![]() ![]() Barua cast himself as Devdas in the (recently rediscovered) Bengali version, and the legendary pre-playback singing star K. (Pramathesh Chandra) Barua, son of the Raja of Gauripur. An adaptation starring Phani Burma (later a notable Bengali director) was filmed in 1928 by Naresh Chandra Mitra, but the first widely influential version was directed simultaneously in Hindi and Bengali in 1935 for New Theatres by P.C. The story has since become one of the touchstones of popular Indian cinema. The tragic triangle linking the self-destructive Devdas, his forbidden childhood love Paro and the reformed prostitute Chandramukhi was first told in the popular and influential 1917 Bengali novella by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938).
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