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!
