Devakanya is a 1943 Indian Tamil language Hindu mythological film directed by R.

The king arranges a young man who is the son of a palace courtier, to teach music to her.

One day an angel from heaven descends to earth and offers a magical fruit to the young man.

The abandoned princess goes in search of her husband and joins a group of street gymnasts.

The cinematographer T. Marconi, being a man from Italy, was detained by the British colonial government during the second world war as an undesirable alien for merely being an Italian citizen!

C. Honnappa Bhagavathar, U. R. Jeevarathnam, T. R. Ramachandran, T. S. Jaya, V. N. Janaki, and M. S. Murugesan are singers.