Devdas

Devdas, from a wealthy Brahmin family, and Paro, whose family has less status and belongs to a merchant caste, grow from childhood friends into lovers. Devdas's father opposes the match because of the difference in wealth and caste. When Devdas realises he cannot live without Paro, he goes to find her, but she has already been married off to an older man with children.

Devdas sinks into drink. He meets the courtesan Chandramukhi, who falls in love with him and cares for him. In his drunken dreams the two women replace each other, so that it is never clear whether he lets go of Paro and finds peace with Chandramukhi. At the end he returns to meet Paro, and dies at her doorstep before he can see her.

Pramathesh Barua wrote and directed. After making the story first in Bengali and then in Hindi, he released this Assamese version as the third. Phani Sarma plays Devdas, Mohini plays Chandramukhi and Zubeida plays Paro. The songs were sung in playback by Shamshad Begum and Bhupen Hazarika.

Its place in history is as one of the earliest Assamese-language films after Joymoti (1935) and as a link between Assamese cinema and the wider Indian cinema of the 1930s.