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Prem Kahani (1937 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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.
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 Kalidasas Kumarasambhava or The Birth of the War-God.
References
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