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Devdas (1955)

Name: Devdas (1955)
Director: Bimal Roy
Released: 1955
Duration: 2 h 35 min 34 s

देवदास

Hindi film

by Bimal Roy 1955G General

Drama romance

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Directed by: Bimal Roy
Produced by: Bimal Roy
Written by: Nabendu Ghosh, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Saratchandra Chatterjee
Screenplay by: Nabendu Ghosh
Story by: Saratchandra Chatterjee
Dialogue by: Rajinder Singh Bedi
Music by: Sachin Dev Burman
Lyrics by: Sahir Ludhianvi
Singers: Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Mubarak Begum, Talat Mahmood, Usha Mangeshkar
Cinematography: Kamal Bose
Edited by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Production design: Sudhendu Roy
Cast: Vyjayanthimala, Dilip Kumar, Roma Dasgupta, Iftekhar, Pran, Murad

Description

Devdas and Paro grow up together in a Bengal village and are meant for each other, but his proud family rejects the match because hers is of lower standing. Too weak to defy his father, Devdas lets her go; Paro is married to an older widower, and Devdas drifts to Calcutta, where his friend Chunni Babu introduces him to drink and to Chandramukhi, a courtesan who comes to love him selflessly. Bimal Roy's adaptation of Sarat Chandra's novel is often counted as the finest of its many film versions. Dilip Kumar's restrained, haunted performance won him the Filmfare award for Best Actor and cemented his image as the tragedy king. Suchitra Sen made her Hindi debut as Paro, and Vyjayanthimala won a Filmfare award for Chandramukhi, which she famously declined, feeling it was a lead role.

The songs

Mitwa Lagi Yeh Kaisi — Talat Mehmood
Kisko Khabar Thi — Talat Mehmood
Jise Tu Kabool Karle — Lata Mangeshkar
Ab Aage Teri Marzi — Lata Mangeshkar
O AaneWale Ruk Ja — Lata Mangeshkar
Woh Na Ayenge Paltkar — Mubarak Begum
Aan Milo Aan Milo — Manna Dey, Geeta Dutt
Sajan Ki Ho Gayi Gori — Manna Dey, Geeta Dutt
Manzil Ki Chah Mein — Mohammad Rafi, Chorus
O Albele Panchi — Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar

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Devdas (Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, 1917) — not in this catalogue yet
The Bengali novel, filmed more than a dozen times in several languages. Bimal Roy's is the version the others are measured against.

The same people, elsewhere

Same script writer and music director: Abhimaan (1973)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Nabendu Ghosh wrote the screenplay of them; Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote the dialogue of them - 18 years apart.
Same script writer and singer: Anupama (1966)
Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote the dialogue of both - 11 years apart.
Same director and music director: Bandini (1963)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Kamal Bose photographed them.
Same script writer and photographer: Dastak (1970)
Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote both; Kamal Bose photographed them; Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut them - 15 years apart.
Same photographer: Dayavan (1988)
Kamal Bose photographed both - 33 years apart.
Same photographer and actor: Dharmatma (1975)
Kamal Bose photographed both - 20 years apart.
Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar's Devdas is on Forbes's list of the 25 greatest performances in Indian cinema, and fixed the character as a type the language still uses: a self-destructive lover is called a Devdas in ordinary conversation.
Same photographer and editor: Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
Kamal Bose photographed both; Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut them.
Same music director: Gambler (1971)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both - 16 years apart.
Insaan (1982)
Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote the dialogue for Devdas and for Insaan, which his son Narendra Bedi directed - the Urdu short-story writer putting words in Dilip Kumar's mouth in 1955 and in his son's film in the seventies.
Same music director and singer: Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
The film Suresh Sinha is making inside Kaagaz Ke Phool is Devdas, and the Devdas this catalogue holds - Bimal Roy's, with Dilip Kumar - came out four years earlier.
Same script writer and singer: Lal Patthar (1971)
Nabendu Ghosh wrote the screenplay of both - 16 years apart.
Same director and script writer: Madhumati (1958)
Bimal Roy directed and produced both; Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote the dialogue of them; Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut them.
Same music director and editor: Mili (1975)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut them - 20 years apart.
Same script writer and photographer: Musafir (1957)
Rajinder Singh Bedi's dialogue and Kamal Bose's camera on both - Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut Devdas, then took most of Bimal Roy's unit with him to make his own first film.
Same director and photographer: Parakh (1960)
Bimal Roy again, with Kamal Bose photographing both.
Same script writer and music director: Phagun (1973)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote them; Hrishikesh Mukherjee cut them - 18 years apart.
Same music director and lyricist: Pyaasa (1957)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both.
Same script writer and actor: Rungoli (1962)
Rajinder Singh Bedi wrote both.
Same music director and photographer: Sujata (1959)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both; Kamal Bose photographed them.
Same music director: Teen Devian (1965)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both - 10 years apart.
Same music director: Tyaag (1977)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both - 22 years apart.
Same music director: Zindagi Zindagi (1972)
Sachin Dev Burman wrote the music of both - 17 years apart.

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