Film, TV, and Theatrical Adaptations
The novella has been made into a film in many Indian languages, including Bengali, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese and Malayalam.
Notable film versions of the novella include:
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devdas | Paro | Chandramukhi | |||||
| 1927 | Devdas (1927 film) | Naresh Mitra | Phani Sarma | Tarakbala | Niharbala/Miss Parul | ||
| 1935 | Devdas (1935 film) | Bengali | P.C. Barua | P.C. Barua | Jamuna | Chandrabati Devi | |
| 1936 | Devdas (1936 film) | Hindi | P.C. Barua | K.L. Saigal | Jamuna | Rajkumari | |
| 1937 | Devdas (1937 film) | Assamese | P.C. Barua | Phani Sarma | Zubeida | Mohini | |
| 1953 | Devdas (1953 film) | Tamil and Telugu | Vedantam Raghavaiah | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Savitri | Lalitha | also known as "Devadasu" |
| 1955 | Devdas (1955 film) | Hindi | Bimal Roy | Dilip Kumar | Suchitra Sen | Vyjayanthimala | |
| 1965 | Devdas (1965 film) | Urdu | Khawaja Sarfaraz | Habib Taalish | Shamim Ara | Nayyar Sultana | Pakistani film |
| 1974 | Devadasu (1974 film) | Telugu | Vijaya Nirmala | Ghattamaneni Krishna | Vijaya Nirmala | Jayanthi | |
| 1979 | Devdas (1979 film) | Bengali | Dilip Roy | Soumitra Chatterjee | Sumitra Mukherjee | Supriya Choudhury | also known as "Debdas" |
| 1982 | Devdas (1982 film) | Bengali | Chashi Nazrul Islam | Bulbul Ahmed | Kabori Sarwar | Anwara | Bangladeshi film |
| 1989 | Devadas | Malayalam | CrossBelt Mani | Venu Nagavally | Parvathy | Ramya Krishna | |
| 2002 | Devdas (2002 Bengali film) | Bengali | Shakti Samanta | Prasenjit Chatterjee | Arpita Pal | Indrani Halder | |
| 2002 | Devdas (2002 film) | Hindi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Shahrukh Khan | Aishwarya Rai | Madhuri Dixit | |
| 2009 | Dev.D | Hindi | Anurag Kashyap | Abhay Deol | Mahi Gill | Kalki Koechlin | A modern day take on Devdas |
| 2010 | Devdas (2010 film) | Iqbal Kasmiri | Nadeem Shah | Zara Shaikh | Meera | Pakistani film | |
| 2012 | Devdas (2012 film) | Bengali | Chashi Nazrul Islam | Shakib Khan | Apu Biswash | Moushumi | Bangladeshi film |
- In the film Haath Ki Safai, a song in the movie is about the play Devdas with Randhir Kapoor as Devdas and Hema Malini as Chandramukhi.
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