Prem Kahani (1937 film)


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.

Plot

Two widowed neighbours thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.

Cast

  • N. M.Joshi as Father
  • Bilqis as Mother
  • Aloka as Ratanbai, the daughter
  • M.Nazir as Chandrakanta
  • Kamta Prasad as Priest
  • Tarabai Solanki as Heera
  • Saroj Borkar as Shanti
  • Maya Devi as Maya
  • Ashok Kumar as Jagat
  • P.F.Pithawala as Bhagwandas
  • Vimala Devi as Ramla
  • Chandraprabha as Ms. Prabha
  • Manohar Ghatwai as Motilal
  • Sunita Devi as Ms. Indira
  • Mumtaz Ali as Mr. Sharma
  • Madhurika Devi as Usha
  • Ahteramuddin

    Production

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.