Parvati looks forward to their childhood love blossoming into a happy lifelong journey in marriage. Devdas sees that Parvati is no longer the small girl he knew. Suddenly both realise that their easy comfort in each other's innocent comradeship has changed to something deeper. During vacations, he returns to his village. The two families live in a village called Taalshonapur in Bengal, and Devdas and Parvati are childhood friends.ĭevdas goes away for a couple of years to live and study in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata). Parvati (Paro) is a young woman from a middle class Bengali Brahmin family. Devdas is a young man from a wealthy Bengali Brahmin family in India in the early 1900s.
