Prem Kahani (1937)
Two widowed sisters thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.
- Date of release
- 1937-10-13
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Romance
- Director
- Franz Osten
Casting
- Ashok Kumar — Jagat
- N.M. Joshi — Father
- Bilqis — Mother
- Aloka — Ratanbai, the daughter
- M. Nazir — Chandrakanta
- Kamta Prasad — Priest
- Saroj Borkar — Shanti
- Maya Devi — Maya
- P.F. Pithawala — Bhagwandas
- Sunita Devi — Ms. Indira
- Mumtaz Ali — Mr. Sharma
Interesting facts
Prem Kahani is a 1937 Indian Hindi film, by Franz Osten and starring Ashok Kumar, N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others.
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 Kalidasa’s Kumarasambhava or The Birth of the War-God.
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