title: Prem Kahani (1937 film)
text: # 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.
  
  