Then in 1935 Devdas was directed by Promothesh Barua, and again in 1955 by Bimal Roy. In India after the novel the story began in 1928, with Naresh Mitra’s silent film on it. Earlier this first talkie version was available only in Bangladesh.
CHANDRAMUKHI TELUGU MOVIE ARCHIVE
Most interestingly, in 2015 the Pune-based National Film Archive of India received the first “talkie version” of Devdas from the Bangladesh Film Archive. In Pakistan Devdas was twice made into an Urdu movie, in 20. So how could a novel practically boycotted by a puritan society succeed at the wider box office, in any Indian language?įor film adaptations of Devdas were very successful in Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, Urdu, Malayalam and Telugu (twice). They wouldn’t name their daughters Paaro or Chandramukhi as were associated with Devdas. The mothers of yesteryear would not name their boys Devdas or Chunnilal, as they loved a pyala filled with sharab and hobnobbed with tawaifs. Yet in the realm of Indian literature, Devdas, Chunnilal, Paro and Chandramukhi have grown from characters into types and genres, modes of being. In those days, bhodrolok Bengali babus would not even keep it on their shelves lest the youngsters read it. Can all these productions perhaps be seen as one film, changing with our tastes, always brilliantly succeeding?Īs a novel, Devdas was not at all well received by contemporary literary society. But before we embark on a search for Devdas, let us glimpse the films: the first made in 1928, in the silent era, and the last in 2002. The people of Bhagalpur, particularly old timers, still claim that the characters in Devdas were real, and lived in flesh and blood.īut who was Devdas really? Could it have been the bohemian Sarat himself? Yes! Yes it was, chorus the old timers living on Manik Sarkar Road in the town’s Bengali Tola.ĭevdas is a strange chapter in the literary history of India, both as a novel and film.
It was here that Chattopadhyay wrote Devdas in 1901. BHAGALPUR, BIHAR: Surrendering itself to the concrete jungle that mushroomed in the Mansurganj locality of this town some 45 years ago, the kotha or mansion of the tawaif (courtesan) Kalidasi was recently demolished, tearing a living page from history.ĭevdas, India’s most-made film based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel by the same name, is interwoven with Kalidasi’s Bhagalpur.
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