Devdas — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A grieving male lover.

   Usage

   • India

   Examples

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   "I don't know," he had said and sighed, Devdas style: "I don't know," Everyone wants to be a Devdas, at least for a while — or perhaps only for a while. Tragic hero.

   It reminds me very much of the Devdas character that so suffuses Indian cinema, not just in the 1935 and 1955 film versions, but as a 'Devdas effect' in Hindi melodramas, especially those of Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.

   Indians everywhere recognized that when somebody pined, longed, and raged for someone else, they were "doing a Devdas."

   The character of Kashyap's Dev, although it is built on the same model as traditional Devdases, is different and suffers for other reasons.