![]() Devdas has enthralled readers and filmgoing audiences alike for the better part of a century. Paro comes to know of his death only the following morning. Arriving in the middle of the night, he dies unknown, untended, on her doorstep. Devdas’s tortured life ends when, dying of a liver ailment brought on by alcoholism, he journeys to Paro’s house to see her one last time. It is now his destiny to hurtle on relentlessly on the path to self-destruction. Chandramukhi falls in love with Devdas, but even when he is with her he can only think of Paro. Heartbroken, he seeks solace in alcohol and in the company of the courtesan Chandramukhi. Desperate to resolve the situation somehow, he runs to Paro who is now married and asks her to elope with him, but she refuses. Devdas returns to Calcutta, but every waking hour of his is now filled with thoughts of Paro and his unfulfilled love for her. Stunned, Paro agrees to marry an elderly widower. ![]() But Devdas is unable to stand up to parental opposition to the match and rejects the proposition. ![]() When Devdas returns to his village, now a handsome lad of nineteen, Paro asks him to marry her. It is the story of Devdas and Paro, childhood sweethearts who are torn apart when Devdas is sent away to Calcutta by his father, the local zamindar. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's tragic tale of Devdas has become synonymous with a passionate, intense love that does not find consummation. ![]()
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