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Devdas Box Office: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Spent 50% Budget On Sets Alone, Only To Deliver The Most Expensive Indian Film (Then) With Fruitful 127% Higher Earnings Worldwide!

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s directorial Devdas is special for so many reasons. From its grandeur to its powerful cast and Shreya Ghoshal‘s debut in Bollywood, there are many reasons to be grateful for.
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‘Devdas has become an adjective rather than an out and out character’: Author Aayush Gupta

Devdas… Paro… Chandramukhi… the very names create visions of opulence, huge mansions and elitism. Cut to 2022, when the three characters are college-goers ...
The Asian Age

Bringing Devdas, the mother of all unfulfilled love stories to the stage

For everyone who has leafed through Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1917 Bengali romance novel Devdas, they know that the author had created a complex labyrinth of human emotions that left not only the ...
Koimoi

Indian filmmakers have made their mark in world cinema by showcasing relatable, universal emotions through their content.

Actor Adarsh Gourav gets nominated in BAFTA 2021 for The White Tiger | Five Indian films that went to British Academy of Film and Television Arts(Photo Credit – Imdb) India @ BAFTA: For a filmmaker, ...
The Daily Star

How Dhallywood brought Sarat Chandra’s ‘Devdas’ to the screen

Today marks the 150th birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. For nearly a century, his stories and characters have influenced cinema across the Indian subcontinent. He was born on this day ...
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‘Devdas’ to ‘Daas Dev’: What torch songs say about Indian cinema’s favourite tragic hero

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bengali novel Devdas has inspired filmmakers across languages in the 100 years since its publication. The list of directors who have adapted and interpreted the ...
rediff.com

Why Shah Rukh Khan played Devdas

'Unlike the Shah Rukh Khan in Darr, Baazigar, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, there's an amazing child-like vulnerability and honesty in the Shah Rukh of Devdas.' Devdas was the ...
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PC Barua was the original Devdas, on and off the screen

For the first time in the history of the Indian talkies, Pramathesh directed and acted in and as Devdas, bringing this literary character to life on screen for all time to come. Sarat Chandra ...
Hindustan Times

That Devdas saga

Before undertaking Devdas under his own banner, Bimal Roy treated Saratchandra themes with rare sensitivity in Parineeta and Biraj Bahu. HT Image Now, there was this deadly debate about who should be ...
BBC

Devdas Film Review

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. Devdas is the third film to come from Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and even before it's fate at the box office is decided, he's ...
BBC

Devdas Music Review

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. Devdas has the same classical touches that Darbar's last album did. 'Silsila ye chaahat ka' is sung by Shreya Ghosal, who's name I've ...
NDTV

Why Shah Rukh Khan is Tweeting About Devdas

New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan's 2002 tearjerker Devdas released exactly 14 years ago and on Tuesday, the fan-trended hashtag #14YearsOfDevdas received a boost with a tweet from SRK himself. 'Late nights, ...