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Devdas

Genre
Romance
Running Time
185 Minutes
Released
12 July, 2002
Devdas

Devdas is a Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee. Despite being finished in September 1900, the novel was not published until June 1917 due to Chatterjee's hesitance over some autobiographical elements. According to Chatterjee's own words, he wrote it under the influence of alcohol and was embarrassed of the work. The story pivots a tragic triangle linking Devdas, an archetypal lover in viraha; Paro, his forbidden childhood love; and Chandramukhi, a reformed courtesan. Devdas has been adapted on screen 20 times for film and 5 time for single song.

Acerca de Devdas

Devdas returns to India from London with the intention of marrying his childhood love, Paro. Unable to gain his parents approval, she marries another man, and he spirals into alcoholism.

Los logros de Devdas

The film is based on the 1917 book by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, which he wrote when he was 17 years old. It was India's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Bengal Renaissance - The Bengali renaissance or simply Bengal renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual and artistic movement in Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent during the period of the British Indian Empire, from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.. Mujra dance - Mujra is a dance performance by females in a format that emerged in South Asia during the Mughal empire, where the elite class and local rulers like the nawabs of the Indian society used to frequent courtesans for their entertainment at night.. Parinita /Parineeta (1914).. Indian Bengali language novels.. Bengali-language novels.. Novels set in West Bengal.. Indian novels adapted into films.. Love stories.. Novellas.

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