DEV D

WAS DEV D REALLY DEVDAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw Dev D,and have been confused ever since,as to how to react to it.!But am sure of one thing,that except for the Hero named,Dev,who had two woman named Paro and Chanda(Chandramukhi) in his life ,there is nothing really like the original story or the earlier movies,Devdas.

Dev D is definitely an innovative film,very cleverly twined around the backdrop of the original story of Devdas.It has used two recent scandals,the MMS Scandal,of a public school of Delhi and the famous(or rather infamous)BMW hit and run case,to present the lifestyle of the youngsters today.The depiction of the dark side of today's life of youngsters and teenagers is authentic,highlighting,the freedom,disrespect to elders,indiscipline,extravagance,drinking,smoking,drugs,teenage experimental sex,exploitation,flesh trade ,sexual perversions,the liberated woman and the works!What has been shown is probably true,but may represent the lifestyle of limited few,and does seem a bit exaggerated . In trying to do justice,the movie seems to have gone over board,and is obnoxiously intorable at places,specially the explicit unparliamentarily language replete with abuses and even the scenes and acts,to the extent of becoming repulsively truthful and realistically scary!

The story,revolves around Dev,a spoilt brat,who has a neighborhood girl friend called Paro.Dev is sent to study abroad,as a punishment for being indiscipline and disrespectful and returns as a young rich panju eligible bachelor,full of all the prevalent vices,including drugs,drinking and womanizing.Simultaneously there is,a girl called Chanda,(the name is really a misfit for her,in the movie)whose boyfriend,records some intimate La Monica moments with her, while in school and circulates the MMS.She is put under house arrest in her ancestral village home,from where she elopes to grow up and become a high class escort! Dev is stunned and shocked by Paro,after she has a real hot encounter with him in the fields,exhibiting her boldness and the Kamsutra skills,and refuses to marry her,presuming that she would be sleeping around with others too.Dev bangs into Chanda,in the dark alleys of pubs and brothels,amidst drug peddlers,pimps and sex perverts,and they fall in love!Dev buys a red BMW,from the money he gets from his dying father,and under the effect of drugs and alcohol kills few people on the footpath and runs away!Chanda extends her loving support and stands by him,when the world leaves him and convinces him to surrender to the police!

The story is good,and the screenplay very contemporary.Dialogues are strong .but crude and filthy.Direction,editing and cinematography are of a very high standard but what outshines all is the music and the songs.The background score is original and
the songs intriguingingly different,entertaining and befitting!Abhay Deol had acted very well,and so have the two girls in their debuts.

The movie can be seen once,but I wish,it was made as it is,without being related to Devdas.Somewhere,it seems that,we have belittled the sublime soft love between Devdas and Paro,and the selfless support of Chandramukhi.Even though I am not a supporter of Devdas as a lover,but am an ardent fan of the story of Devdas,and wish that the eternal triangle of love between Devdas,Paro and Chandramukhi was not belittled and humiliated by presenting it in this dirty distorted manner,just to fit today's context,

Dr Sanjay Kaps Lucknow