In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
Cinematography
Every frame is a painting — literally, they hand-painted backgrounds.
Production
Sets so extravagant they reportedly bankrupted the production twice.
Acting
Madhuri Dixit steals the film with grace Shah Rukh cannot match.
Director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Shah Rukh Khan
Devdas Mukherjee
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty
Madhuri Dixit
Chandramukhi
Jackie Shroff
Chunnilal
Smita Jaykar
Kaushalya Mukherjee
Manoj Joshi
Dwijdas Mukherjee
Ananya Khare
Kumud Mukherjee
Milind Gunaji
Kalibabu
Dina Pathak
Bhuvan's Mother
Kirron Kher
Sumitra Chakraborty
Tiku Talsania
Dharamdas
Jaya Bhattacharya
Manorama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The elaborate train set cost more than entire Bollywood films of that era. They built it twice because a cyclone destroyed the first one.
This is the third Hindi adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 novel — Bollywood keeps returning to this story because it lets them glamorize suffering while critiquing class.
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