The musical “Devdas’ is being performed five times in Paris this weekend. Twenty dancers and actors, 500 costumes, 600 lights and 300 props on stage.

This Bollywood show is more adapted from the novel by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, published in 1917, than from the film released in France in 2003. “There has been no Bollywood in Paris since 2015, with Bharati,” calculates Ashvin Gidwani, the Indian producer of the show.