"DEV.D"

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Also famed as the "Modern Day Devdas"

A true masala movie for the serious cine-lovers... though is completely off beat in the topics it showcases... it is a tale of lust, love, lust, obsession, lust, psychedelia and lust.

Finally Indian Cinema grows up, a country full of hypocrites.... the land where Kamasutra was scipted... and using the three letter word S*X is a taboo... can someone... please explain the 1 billion + population....

Anywaz... why 'Modern Day Devdas', Devdas Mukherjee had always been an epitome of self pity, drunkenness and failed love in Indian cinema similarly, Dev Dhillon though an absolute b**tard, who fondles every other women, but cracks up at rumors of Paro kissing someone else... DEV D is though similar to that of Devdas, but, yet so very different. He drinks... nopes he drowns... himself in vodka, breathes on air filtered by coke, calls up Paro's house at 4 in the morning, yet he sees Chanda's face when he closes his eyes...

The commonalities of Devdas and Dev D, is drawn by the self centeredness of both these characters...

What I really liked about the movie was the way in which Mr.Kashyap had portrayed all the three characters... especially that of Paro and Chanda (Lenny)... the way Mr.Kashyap builds both these characters from various shades of gray and turns them into such strong characters... is absolutely brilliant...

Abhay Deol is fantastic as Dev.

I read this somewhere that there were a total of 18 songs in this movie... and funnily I only remember one... the 'emosional atyachar' one...

My take on the movie... a definite delicay for not so regular appetite...

Rating: 7/10