Devdas,”The title of a novella by Bengali author Sharatchandra Chatterjee, and the name of the novel’s central character. The novel has been made into a series of films, both in Hindi and Bengali, and has established itself as an all-time favorite plot in the Bollywood canon. The central story revolves around a love triangle: Devdas, British-educated, immatre and alcoholic, loves Paro, his childhood companion now married to someone else
and is loved in turn by the courtesan Chandramukhi”