https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=202.133.59.102Bharatpedia - User contributions [en]2026-11-02T06:04:52ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prem_Kahani_(1937_film)&diff=249576Prem Kahani (1937 film)2021-06-14T23:47:08Z<p>202.133.59.102: I have watched this movie. It is actually neighbours and not sisters. In Hinduism marriages between children of sisters is prohibited and your such wrong mention is derogatory. I have saved you guys.</p>
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<div>{{About||the 1975 film starring [[Rajesh Khanna]]|Prem Kahani (1975 film)|the 2009 film|Prem Kahani (2009 film)}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Prem Kahani<br />
| image = Prem Kahani (1937 Hindi film).png<br />
| caption = Song book cover<br />
| alt = Song book cover with title in three languages showing the key crew of the film<br />
| director = [[Franz Osten]]<br />
| producer = [[Himanshu Rai]]<br />
| writer = [[Niranjan Pal]]<br />
| starring = [[Ashok Kumar]] <br/> N.M. Joshi <br/> Mayadevi <br/> Vimala Devi <br/> Madhurika Devi<br />
| music = [[Saraswati Devi (music director)|Saraswati Devi]]<br />
| cinematography = Joseph Wirsching<br />
| editing = Dattaram Pai<br />
| studio = [[Bombay Talkies]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1937}}<br />
| runtime = 87 minutes<br />
| country = [[British Raj]]<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
}}<br />
[[File:Prem Kahani, 1937.webm|thumb|''Prem Kahani'']]<br />
'''''Prem Kahani''''' (English: "Love Story") is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1937|1937]] [[Bollywood|Hindi]] film, by [[Franz Osten]] and starring [[Ashok Kumar]], N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/CKM/info |title=Film related information on |publisher=Indiancine.ma |date=1937-05-14 |access-date=2014-06-03}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Two widowed neighbours thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
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*N.M.Joshi as Father<br />
*Bilqis as Mother<br />
*Aloka as Ratanbai, the daughter<br />
*M.Nazir as Chandrakanta<br />
*Kamta Prasad as Priest<br />
*Tarabai Solanki as Heera<br />
*Saroj Borkar as Shanti<br />
*Maya Devi as Maya<br />
*[[Ashok Kumar]] as Jagat<br />
*[[P.F. Pithawala|P.F.Pithawala]] as Bhagwandas<br />
*Vimala Devi as Ramla<br />
*Chandraprabha as Ms. Prabha<br />
*Manohar Ghatwai as Motilal<br />
*Sunita Devi as Ms. Indira<br />
*Mumtaz Ali as Mr. Sharma<br />
*Madhurika Devi as Usha<br />
*Ahteramuddin<br />
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==Production==<br />
[[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.<br />
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Khorshed Minocher-Homji aka [[Saraswati Devi (music director)|Saraswati Devi]], one of the few female composers of Hindi cinema, composed music for this film.<br />
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Writer [[Niranjan Pal|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/kalidasatranslat00kali |title=Ryder's Kumarasambhava translation at |date=2011-06-30 |access-date=2014-06-03}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Commons category|Prem Kahani (1937 film)|Prem Kahani}}<br />
* {{IMDb title|0029436|Prem Kahani}}<br />
* [https://indiancine.ma/CKM/player/00:00:00.440 Watch ''Prem Kahani'' film entirely annotated with archival material at Indiancine.ma]<br />
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{{Franz Osten}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1930s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Articles containing video clips]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1937 romantic drama films]]<br />
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