Devdas

Devdas the son of a zamindar and Parvati his neighbours daughter are childhood sweethearts However class and caste differences prevent their marriage Devdas is sent off to Calcutta while Paro is married off to an aged rich widower In Calcutta as remorse drives him to alcohol Devdas meets Chandramukhi a prostitute All Indian prints of this Bengali version were destroyed in a fire that ravaged New Theatres studios Today only one copy of the film survives which belongs to the Bangladesh Film Archives Of that copy almost forty percent is destroyed