The Dialogue of Devdas

The Dialogue of Devdas
Author: Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher: Om Books International
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012
Genre: Devdas (Motion picture : 1955)
ISBN: 938006988X

Devdas is the title of a 1920s novella by the farmed Bengali writer saratchandra chatterjee. It became so popular that 15 film versions were made in various Indian Languages and periods. Bimal Roy's 1955 film is considered the finest as it sensitively tells the tragic love story between Devdas (Dilip Kumar), the son of Brahmin landlord Aand Parvati (suchita sen) his childhood sweetheart. Caste and class difference keep the lovers apart. Parvati is married of to a rich older man and devdas, who allows Chandramukhi (Vijayanthimala), a selfless prostitute, to help him at first, but ultimately finding no meaning to life, he takes to drink. The Dialogue of Devdas will be presented in a four language format: Hindi, Urdu, Romanised Hindi, Urdu and English translation. Forewords by Bimal Roy's Family and extensive commentary are also featured.

Devdas

Devdas
Author: Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Calcutta (India)
ISBN: 9780143029267

One Of The Most Enduring Love Stories Of Our Times. First Published In Bengali In 1917, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay'S Tragic Tale Of Devdas Has Become Synonymous With A Passionate, Intense Love That Does Not Find Consummation. It Is The Story Of Devdas And Paro, Childhood Sweethearts Who Are Torn Apart When Devdas Is Sent Away To Calcutta By His Father, The Local Zamindar. When Devdas Returns To His Village, Now A Handsome Lad Of Nineteen, Paro Asks Him To Marry Her. But Devdas Is Unable To Stand Up To Parental Opposition To The Match And Rejects The Proposition. Stunned, Paro Agrees To Marry An Elderly Widower. Devdas Returns To Calcutta, But Every Waking Hour Of His Is Now Filled With Thoughts Of Paro And His Unfulfilled Love For Her. Desperate To Resolve The Situation Somehow, He Runs To Paro Who Is Now Married And Asks Her To Elope With Him, But She Refuses. Heartbroken, He Seeks Solace In Alcohol And In The Company Of The Courtesan Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi Falls In Love With Devdas, But Even When He Is With Her He Can Only Think Of Paro. It Is Now His Destiny To Hurtle On Relentlessly On The Path To Self-Destruction. Devdas S Tortured Life Ends When, Dying Of A Liver Ailment Brought On By Alcoholism, He Journeys To Paro S House To See Her One Last Time. Arriving In The Middle Of The Night, He Dies Unknown, Untended, On Her Doorstep. Paro Comes To Know Of His Death Only The Following Morning. Devdas Has Enthralled Readers And Filmgoing Audiences Alike For The Better Part Of A Century. This New Translation Brings The Classic Tale Of Star-Crossed Lovers Alive For A New Generation Of Readers. The Classic Novel Brought To Life In A New, Lucid, Extremely Readable Translation.

Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema

Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema
Author: Cornelius Crowley
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443878545

This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.

SRK

SRK
Author: Samar Khan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN: 9789385285257

Collection of 30 essays from directors who worked closely with Shah Rukh Khan; includes hand-painted film posters.

K. L. Saigal

K. L. Saigal
Author: Pran Nevile
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2011-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9352141601

A tribute to the first Singer-Superstar of Indian Cinema Hailed as shahenshah-e-mausiqi (emperor of music) and acclaimed as the ghazal king, K.L. Saigal became a phenomenon in his own lifetime. Idolized for his distinctive style by the first generation of Bollywood playback singers, he is now also the subject of study by several scholars. With no formal training, Saigal recorded 185 songs, including the immortal Diya jalao jagmag jagmag, Rumjhum rumjhum chaal tihari, Baag laga doon sajani and Jab dil hi toot gaya. He also acted in thirty-six feature films, including Tansen, Street Singer and Shahjehan. His popularity, however, skyrocketed with Devdas in which he played the doomed lover to perfection, a portrayal which would influence every actor playing a tragic hero thereafter. This book, interspersed with archival photographs and appended with a filmography and selected songs, provides a fascinating account of one of Hindi cinema’s greatest legends.

Pyaasa

Pyaasa
Author: Abrar Alvi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Motion picture plays
ISBN: 9789380070537

Parineeta

Parineeta
Author: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9350835215

In this novel, Sharat Chandra has portrayed the external beauty as well as the internal beauty and mental feelings of the Indian woman with amazing dexterity. He has done so in such a perfect manner that no other novelist of Indian languages has been able to reach his level. lolita of 'Parineeta', like every female characters of other novels penned by Sharat Chandra, depicts live images of the problems related to the life of women, the internal clashes among them and their innate feelings Among many novels of Sharat Chandra, 'Parineeta' is a superior novel. Many successful movies have been made by taking this novel as a script base.

The Dancing Girl

The Dancing Girl
Author: Hasan Shah
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811212564

Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel".

Spot Girl

Spot Girl
Author: Komal Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9351186598

You hold on to that Star . . . Jia is living her greatest dream. She’s the manager-cum-miss-do-it-all of the country’s hottest film star, Shezad Khan! A man she’s adored since her teens. But her life takes a sudden twist when Shezad gets romantically involved with actress Ayesha. More frustrating is when she has to work with Ayesha’s attractive but infuriating manager Falak to bring the two stars together for a legendary director’s last film. On Shezad’s trip to the Cannes red carpet, Jia suddenly finds her picture-perfect existence clouded with self-doubt, heartbreak and questionable career choices. Also that Falak, ‘the man with a girl name’ and she might have a little more in common! Spot Girl is the story of an ordinary girl who ends up finding something ‘real’ in this fascinating world of ‘make belief’!