Devdas

The Bengali language film adaptation of Saratchandra Chatterjee's novel by P. C. Barua. Devdas, the son of a zamindar, and Parvati, his neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. Status and caste differences prevent their marriage and Devdas is sent off to Calcutta, while Paro is married off to an aged rich widower. In Calcutta, Devdas meets the prostitute, Chandramukhi, but remorse drives him to alcohol. All Indian prints of this Bengali version were destroyed in a fire that ravaged New Theatre’s studios. Today only one copy of the film survives which belongs to the Bangladesh Film Archives. Of that copy almost forty percent is destroyed