At the brothel, he meets a good-hearted courtesan named Chandramukhi, who falls in love with him. He leaves a letter for Paro, falsely stating that love had never existed between them.
When Devdas' father also rejects Paro, Devdas leaves his parents' house and takes refuge at a brothel.
Devastated, Sumitra hastily arranges Paro's marriage to a man, named Bhuvan, a forty-year-old widower aristocrat with three grown children, who is wealthier than Devdas' family. Sumitra publicly announces her desire for Devdas and Paro to marry, but Kaushalya rejects and humiliates her in public by saying that she is from a lower-class family. Everyone believes that Devdas and Paro will get married, but Devdas' scheming sister-in-law Kumud reminds Kaushalya of Paro's maternal lineage of nautch girls and nautanki performers, which is inappropriate for Devdas' family. When Devdas returns, their friendship turned into love. When Devdas was sent to London, Paro had lit an oil lamp to prompt his return and never allowed it to extinguish. The latter's daughter, Parvati aka Paro, and Devdas share a deep friendship rooted in childhood. She tells her neighbour, Sumitra, who is overjoyed. In the 1900s, Kaushalya hears that her younger son, Devdas, is about to return home after leaving ten years ago for law school in London. It won several accolades, including five National Film Awards and eleven Filmfare Awards the latter includes trophies for Best Film, Best Director (Bhansali), Best Actor (Khan), Best Actress (Rai), and Best Supporting Actress (Dixit). The film was a commercial success and emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of the year, earning ₹998.8 million (US$13 million) in both India and overseas. The film got mixed-to-negative reviews when it premiered at Cannes, but was better received when it was theatrically released. It was the most expensive Indian film ever made at the time, with a budget of ₹500 million (US$6.6 million). While Ismail Darbar and Birju Maharaj composed the soundtrack, Monty Sharma composed the background score.ĭevdas premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on and was released worldwide on 12 July that year. Principal photography was handled by Binod Pradhan from November 2000 to April 2002, taking place in Bikaner, Film City, and Filmistan. Along with Bhansali and other crews, he did extensive research on Calcuttan building design from the period of the British Raj.
Nitin Chandrakant Desai built the sets between August 2000 and May 2001 and spent ₹200 million (US$2.7 million). The screenplay was written by him and Prakash Ranjit Kapadia, who also wrote the dialogue. However, the rejection of their marriage by his own family sparks his descent into alcoholism, ultimately leading to his emotional deterioration and him seeking refuge with the golden-hearted courtesan Chandramukhi (Dixit).īhansali was inspired to remake the novel into a film after reading it for a second time, and announced the project in November 1999. Based on the 1917 novel of the same name by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the film narrates the story of Devdas Mukherjee (Khan), a wealthy law graduate who returns from London to marry his childhood friend, Parvati "Paro" (Rai). It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit, with Kirron Kher, Smita Jaykar, and Vijayendra Ghatge in supporting roles. Devdas is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language epic romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bharat Shah under his banner, Mega Bollywood.
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