Prem Kahani (1937 film) - Misplaced Pages

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

1937 Indian film

Prem Kahani
Song book cover
Directed by	Franz Osten
Written by	Niranjan Pal
Produced by	Himanshu Rai
Starring	Ashok Kumar N.M. Joshi Mayadevi Vimala Devi Madhurika Devi
Cinematography	Joseph Wirsching
Edited by	Dattaram Pai
Music by	Saraswati Devi
Production company	Bombay Talkies
Release date	1937 (1937)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Prem Kahani

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

Plot

Two widowed neighbours 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.

References

"Film related information on". Indiancine.ma. 14 May 1937. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
"Ryder's Kumarasambhava translation at". 30 June 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

External links

v t e Films directed by Franz Osten
German films	The Night of Decision (1920) Orphans of Happiness (1922) The Terror of the Sea (1924) The Tragedy of a Night of Passion (1924) A Song from Days of Youth (1925) The Seventh Son (1926) Little Inge and Her Three Fathers (1926) The Villa in Tiergarten Park (1927) Break-in (1927) The Judas of Tyrol (1933)
Hindi films	Prem Sanyas (1925) Shiraz (1928) A Throw of Dice (1929) Jawani Ki Hawa (1935) Achhut Kannya (1936) Janmabhoomi (1936) Jeevan Naiya (1936) Mamta (1936) Miya Biwi (1936) Izzat (1937) Jeevan Prabhat (1937) Prem Kahani (1937) Savitri (1937) Bhabhi (1938) Nirmala (1938) Vachan (1938) Durga (1939) Kangan (1939)

This article about a Hindi film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: