Prem Kahani (1937 film)

Prem Kahani (English: "Love Story") is a 1937 Hindi film, by Franz Osten and starring Ashok Kumar, N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others.[1]

For the 1975 film starring Rajesh Khanna, see Prem Kahani (1975 film). For the 2009 film, see Prem Kahani (2009 film).

Prem Kahani
Song book cover
Directed byFranz Osten
Produced byHimanshu Rai
Written byNiranjan Pal
StarringAshok Kumar
N.M. Joshi
Mayadevi
Vimala Devi
Madhurika Devi
Music bySaraswati Devi
CinematographyJoseph Wirsching
Edited byDattaram Pai
Production
company
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryBritish Raj
LanguageHindi

Plot

Two widowed sisters thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.

Cast
  • N.M.Joshi as Father
  • Bilqis as Mother
  • Aloka as Ratanbai, the daughter
  • M.Nazir as Chandrakanta
  • Kamta Prasad as Priest
  • Tarabai Solanki as Heera
  • Saroj Borkar as Shanti
  • Maya Devi as Maya
  • Ashok Kumar as Jagat
  • P.F.Pithawala as Bhagwandas
  • Vimala Devi as Ramla
  • Chandraprabha as Ms. Prabha
  • Manohar Ghatwai as Motilal
  • Sunita Devi as Ms. Indira
  • Mumtaz Ali as Mr. Sharma
  • Madhurika Devi as Usha
  • Ahteramuddin

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. 14 May 1937. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. "Ryder's Kumarasambhava translation at". Archive.org. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
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