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Devdas

Name: Devdas
Director: Pramathesh Barua
Released: 1935-03-30

1935 Bengali film by Pramathesh Barua

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Released: March 30, 1935
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1.chiloka.com/movie/devdas-1935
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Director: Pramathesh Barua
Screenwriter: Pramathesh Barua
Cast: Pramathesh Barua
, Jamuna Barua
, K. C. Dey
, Kundan Lal Saigal
Runtime: 139 min
Genre: drama film
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0361503/Retrieved 2016-04-14
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Country of origin: British Raj
Original language: Bangla
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1.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-silent-storyteller
2.chiloka.com/movie/devdas-1935
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Devdas is a 1935 Bengali film directed by Pramathesh Barua and based on the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel, Devdas. It stars Barua as Devdas, 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 was released in 1936. K. L. Saigal sang two songs in Tamil for this film.

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Director of photography: Nitin Bose
Narrative location: Kolkata
Color: black-and-white
Based on: Devdas
Title: দেবদাস
State of transmission: lost

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