Devdas (देवदास)

''Badi Ma, Dwijdas, Kumud, Padma, Dharamdas, where's everybody?''

''Look, here's Devdas' letter. Devdas is returning from London''

Really? Happy tidings!

Dwijdas! You hear? Devdas is coming! - l don't think so. Ma is lying

''You're lying, Ma. - Here's the letter''

Show me the letter

Shubhankar! My Devdas is coming! - Really?

Give your brother the good news

Badi Ma... Badi Ma... my Tempest is coming home

Thank God

''Compliments, lady! - Not in tears Dharamdas''

l want a promise. l am going... to receive Devdas. l alone.

''Yes, but wind the clocks once again After so many years! My son is back''

''Winding clocks won't make time move, nor any faster brings the son home''

l know Kumud! But look how my heart throbs

Oh when will the day give way to the night...?

Drum up the cheer! Let the music play

What joyous tempest stirs my heartstrings! Drum up the cheer

Let the music play! - Welcome the onset of Tempest

''All day l'm hollering at everyone to get ready, and no one listens?''

The house has been spruced up. - Devdas' room is ready

Dharamdas has tethered the horses. - Badi Ma decided who wears what

Happy...?

''Once you get your baby, you'll know what joy is in seeing him come home''

Kaushalya Didi (Didi :sister ) - Goodness! Here comes the actress

''ln she traipses and, Ei Kaushalya Didi...''

''sweet Shondesh'' for you'' ''

''Ei Kaushalya Didi, look Shondesh for you''

Sumitra! Lovely timing! - Sumitra-Kaki's timing!

''Always opportune. And your ''Shondesh'' is famous!''

Hear that Didi? - Let her talk. Guess who's coming?

l know! Mr Chattopadhyay...?

''Silly! You won't believe this! My Tempest, my Devdas is coming!''

''Really Didi...? - Yes, yes, really!''

Thank Goddess Durga

''My compliments, Didi! - l'm seeing my son after 10 years''

What might he look like? What might he sound like? What will he tell me?

''How am l going to survive tonight, Sumitra?''

How l wish l wouldn't blink! What if he walks in right then?

''l only remember Devdas, the boy who'd walk up to my house...''

''peep around the door to ask me... - Kaki-Ma, is Paro in?''

''There she goes, into the act''

''And when Dev stormed out, l'd send Paro to find him''

Found him always in guava orchards. - And Dharamdas would haul him in...

by his ear! Some friendship! - And when Devdas was leaving...

''going abroad for his studies, how my Paro ran after his buggy...''

as if possessed. Arre O'Deva

Arre O'Deva

''ln that scorching sun, her feet blistering on the gravelly soil...''

''yet she ran on, screaming, l'm going with Dev''

l'm going abroad too! - Are you out of your mind?

Send her abroad? My silly girl

She owed Dev three Rupees

Let me go. l got to give him his 3 Rupees

A lamp lit for a loved one draws the wayfarer home

''For 10 years, in that belief she kept that lamp alight for Dev''

''Not once she let the lamp go out! l must tell her, she'll be glad''

''She will be overjoyed. - Yes Sumitra, go''

lt's your son who's coming home and she is the happier for it

Why not? She's our neighbour. Paro and Devdas...

were childhood friends. - What's left of that childhood?

''Both are grown ups now... Kaki-Ma's ''Shondesh''?''

''What's up Kaki-Ma? - Manorama, where is Paro?''

''Where else? Must be in her room, talking to her lamp''

Not lamp! - Devdas

Oh God. - What's the matter?

The news l have for her will drive her mad with joy

What news?

''Paro, Devdas is coming''

''Really? - Yes, Devdas is coming''

They're preparing for a welcome! Kaushalya-Didi is nearly going mad

The whole house is in raptures...

''Silly, are you crying?''

Let not tears of joy douse the lamp before Dev arrives

No power on Earth can put out this lamp

Shall we put the mighty lamp to test?

At season's change...

comes...

cloudwaves

A waft...

will come...

to blow out this lamp

This longing l didn't let die

This longing l never let die

''This lamp, my love...''

''will never be extinguished, this flame of my love''

''My love, come to me my love''

Now come to me

As this lamp burns...

''l'm burning in my every pore and my heart''

Now come to me

''Come to me, my love''

Distance parted us...

there was the pain of parting

My eyes yearned...

but there you were...

''glittering, glowing...''

awash in joys...

while here...

'''''l burned...''

''while here, l burned''

''Once again, clouds thunder...''

raining in thunderous rhapsody

Tempest strikes again...

but my lamp is never doused...

''my love, my flame...''

''no matter how much the rains, tempest and thunder torment you''

''Come now, come to me, my love''

''Come, my love''

She's crazy

She's naive

''Oh yes, with a gust of wind will come the one you seek''

My love...

come to me my love

''The passion, she will never let die''

''My love, this lamp is you''

''Hurry! The buggy is here! Kaushalya, quick''

Devdas is here! - Coming

l was lighting the welcome-lamp. Tell Badi-Ma

''lf you take so much time, Devdas will give himself a welcome''

''Give himself a welcome? Today, l'm welcoming him''

Wait a minute! l get to see Devdas first. Everyone shut your eyes

For my sake. - All right?

Lady! l don't believe! Could the world change so much in ten years?

''Deva is as tall as my shoulders, my very shoulders he sat upon''

See him and you'll forget to blink! - Don't torment me! Where's my Dev?

''Got off on the way. Said, he will be back after seeing ''My Paro''

Should be here any moment

''Chhoto-Ma, you wanted to be the first to set your eyes on Devdas?''

Will it be Paro's eyes now?

''Chhoto-Ma, what to do with this?''

Paro

l think it's Devdas

Devdas...

''how have you been? Fine? Come in son, welcome''

''Bless you, son''

You look just like an Englishman! We've been so eager to see you

Kaushalya-Didi is dying to see you. - Where is Paro?

She was here a moment ago

''She said, let Devdas come and l'll do this and l'll do that''

l'll fight with him and scratch him. Now you're here and she's hiding

Ei Paro

''Can l go upstairs? - Yes son, go on''

How have you been Paro?

Won't you turn to see my face? We're meeting after so many days

''Days? For you, maybe. For me...''

''10 years, 6 months, 4 days and 6 hours''

You never missed me? - l did

Lies! Only 5 letters in 10 years? There are four seasons in a year

Couldn't you write once a season? - Makes sense. You're a big girl

Takes time?

The desire to meet the sea turns the stream into a river

Then why take time to show your face?

''Like sighting the Moon after ages, l fear l'll leave you breathless''

Not even the Moon is as vain. - But the Moon is scarred

''Till moonrise spare the Moon, to see which leaves me breathless...''

the Moon's radiance? Or your vanity?

''Paro, l hate the thought of someone else touching you''

''Look, Devdas is here! - Let him come''

Don't be cross. - l don't want to talk to him

Tell him to go away. - But Ma...

''l said, l don't want to... - Ma''

''Go, l don't want to see your face''

''Why, what's so ugly about my face...''

that neither Paro nor you want to see?

''After 10 years of waiting, the neighbour gets to welcome you?''

Go back to your Paro

Won't you open your eyes? - l won't

Won't see me either?

''Very well, l'm going away. - Where...?''

''Where are you going, Dev? - Dev, stop''

Why did you let him leave? l was just joking

l was joking too

My prodigal son returns a lawyer. But no let up on the mischief?

Babu-ji...? (Babu-ji :Father ) - He left for his chambers early...

''something urgent. - l know, l know''

Complaints every day!

Dev and Paro never went to school. Dev caught smoking

All day tramping around the village with that Paro

Not another moment for you in this house

''The day l left, he wasn't at home''

''This day l return, he still isn't here''

''You know, the British government is knighting him''

l see! - And he'll be so glad to see you

''Really? - Glad he is, at work''

''ln my home, fathers welcome sons returning home after years...''

''with arms outstretched. - Same here, child''

''Come to me, my darling''

l told you to get me a nice foreign watch

Have you brought it?

''No, but l bring fortuitous times''

Look...

over here... but l can't even make out clearly

''They use only paper? - And sometimes, not even that''

l never shook hands

What are you upto?

Give my box back to me

Give it to me

What's happening? - Nothing

Watching Devdas? How do you find him?