DEV D is a modern attempt on Devdas the novel by Sarat Chandra. Though Devdas has been adapted on films many times and by some illustrious filmmakers like P.C.Barua, Bimal Roy and Sanjay Leela Bhansali, DEV D will still appear as fresh and riveting a tale of lost love and self-destruction.
Classically Devdas has been hailed as the ultimate lover who drowns himself when he looses his love and leads himself to self-destruction. DEV D on the other hand unabashedly proclaims Dev as the hypocrite who drowns in self pity and as a man who could not stand up for himself.
DEV D breaks all the typecasts of the original novel including it's principal characters. DEV D in essence is the tale of a man who goes into self destruction but the circumstances and the characters he meets are the people we meet and know and are of this generation.
The Plot / Dev D Story
Dev (Abhay Deol) is the son of a zamindar. Dev and Paro (Mahi Gill) are childhood sweethearts. Differences in their status and caste prevent their marriage. Dev is sent to Delhi while Paro is married off to a rich but aged widower. In Calcutta Devdas meets the prostitute Chanda (Kalki) but remorse drives him to excesses.
Anurag Kashyap did not want to do another remake of any the 9 previous films versions titled Devdas. His version was created as a modern take on the 1917 original classic novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Anurag Kashyap decided he wanted to make his own version of Devdas to reflect the original novel but through 2008 mores, with the lead character of Devdas as a debauching, hypocritcal sensualist, who is self destructive without knowing he is destroying himself.
Unlike prior endeavours by filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, DEV D is set in modern world where plastic money like ATM debit and Credit cards play more important role than hard cash, there is advance mode of communication like mobile, internet chatting instead of traditional means like telegrams. Globalization has expanded the horizon of technological availability.
DEV D has been shot in the winters of Punjab and Delhi. The backdrop to this saga oscillates between the rustic and colorful Punjab to the Foggy and Dingy lanes of Pahadganj, connaought place and Old Delhi.
Cast of Dev D
* Abhay Deol as Devdas
* Kalki as Chandramukhi
* Mahi Gill as Paro
* Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Chunilal
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