REVIEW: Abhay Deol's Dev D
Director Anurag Kashyap's last outing was called No Smoking, a film that was butchered by the critics and the audiences alike. It was written off as being nothing more than an ego trip.
In his latest film Dev D, Anurag seems to have gone almost to the other extreme playing at times far too much to the gallery.
This isn't so much of a complaint as much as just a passive observation because there is little you can tell a guy whose last film fared so poorly at the box office.
So Anurag's Dev D is a take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic novel Devdas. It is set in modern-day Chandigarh/Delhi and for large part follows the traditional plot.
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The story
Dev Singh Dhillon (Abhay Deol) is the son of a millionaire who has been packed off to London for being a nuisance in his father's life. While there, he is in touch with his childhood sweetheart Paro, daughter of his father's manager.
How deep the relationship may have been is never exactly known. However it is made evident that Dev is someone who goes for the skin. So when he receives a nude picture of Paro, he drops everything and returns to Chandigarh.
Paro (Mahi Gill) is a fiery and intelligent girl – she has topped all the examinations we are told. So she doesn't mind going up to a local bloke and asking him the keys to his room 'because my Dev is in town'.
On not getting the room, she carries a huge mattress to the middle of a sugarcane field and pinning her man onto it.
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It's probably this sexual liberation that takes Dev by some amount of surprise and fuelled by small talk of her escapades in bed by a jealous suitor he lets go of her.
Dev is no saint either. He's cheated on her already but is quite an egotist to accept his mistake.
Fuelled by Dev's ego and a series of miscommunication, he and Paro grow apart till finally she accepts a marriage proposal from a much older man with two kids.
While she seems to have come to terms with her new life, Dev refuses to let go and hits the bottle and takes to every single form of drug overdose.
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Dev d r very romantic move
Hey.. I agree with abhi abt the end of the movie.. But wot i
like abt the end is that today's youth do take impulsive
decisions. And it hits u like a bullet.. The end... Yeah
just like crazy things make u go the wrong way.. Crazy
things make u come along str8.. Well looks like a review
written by a bored person..
abt the movie.. Go for it.. 5/5!!.. No complains abt the
pace and all.. After all this is not an oceans 14.. Hehe..
I just loved the movie. Worth watching..
What to comment people!!!!
i have not seen a movie like this before, simply mind
blowing.
awsome....
i loved it.
What to comment people!!!!
i have not seen a movie like this before, simply mind
blowing.
awsome....
i loved it.
This movie
rocksssss!!!...Awesome...Awesome.........Awesome....Atleast
somebody dared to do something different and uber
cool....Music rocks......A must watch.....Bt i know some
conservatives and narrow minded people will try to prove it
a dud......Supercool movie!!! Go for it
Even today on fm radio mirchi gave comments this movie that
if you tear off your all cloths and spoil your kids dont
watch this movie as it is full of alchol and full of dirty
abuses and for one moment i also decided not to watch but
after veiwing all comments i have also felt we never give
chance to new young boys rather always popping old srk or
salu old great gals
No matter what, dev d will rock you!
Greatest movie & i would say worth watching
Watched the movie yesterday, even when few of my friends
said i will be waisting my money. I nstead really loved
watching this movie, even though i also did not get what
director was trying to explain. But if you looks at
characters acting abilities, they are worh watching.
Character played by paro, mahie gill, was awesome, looks she
has great acting talent..Overall great movie and great
direction. Abhay you always rock!!