Sunday, March 1, 2009

Dev D - Emotional Atyachar.

Dev D is a breathtaking demonstration on how to render the most static of stories irresistibly dynamic. It leaves you spellbound with never-imagined craze on the Indian cinematic canvas. It is inexplicable, but impeccable. Weird, true, distressing and entertaining too.

Which Bollywood movie would you find dialogues like "Arrey tumne Paro ki abhi tak nahi li, bahut garmi hain usme", "Dad, did you jerk off after seeing my mms", "I will not go around sucking every guys cock on the road"....

This movie adds a progressive quirk to both the plot and the characters which are played to perfection by the three lead players.

Dev -The Protagonist. A guy with no motive in life, who is adamant and outright  disrespectful towards his elders. Drinks Vodka with Thums Up,  Smokes Pot, Snorts Cocaine. A weak, whining, self-destructive individual with a malicious fascination for emotional cruelty, who always realizes the worth of something after he has lost it.

Paro - The Garmi girl. Sends nude pictures of herself on chats,  cycles into sugarcane fields with a mattress to check out the "Jora Jori in the Khet". She dances in her own wedding with such lusty abandon, her husband is taken aback by the firecracker he’s married.

Chanda - The fellatio and phone sex expert. Frustrated, violated, unloved teenager who rebels when friends and family desert her. Her claim to fame being an MMS ( a la DPS)

This is indeed a coming-of-age film which plays mystifying mind games with you. It might just go down in history as one of the most radical Indian films, at least in its depiction of male and female sexuality. Move over KL Saigal, Dilip Kumar, SRK..this Devdas is distinct.