Prem Kahani (1937 film)

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Prem Kahani
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Directed by Franz Osten
Written by Niranjan Pal
Produced by Himanshu Rai
Starring Ashok Kumar
N.M. Joshi
Mayadevi
Vimala Devi
Madhurika Devi
CinematographyJoseph Wirsching
Edited byDattaram Pai
Music by Saraswati Devi
Production
company
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Prem Kahani

Prem Kahani (English: "Love Story") is a 1937 Indian Hindi film, by Franz Osten and starring Ashok Kumar, N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others. [1]

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Plot

Two widowed neighbours thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.

Cast

Production

Bombay Talkies produced two films in 1937, Jeevan Prabhat and Prem Kahani. This is also Bombay Talkies' eighth film since the studio was founded in 1934.

Khorshed Minocher-Homji aka Saraswati Devi, one of the few female composers of Hindi cinema, composed music for this film.

Writer Niranjan Pal's original title for the English-language story and screenplay was Touchstone or Marriage Market, indicating a shorthand version of the film's theme. The verse that Pal uses as a mood reference for one of the songs in the film is from Arthur Ryder's 1912 translation of Kalidasa’s Kumarasambhava or The Birth of the War-God. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Film related information on". Indiancine.ma. 14 May 1937. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ryder's Kumarasambhava translation at". 30 June 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2014.


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