The Extended Canon
Devdas
देवदास · 1955
Bimal Roy's austere Devdas, where the self-destruction is quiet, unglamorous and entirely convincing.
- Director
- Bimal Roy
- Year
- 1955
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Dilip Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Vyjayanthimala
Why it's in the canon
Dilip Kumar's method restraint set the standard every Indian actor since has measured against.
Bimal Roy's austere Devdas, where the self-destruction is quiet, unglamorous and entirely convincing.
Devdas sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Bimal Roy — also responsible for Do Bigha Zamin, Bandini, Madhumati.
- Released in 1955, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
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