ Chandrabati Devi) but remorse drives him to after and (after long train journey in which he attempts to run away from himself) he comes to die infront of his true loves house. Saratchandras classic novel which touched a sensative nerve with its implied criticism of the spinlessness of the fedual elite, later became a favourite source for films after Saigals influential performance. The weak and narcissitic hero, esp. as played by Saigal (confirmed by his major hit song Dukh ke din ab beetat nahin), later grew into a Wrether-type cult figure as the story, first filmed into the silent period by Naresh Mitra (1928) was remade in Hindi by Bimal Roy with Dilip Kumar (1955) and twice in Telegu (by Vedantam Raghavaiah in 1953 with A. Nagashwara Rao; and by Vijayanirmala in 1974 starring Krishna). The film has become a mythological reference point for Hindi melodrama: in Ramesh Saigals realist Phir Subah Hogi (1958), Raj Kapoor is taunted for being a Devdas and Guru Dutt used the story as an undercurrent both Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959). Bimal Roys hypercative camera and sophisticated lighting techniques (e.g. the use of green filters to create a negative effect of black shy above white bushes and grass) contrasts with the static acting style, generating an uncanny emotional resonance reinforced by the dynamic, even destored editing. Baruas Hindi version is strictly a remake of the orginal Bengali in which Barua played the lead. This version was believed lost until a print was recently discovered in Bangladesh. Saigal who plays Devdas in the Hindi version, had a sensational walk-on part in the Benglai film as one of the visitors to a brothel, singing Kahare je jodtha chai and Golab juey uthuk phuttey. This was his Bengli debut and the procedures, unsure of his accent and whether a non Bengali singing Bengali songs would be acceptable to the audience, got the author Sarathchandras personal approval (as his argument in favour was apparently that Bengalis were not the only people who frequented brothels). Saigal later acted in several Bengali films at New Theatre Most contemporary critics mention the use of parallel cutting, suggesting this technique had a startling impact at the time. The montage of Devdas crying out in derilium, Parvati stumbling and then Devdas falling from his berth in the train, was described as a telepathic sequences, sometimes commended for its essential Indiannes in conveying fates dominion over individual destiny. Ritwik Ghatak admired the film greatly and often used it to teach film students about cinemtography. [Source: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema] Check out this page for more updates on Devdas.

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