Prem Kahani (1937 film)

Prem Kahani

Song book cover with title in three languages showing the key crew of the film

Song book cover
Directed by Franz Osten
Produced by Himanshu Rai
Written by Niranjan Pal
Starring Ashok Kumar
N.M. Joshi
Mayadevi
Vimala Devi
Madhurika Devi
Music by Saraswati Devi
Cinematography Joseph Wirsching
Edited by Dattaram Pai
Production
company
Running time
 87.20 minutes
Country British Raj
Language Hindi

Prem Kahani is a 1937 Hindi film, directed by Franz Osten and starring Ashok Kumar, N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others.[1]

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. 1937-05-14. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  2. ↑ "Ryder's Kumarasambhava translation at". Archive.org. 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2014-06-03.

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