Devdas’s pain, agony and alcohol is clichéd!!! Devadas indulging in sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll is the last thing you’d expect but Anurag Kashyap fantasized it and stimulated it with style, substance and attitude! To start with, the perfect word to describe the film is ‘avant-garde ’. It is utterly unconventional! Call it daring or radical!
It defies conventional love and delicate romance. Can you imagine a conventional hero asking his childhood sweetheart over a long distance telephone call, “Paro, do you touch yourself?” Never has the childhood sweetheart photographed herself nude and e-mailed it to her love in London. Never has Dev warned Paro “Kaat loonga,” and neither has Paro retorted “Noch loongi.” Their relationship is not hopelessly emotional but kinkily beautiful.
Though Devdas is a static tale, Kashyap has rendered it in breathtaking manner and made it irresistibly dynamic. Abhay gives a dazzling performance! He is an unconventional hero and so is the movie. Perfect choice for the role I feel. He is a complete natural in playing the arrogant and spoilt Punjabi lad. The two girls perform brilliantly, look charming and have played their parts with confidence in their first film. Music is phenomenal! ‘Emotional atyachar’, ‘nayan tarse’ and ‘pardesi’ are incredible numbers!!! Every song is unique in its own way and together they make the movie a hell of a ride!! The camerawork is top notch, specially the ‘pardesi’ song!
Nothing is perfect and not even this film. At some point, post interval, the movie seems a li’l dragged. The over two and a half hour running time feels far too long than it actually should have been. The thing between Dev and Paro can easily be termed as infatuation and not love. So, you do not connect with Dev emotionally. You don’t feel bad for him. So, those expecting touching romantic moments, should stay away.
Overall, Dev D is a fantabulous experience! It is a cult film and might not appeal to the masses. It is like ‘Ale’ or ‘Old monk rum’. You either can’t stand it or you love it completely! As far as I am concerned, I am still in Trans and don’t even wanna get out of it!!!
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so true true true.
ReplyDelete“Let me get it straight ,DEV D is no NO SMOKING,it doesn’t make u think about the abstract meaning of what it shows,it is on your face when it tells you that we as men are mortals and sluts in form or the other.”
for a change, here is some cinema about some mortal characters who are flawed and instinctive just like humans naturally are. REEL for REAL. I am a fan :)
Yaar problem ho rahi hai comment likhne mein..kyunki BRILLIANT thee in totality...i say.
ReplyDeleteDev D is one of the most "in-your-face daring" movie according to our cultural standards which is what makes it so refreshingly appealing.Its direct approach to reduce the hero to a mortal given to temptations(of all kinds)instead of being infallible reminds me of Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe however the sudden realisation which redeems Dev from utter self destruction at the end was a bit too abrupt.
ReplyDeleteI would whole heartedly agree with you on your analysis :)