The art of making pathetic movies is present in almost every director in the b-town. But what differentiates Anurag Kashyap (Director of Dev D) from others is unique gift which he has of torturing his audiences with his movies. After making a horrible “NO Smoking” Kashyap returns with the formula of Emotional Athyachaar in his new venture “DEV D”.
The movie is a contemporary adaptation of the Sharat Chandra novel “Devdas”. The movie begins with the main protagonist Dev (Abhay Deol) who ha been sent to London for studies asking his childhood love Paro (Mahi Gill)to send him a nude pic of the latter which the latter eventually
ends up sending. Aroused by the pic Dev returns to Punjab his native.
Dev meets Paro and both endeavor to make love (have s**) but eventually fail every time. Sunil( donno his real name)a local spreads rumours about Paro to Dev telling that she is one of the biggest whores of the village and has had physical relations with many men including him. Dev gets instigates by this refuses to make love with Paro after the latter makes the whole arrangement of the program in the fields. Dev leaves Paro and she gets married to Bhuvan.
The movie then shifts focus to Lene (Kalki Koechlin) the daughter of the Canadian Ambassador in India who gets involved in an MMS scandal and thus ending up as a call girl in Delhi. Dev shifts to Delhi and transforms himself into a big time alcoholic. He gets confronted with a pimp Chunni (really funny) who has a pink car (the only man to have so). Chunni takes Dev to Chanda but he hates her in their first meeting but Chanda on the contrary falls in love with Dev in their first meeting. Dev calls Paro to his lodge in Delhi where he expresses his love to her but the latter asks him to forget her and in the course ends up insulting him.
Frustrated Dev goes back to Chanda and then starts a torturous saga of melodrama filled with loud music which makes you suffocate to death. It is said that Indians lack the element of Unconventional cinema. But if this is unconventional I prefer the usual naach-gaana anyday.
The only good moment in the movie is the superhit shaadi track “Emotional Athyachaar” by Patna Ke Presleys. But no one on earth is such a big fool to pay the theatre ticket to just catch a song which is repeatedly played on all TV channels.Abhay Deol shines in his role as Dev. But the movie is too boring for people to recognize it. Mahi Gill is first rate as Paro. But the real disappointment comes from Kalki who does not live upto the expectation of the role. A real miscast as Chanda
.
While watching Dev D you just feel that you are stuck in middle of a creepy maze which only scares you and you tend to save your life by rushing out of the theatre. After undergoing the horrible Athyachaar for three hours I warn you guys “just stay out of it”.
On whole DEV D is a bizarre, horrifying, terrible (falling short of adjectives) experience which turns out to be worst than a nightmare. Just one request to Anurag Kashyap “Stop torturing the audiences”.
Rating: ½* (a generous half star)
The movie is a contemporary adaptation of the Sharat Chandra novel “Devdas”. The movie begins with the main protagonist Dev (Abhay Deol) who ha been sent to London for studies asking his childhood love Paro (Mahi Gill)to send him a nude pic of the latter which the latter eventually
ends up sending. Aroused by the pic Dev returns to Punjab his native.
Dev meets Paro and both endeavor to make love (have s**) but eventually fail every time. Sunil( donno his real name)a local spreads rumours about Paro to Dev telling that she is one of the biggest whores of the village and has had physical relations with many men including him. Dev gets instigates by this refuses to make love with Paro after the latter makes the whole arrangement of the program in the fields. Dev leaves Paro and she gets married to Bhuvan.
The movie then shifts focus to Lene (Kalki Koechlin) the daughter of the Canadian Ambassador in India who gets involved in an MMS scandal and thus ending up as a call girl in Delhi. Dev shifts to Delhi and transforms himself into a big time alcoholic. He gets confronted with a pimp Chunni (really funny) who has a pink car (the only man to have so). Chunni takes Dev to Chanda but he hates her in their first meeting but Chanda on the contrary falls in love with Dev in their first meeting. Dev calls Paro to his lodge in Delhi where he expresses his love to her but the latter asks him to forget her and in the course ends up insulting him.
Frustrated Dev goes back to Chanda and then starts a torturous saga of melodrama filled with loud music which makes you suffocate to death. It is said that Indians lack the element of Unconventional cinema. But if this is unconventional I prefer the usual naach-gaana anyday.
The only good moment in the movie is the superhit shaadi track “Emotional Athyachaar” by Patna Ke Presleys. But no one on earth is such a big fool to pay the theatre ticket to just catch a song which is repeatedly played on all TV channels.Abhay Deol shines in his role as Dev. But the movie is too boring for people to recognize it. Mahi Gill is first rate as Paro. But the real disappointment comes from Kalki who does not live upto the expectation of the role. A real miscast as Chanda
.
While watching Dev D you just feel that you are stuck in middle of a creepy maze which only scares you and you tend to save your life by rushing out of the theatre. After undergoing the horrible Athyachaar for three hours I warn you guys “just stay out of it”.
On whole DEV D is a bizarre, horrifying, terrible (falling short of adjectives) experience which turns out to be worst than a nightmare. Just one request to Anurag Kashyap “Stop torturing the audiences”.
Rating: ½* (a generous half star)
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