Devdas (2013 film)

Devdas is an Bengali film based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel Devdas. This is the second Bangladeshi and fifth Bengali version of the story. It is also the first colour film version of the story in Bangladesh. The film is directed by Chashi Nazrul Islam and stars Shakib Khan as Devdas, alongside Moushumi and Apu Biswas in the leading roles. The film released onFebruary 2013 to highly positive response from critics, and had a good opening at the box office and was declared a big success at the box office.

The movie was expected to be released in 2011, but due to Film Censor Board problems, it failed to do so. In December 2012, it got clearance from Bangladesh Film Censor Board after cutting some scenes about which the board showed concern considering public sentiment. Scenes portraying Chunilal character wearing coatee, usually worn on Punjabi or kurta in the Indian subcontinent, looked like a Mujib coat a kind of black waist coat used by the countrys founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to some members of the censor board and asked to cut those.

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