IT;s NOT MY VIEW ASK Mr. HERMIT HE WILL KNOW ALL REVIWERS AND HE CAN TELL WHOSE TAKE IT IS
Kashyap’s real surprise lies in the way he makes the story work, about how he avoids cinematic pitfalls and makes perhaps the most honest version of the character. In Dev D, Abhay Deol isn’t charming like Dilip Kumar or melodramatically mimic like Shah Rukh Khan, but he is the character as the scumbag.
Ushering color into these mono chromatic has proved to be disastrous so far, but Kashyap makes in with a bold new version that has only one aim, that to make your jaw drop.Cinematographer by his side, there was never any doubt that a film about a drugged up Dev would look doper.
He isn’t aiming at an emotional connect with the hero, but instead trying to set against you from him entirely. Gulping down that fact(Thums Up or Coke) helps you kick back and revel in this entirely unconventional film.
On seeing raunchy JPEGs of Paro onhis computer, Dev breaks into a grin and Kashyap makes sneakily languages. Evil and violent are both muted and better not so predictably in the film, and a dialogue-switch shows a director confident of his script. Kashyap’s used his songs is wonderfully appropriate, especially the rock version of Emotional Atyachaar.
Mahie, on the other hand, is absolutely super. As Paro, a character to connect with and admire, She is comfortable posing topless for a man whom she wishes to marry; get on top of him to sexually satisfy him; wash his clothes unabashedly post her own marriage and love in a sensible mature manner despite retaining a child-like innocence.
Kalki Koechlinis acts especially well. Usage of Hindi curse words by her gives it a hard-feel emphasizing upon her life’s terrible experiences.
Paro goes from eagerly laying mattresses in fields to giving Dev the cruelest of verbal spankings. Utterly puzzled Dev, a broken man helplessly in love with a married woman, and Deol plays this reasonably well. Reasonably, wesay, because the man truly does not have much to do. Abhay takes on an admittedly brave role and does it adequately, but save for a couple of scenesparticularly priceless moment with a bus ticket - all he has is substance abuse, chewing gum and, well, gham.
Greatness in terms of character-building, however, lies in the refreshingly creepy pimp, played byDibyendu Bhattacharya, a man who hands Dev his drugs and literally carries him to the bed.
Chunni, they call him, and the character is the coolest similarity the film draws alongside the original .Its always great to see a film where no detail is an accident, where the director gets to execute his vision exactly as he wants and this seems pretty wretched close. Music is great and background score also just check when dev is in depression the track with 3 fellows dancing and when he is high than again the same 3 fellows dancing but background music makes a different.
Its real, and it conveys the tension or ecstasy very well and in right quantity. See the execution in Dev D. combined with head spinning camera movements sometimes and sometimes with gray visuals, the music here is a character in itself.
Watch out for the background prop. Thehuge GRAND hotel billboard and the way it is filmed(go find the scene yourself). Watch the Shahrukh khan posters. See the visuals. They aren’t shotin Switzerland but are plain awesome and not at all allow to slip away from the story .Although Kashyap took somereal life incidents but they are jelled well .
The editing, lighting and color areplain amazing and Kashyap has done a fabulous job.The movie may ormay not please you but that isn’t what DEV D sets out to do from the start. Theway in which Kashyap has taken famous subject and worked his way around is what needs to be applauded.The song attyachar is perfect blow on those who needs 1000 extras for dancing .Some people like many camps in Indian film industry who would stick to glamour, big sets, useless music and some choose the dark path which is not explored, Kashyap always takes the other path the dark one. Eagerly waiting for his next gulal. I loved the ending and start. watch out until screen goes blank.
Movie is not at all for people who can’t understand cinema beyond usual masala, AND STRICTLY ONLY FOR ADULTS.