Devdas is a Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee. The character of Parvati was based on a real-life second wife of zamindar Bhuvan Mohan Chowdhury, it was said that even the writer visited the village. According to sources, the original village was called Hatipota.
The story pivots a tragic triangle linking Devdas, an archetypal lover in Viraha (separation); Paro, his forbidden childhood love; and Chandramukhi, a reformed courtesan. Devdas has been adapted on screen 20 times for film and 5 times for a single song.
The novella powerfully depicts the customs of a society that prevailed in Bengal in the early 1900s, which largely prevented a happy ending to a true and tender love story.