Devdas and Paro grow up as neighbours and playmates in a Bengal village, and their bond turns into love. But Devdas is the son of a proud landowning family, and when Paro's family proposes marriage, his parents refuse because of their lower standing. Devdas hesitates at the moment that matters, Paro is married to an older widower, and he goes to Calcutta, where he takes to drink and meets the courtesan Chandramukhi, who comes to love him. This 1935 film, made at New Theatres in Calcutta in Bengali and Hindi, was the first big screen version of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel and set the pattern for every Devdas that followed. K. L. Saigal plays the Hindi Devdas, and his songs, including Balam Aaye Baso More Man Mein and Dukh Ke Ab Din Beetat Nahin, became immortal. Bimal Roy, who later remade the story in 1955, was the cinematographer.
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