Devdas
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Actor: Shahrukh KhanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hindi (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Yash Raj Films
DVD Reviews of Devdas
DVD Review: Rs.50 Crores and a prodigal director
Summary: 2 Stars
Bollywood critiques had us believe that the lack of a strong story and script is the reason for the general state of decrepitude Hindi Cinema has reduced to with those hackneyed stories, harebrained plots, and formulaic settings involving four songs and a climax fight where an under-aged hero with 18" biceps fights an overweight industrialist and his politician/police cronies in a dim industrial warehouse with plastic automatic toys and petrol bombs, and comes out unhurt from the burning inferno to sweep up the industrialist's lissome daughter, sweet sixteen going on thirty six, and drive out in an open jeep into the setting sun.
Sanjay Leela Bansali, with his "Devdas" based on the critically acclaimed novel by Sharath Chandra Chattopadhyaya proves that you can still make hopeless movies when you have a time-tested story to work upon. Don't me wrong, as I am not commenting on the originality (more precisely, the lack of it) of the movie. After-all when two movies based on the same novel pre-dates your work, one doesn't get unduly worked up about creative niceties such as originality.
Presently, we have Shah Rukh Khan, dressed as Devdas Mukherjee throughout the movie, returning from England where he had spent a lion share of his gloomy childhood in deference to his strict disciplinarian father's ambitions of making a Babu out of him. Unknown to his rich landowning family the seemingly obedient Dev had, before he left for the distant shores of England, pledged his undying love to Paro, the daughter of one of the Mukherjee families numerous tenants. And to his pleasant surprise, in the intervening years of their long separation his inamorata had blossomed into a strikingly beautiful lady and at the time of their reunion, bore an uncanny resemblance to Aiswarya Rai in Sanjay Leela Bansali's previous movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Over the next few months (or years ? Can't say) Devdas' and Paro's relationship suffers the tribulations of all commonplace Bollywood romances; deep sighs, gossipy relatives, indignant father, supportive grandmother, emotional outbursts by all and sundry and lo, Paro is wedded off to an aristocrat widower. Grief struck Dev makes off to the city where he runs into Chunnilal (Jackie Shroff), who irritates him endlessly with hammimg scenes, but being a man of the world also knows a thing or two about taking care of despondent souls such as Dev's and quickly introduces him to the twin pleasures of wine and women. Can't blame Dev for what ensues, a bewitchingly attractive dancing belle "Chandramukhi" falls for his innocent charms and Dev is now caught between his "still alive and kicking" feelings for Paro on one hand and the rich sensual pleasures Chandramukhi initiates him to, on the other.
In a drama that spans more that three and a half hours, Bansali reduces Sharath Chandra's work to a run of the mill hollow romance Bollywood is replete with. He appears to have been more keen in adapting the famed novel to suit his gaudy sets, loud costumes, over the top sensitivities, the over-hyped music score and stretch the frame to exhaust the 50 Crore budget allotted by Bharat Shah. His leading pair, on their part, is only too keen to extend their pre-existent popular screen images and makes a mockery of the characters they have been invested with. Shah Rukh Khan, st.. st... st.. stammers while playing himself and could have done many of his shots for any of his other movies, KKHH, DDLJ, Asoka, et al. Trying to portray a pre-independence era, London educated zamindar scion who in all probabilities had imbibed the ways of a Pucca-Sahib in the same lines as that of the artificially intense, brooding yuppie metrosexual male he has gotten used to doing is a definite no-no. Aiswarya with her staid expressions lends further credence to detractors challenging her acting faculties. Jackie Shroff is unbearable as Chunnilal and should be debarred from acting in movies for a couple of years in the least. The sole relief in this otherwise protracted agony arrives in the form of Madhuri Dixit, quite at ease with her seductive dance numbers and heaving chest sighs as with her emotionally charged exchanges with a vacillating Devdas. The rest of the cast deliver a naught all put together, and are better off confined to Balaji Telefilms Soaps. Special mention should be made about Kirron Kher, who takes the cake when it comes to overacting. A tough act that, in amovie where every actor seems to be outdoing each other in acting excesses. Sanjay, please spare us a thought, don't make her dance ever in your films. Meaningful cinema, however, does not seem to be any the better with Bansali's efforts.
DVD Review: A true tribute to the greats of Saratchandra Chattopadhy
Summary: 5 Stars
A fine example of the brilliance of indian cinema.One of the very few Bollywood films that can match any high standards set up for good-film-making.The role which Shahrukh khan has played as Devdas brings tears to your eyes a hunderd times and his portrayal of a lost lover is simply awesome, one we rarely find in other masala bollywood flicks.The 50 crores spent on this film are worth spent.You experience it yourself.After the film is over, some scenes will remain in your memory for a long long time. The one when Devdas holds the hand of Paro at her marriage, The one when Devdas comes back home at the demise of his father, the one when Paro runs to meet Devdas at the end of the movie ,the one when Devdas is dying and utters the last word of his life 'Paro', and this list will never end.......DVD Review: Boundless Beauty
Summary: 5 Stars
Truly a treasure in bollywood cinema, this film has got it all!
fantastic actors and actresses
ravishing wardrobe
complex and toe-tapping dance numbers and soundtrack
not to mention, the absolutely gorgeous scenery as an unneccessary but much appreciated back-drop to the attractive cast.
This movie is mainly a love story about two people whose affection for one another is ultimately doomed (which becomes evident very early on in the film). The star-crossed lovers' names are Devdas (played by Shahrukh) and Paro or Parvati (played by Aishwarya). After spending nearly a decade in London, working on his studies, Devdas returns to his homeland (India, of course) where awaits his bashful beauty, Paro, who has been pining away for him in his absence. Their love is soon rejuvenated, only for them to be separated once again when Paro marries another man and Devdas takes to the brothels (where he meets Chandramukhi, the charming courtesan, played by Madhuri Dixit) and the wine bottle.
The film's ending is both unexpected (for a bollywood film at least) and awe-inspiring.
Though it does have some weak points, this film will impress you one way or another.
DVD Review: Devdas is a must see
Summary: 5 Stars
I must say Devdas is one of the best Bollywood films I have seen. Shahrukh and Madhuri are the best, Ashwariya was lost but the film all over is great. Everything is so beautiful, the direction, music and dancing. not to mention the stunning tradional clothing and set.Shahrukh is the BEST!
and Devdas is a must-see
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