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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Film record Wikipedia — Devdas (1955) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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