The chronicles of Dev D - the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Or : the drugs, the slut, and the oh-my-goodness-its-not-over-yet!

I always considered watching a movie on the first day, first show to be something good. Not proud or anything. Basically a positive emotion. But after watching Dev D on the first day, first show, these emotions are dead. i.e. the emotions are attyachaar'd.

I read a few reviews this evening and the reasons for the positivity seems to be that the portrayal of the original characters from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's book is finally truthful. And that the previously portrayed characters were all too uni-dimensional. Well, its hard to disagree to that. Take for example Dev- The pampered brat who always seems to blow all the money his dad gives for a car, by snorting drugs, and yet buys a BMW later. He basically does everything considered a no-no for a goody-goody guy and just when you think "aw, atleast he's not a murderer", he becomes one. Very multi-dimensional that is.

The plus point of the entire thing was that throughout the movie we had the satisfaction that the six little zombie puppies were spared of the emotional attyachaar.

"Do you drink?" ..... "Like a Phish!"

Thats seems to be the central theme of Dev D .

"Tauba tera jalwa , tauba tera pyaar .... tera emotional atyachar ...."

That song though silly has hilarious lyrics (despite what kow thinks) . But thats about it . Nothing else in the movie is worth mentioning .

It supposed to be a modern day version of Devdas . It just felt like some story of a drugged up drunkards life . The romance part i must have missed somehow . Second half of the movie is just abhay deol , who plays Dev in the movie , stumbling from either a bar or towards a girl . There is literally nothing else in this movie . No drama , certainly no comedy(despite what teacher thought) , no action , no thrill . I just feel blank after watching this movie . How this got 5 stars in TOI i'll never know . Maybe the review guy drinks a lot and does drugs or something , cos the only way to actually like this movie is to watch it when your high, or when your drunk cos you wont realise what your watching that way .

5 stars!!! . I still dont get it. Has to be a misprint.