Devdas is a Bengali romantic novel written by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee in 1917. It was originally written in Bengali, then it got translated many times. Devdas has been filmed numerous times, including in 1955 directed by Bimal Roy and starring Dilip Kumar and Suchitra Sen, and later in 2002 directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Sharukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai.