Devdas

English Etymology Borrowed from en hi देवदास or en bn দেবদাস, the name of the male lead in the 1917 Bengali-language story Devdas, readapted several times since. Noun en India A grieving male lover. en 1980 Sāhitya Akademi Indian Literature, volume 23 539 "I don't know," he had said and sighed, Devdas style: "I don't know," Everyone wants to be a Devdas, at least for a while — or perhaps only for a while. Tragic hero. en 1996 Bruce Bennett Crossing Cultures: Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific It reminds me very much of the Devdas character that so suffuses Indian cinema, not just in the 1935 and 1955 film versions, but as a 'Devdas effect' in Hindi melodramas, especially those of Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt. en 2007 Anupama Chopra King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema Indians everywhere recognized that when somebody pined, longed, and raged for someone else, they were "doing a Devdas." en 2017 Cornelius Crowley Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema 198 The character of Kashyap's Dev, although it is built on the same model as traditional Devdases, is different and suffers for other reasons. Anagrams en addesv Veddas en Film India Literature People Bollywood en Fictional characters