Category: HindiDev.D is Anurag Kashyap's take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas. The movie is adapted to portray a Devdas of 2008 apparently but the movie eventually falls to some poor music and a long drawn out conclusion.
Okay, so am going to be honest here, I've not seen any of the previous movie adaptations of this novel but like most people these days I badly wanted to see this one. The movie follows the life of Devdas who returns from London to his child-hood love Paro. Things fall apart and Paro is married off to someone else while Devdas takes the path to self-destruction to cope with her loss. He finds love in a commercial sex worker named Chandramukhi (Chanda).
The movie is a really good attempt but somewhere it seems like Kashyap's style to just indulge in something a little too much, as if he wants to kill his own plot. The songs were praised a lot but aside from a few numbers I found most of them pretty stupid.
Recommendation level: 3/5. The execution is pretty good, also we get to see some good acting from a new cast. Then there's always Emosonal Atyachar... Pick up the DVD version since it's cheap and available anywhere!
4.5/5, at least, surely?
ReplyDeleteI didn't include this part in the review, although I should have but I think the movie moves towards a climax which never comes :/
ReplyDeleteAlso the music was irritating after a while ^^
I quite liked the music. Yes the conclusion ruined the whole thing. I wonder when director will know how to end it well!
ReplyDeleteThe movie was a look at a self-seeking, self-destructive wreck. THe audience deserved a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteBut it isn't a happy ending in the classical sense, since the protagonist was probably heading to get a pandu's danda up his butt.
With all the hype around the movie, I still have to watch this one :-(
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