Prem Kahani (1937 film)
# Prem Kahani (1937 film)

Prem Kahani (English: "Love Story") is a 1937 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

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.

