The true reason for the success of Devdas as fiction is less in the melodramatic emotions of love and In the hands of Chattopadhyay the grandiosity of the love-triangle becomes an achingly beautiful piece of minimalist fiction. On turning the last page of Devdas, a short novella that I could hardly bear to put down, whilst one is forced to confront feelings of sadness and loss at the tragedy that has just unfolded one is further provoked, not to weep, but to try and understand and explain them. In the hands of Chattopadhyay the grandiosity of the love-triangle becomes an achingly beautiful piece of minimalist fiction.
But I would definitely like to give a standing ovation to Sarat Chandra who wrote such a beautiful story of complex characters - searching for something which they can never get. But one should read it & design their own. who truly didn't deserve it.Īnyways these characters now have their interpretations in my mind too. They just felt better by loving & worshipping Dev. One married to an old man with no love in her life and the other a nauch girl with no love and a fake life. Probably their current state is so bad that loving the looser just makes them feel better. He loved them but ill-treated them.įor me it proves one thing that its quiet possible that women sometimes fall for loosers, trying to protect them & take care of them. They went for the guy who treats them badly. He got angry with the world & probably himself. But once his parents denied him Paro, he denied Paro, then Paro denied him apology & decided not to come back. Devdas had everything easy in life, he always got what he wanted. Infact he literally agrees that he degraded once luck did not favor. Devdas unlike in movies has not been justified by the author. But they were so different, so real than the magnanimous images on screen.
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I was a little curious as to how the characters really are and whether the interpretations on TV or movies is actually real. love turned sour because of egos, social barriers, differences.
the characters which have been immortalised through spoofs, tragedies, bollywood. Infact he liter Devdas, Paro, Chandramukhi. This new translation brings the classic tale of star-crossed lovers alive for a new generation of readers.moreĭevdas, Paro, Chandramukhi. 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. When Devdas returns to his village, now a handsome lad of nineteen, Paro asks him to marr Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's tragic tale of Devdas has become synonymous with a passionate, intense love that does not find consummation. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's tragic tale of Devdas has become synonymous with a passionate, intense love that does not find consummation.