Devdas (2002 Hindi film)

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In the early 1900s, Kaushalya Smita Jaykar hears that her younger son, Devdas Shah Rukh Khan, is to return home after he had leftyears ago for law school in England. Kaushalya tells her neighbor Sumitra Kirron Kher, who is overjoyed. Sumitras daughter, Paro Parvati Chakraborty Aishwarya Rai and Devdas have shared a deep friendship since childhood. When Devdas went to England, Paro had lit an oil lamp to prompt his early return and never allows it to extinguish.When Devdas returns, the friendship between him and Paro becomes love. Everyone believes that Devdas and Paro will get married, but Devdas scheming sisterinlaw Kumud Ananya Khare reminds Kaushalya of Paros maternal lineage of nautch girls and nautanki performers, inappropriate for the Mukherjee family. Sumitra publicly announces her desire for Devdas and Paro to marry, and Kaushalya rejects and humiliates her in public by saying that she is from a lower class in society. Devastated, Sumitra hastily arranges Paros marriage to a man from a wealthier family than the Mukherjees Thakur Bhuvan Chaudhry Vijayendra Ghatge, a fortyyearold widowed aristocrat with three grown children. ........

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