Tag Archives: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Happy Birthday Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay! You would be 140 If You Weren’t Dead!

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It’s Sarat’s birthday!  Which is as good an excuse as any to put up a post with some of the pretty pretty songs from the movies based on his novels. (if you really want to party hearty, check out my 4 separate Devdas posts here, here, here, and here)

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An Orgy of Devdases (Devdasi?): Dev D as the Least and Most Faithful Adaptation

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This weekend, over the course of 30 hours, I went from having seen no Devdases to having seen all 4 important Devdasi, and read the novel.  Oh, and I also watched Dishoom.  And went grocery shopping.  I didn’t sleep much, but what’s more important? Sleep or seeing every famous version of Devdas within the same 24 hour period so that I never have to think about them again?

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