The weeklong film festival Ekagra organised in the memory of evergreen Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, kicked off with the classic movie Devdas.
The film was screened at Bharat Bhavan here on Tuesday.
Devdas is a 1955 Indian Drama movie irected by Bimal Roy, based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel Devdas The film had Dilip Kumar in the title role and Vyjayanthimala in her first dramatic role where she played as Chandramukhi, a hooker with a heart of gold and Suchitra Sen in her Bollywood debut as Parvati in the lead. Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Murad, Pratima Devi, Iftekhar and Shivraj were playing other significant roles with Pran and Johnny Walker in extended cameo appearances.
Set against the backdrop of rural Bengal during feudal times, Devdas is a young man from a wealthy Bengali Brahmin family in India in the early 1900s. Paro, alias Parvati is a young woman from a middle-class Bengali Brahmin family, but belonging to a slightly lower status in terms of caste, affluence, and status.
Childhood lovers Devdas and Paro decide to get married to each other. When Paro's grandmother (Sarita Devi) makes the proposal to Devdas' mother (Pratima Devi), the latter rejects her.
To demonstrate his own social status, Paro's father, Nilkant (Shivraj) then finds an even richer husband for
Paro. When Paro's grandmother (Sarita Devi) makes the proposal to Devdas' mother (Pratima Devi), the latter rejects her. To demonstrate his own social status, Paro's father, Nilkant (Shivraj) then finds an even richer husband for Paro.