Bollywood musical "Devdas" to be screened October 17, 2014

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Still from film "Devdas" (India, 2002)

ALBANY, NY (10/02/2014)(readMedia)-- DEVDAS (India, 2002, 185 minutes, color, in Hindi with English subtitles, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali) will be shown on Friday, October 17, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series, the screening is free and open to the public.

This "Bollywood" musical extravaganza was named the best film of world cinema in 2002 by Richard Corliss of Time, and ranked eighth in that magazine's top ten films of the new millennium in May of 2012. Based on the classic Bengali novella, DEVDAS tells the story of three star-crossed lovers: an aristocratic young man, a middle-class woman who had been his beloved playmate as a child, and a beautiful courtesan with "a heart of gold."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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