Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s ‘Devdas’ completes 20 years, see the unseen posters

Indian filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Devdas’, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit, completes 20 years today (July 12). In the film, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Madhuri Dixit Nene played immortalized the roles of Devdas, Paro, and Chandramukhi. On the occasion of 20 years of Devdas, the official social media pages of Bhansali Productions shared a series of unseen character posts of SRK, Aishwarya, and Madhuri.

The poster gives out an old-world charm, which was the theme of ‘Devdas’.

Sharing the poster, Bhansali Productions’ official Twitter handle wrote, “Devdas is mystical. Devdas is melancholic yet poetic. Devdas is a character and a film so special that it sparks love, longing & romance within us even today… Devdas, 20 years later, still stands for all this and a lot more! Here’s celebrating #20YearsOfDevdas.”

The story of ‘Devdas’ is based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1917 novel of the same name. The plot revolves around Devdas Mukherjee (Shah Rukh), a wealthy law graduate who returns from London to marry his childhood friend Parvati, aka Paro (Aishwarya). But his spiral into drunkenness and subsequent emotional degeneration prompts him to seek sanctuary with the kind-hearted courtesan Chandramukhi (Madhuri) after his own family rejects their marriage.