Prem Kahani
Song book cover
Directed by	Franz Osten
Written by	Niranjan Pal
Produced by	Himanshu Rai
Starring	Ashok Kumar N.M. Joshi Mayadevi Vimala Devi Madhurika Devi
Cinematography	Joseph Wirsching
Edited by	Dattaram Pai
Music by	Saraswati Devi
Production company	Bombay Talkies
Release date	1937 (1937)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	British Raj
Language	Hindi

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.^[1]

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.^[2]