Starring: Abhay Deol, Mahie Gill, Kalki Koechlin 
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Producer: UTV and Line produced by Flying Unicorn Entertainments
Dialogues: Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane
Art decoration: Sukanta Panigrahi
Cinematography: Rajeev Ravi
Rating: 4 must watch

Dev D is another medium budget film rocking the high charts. Yes, thats ‘Dev D’, Anurag Kashyap’s ultra modern take on age old ultimate lover character Devdas the novel written by litterateur Sarat Chandra Chatterjee. Though Devdas been adapted on screen many times and by some great filmmakers like P.C.Barua, Bimal Roy and lately Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Original Devdas has been known as the ultimate looser lover who drowns himself on loosing his love and goes into the self-destruction mode. whereas, Kashyap’s Dev D [a.k.a modern Devdas] is a hypocrite, raunchy, arrogant, self-seeking, a bastard of first order thinking of only self-gratification. who drowns in self-pity one who could not stand up for himself.

Abhay Deol plays ‘Dev D’, son of a rich industrialist, sent away to London at 12. Dev returns to his hometown motivated by nude pics of Paro (Mahi Gill), his childhood love. Paro marries to someone else. Dev’s depressed and drowns into drugs and alcohol, stays away from home, but gets finances from a doting father. He runs over some people in his BMW and daddy dies (read funds cut off). Dev starts looting payphones and narrowly misses death which suddenly does what even Chanda’s love couldn’t – gets him thinking straight. Smirnoff got new brand ambassador this time.

Mahie Gill plays ‘Paro’, who has no qualms about showing her wild sexuality as she cycles to sugarcane field with mattress tied to carrier, spreads it and herself, out coz her England returned Devdas wants some quality sex. The she explodes her frustrating emotions by pressing down on a hand pump.

Kalki Koechlin plays Chanda aka Lenny’, a rich student with likes for adventure. Owing to MMS scandal, she’s abandoned by family. Chunni, a pimp gives her shelter. Trapped by situation she ends up being high profile escort by night, while Lenny by day remains a college student.

Dev’s chemistry with Chanda is great coz of exchange of their woes with each other is one of the best parts of the movie. Like when she tells him her story while painting a sad clown face or the scene in sauna where Dev hugs Chanda and tells her "beta its ok".

Abhay Deol as Dev D, big hero of little cinema is stupid and sensitive. Chandramukhi overshadows Paro but still our Dev in whole movie drinks a lot. Dialogues are constantly quirky and cutting edge like when Chanda wonders aloud to Dev why people are so coy about calling sex worker a randi. Circumstances and characters are people we meet and know and are of this generation where plastic money like ATM debit and Credit cards are more important than cash. Mobile, email, chatting is used instead of traditional telegrams. Dev D is shot in the winters of Punjab and Delhi’s Phadpadganj, Connaught Pace and Old Delhi.

Anurag Kashyap the writer of cinema classics like Satya, Kaun, Shool, Yuva and critically acclaimed Water and Black Friday. Also liable for No-Smoking, Paanch, Gulal.

A boy on Date with girl in BMW.

Jaan ! Maine tumse ek baat chupaai hai ki I’m already married.
Girl: Oh GOD! tumne to dara hi diya, i thought this is not your car.

Remember Actress Rukhsaar, the girl you saw first in ‘Yaad Rakhegi Duniya’ long back in 1992 (BTW seems nobody even know the film) and then she disappeared from the industry. Now, she has managed a decent comeback with Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Sarkar’ and ‘D-Company’. In D-company she did a charming hot item number ‘Dhokebaaz’ and in Sarkar she was seen as Amitabh Bachchan’s elder daughter-in-law (wife of Kay Kay Mennon). This charming actress also did the Zee TV’s "Chi and Me", though it didn’t touched lucrative TRP’s.

When Rukhsar was last seen in Ram Gopal Verma’s Sarkar doing very decent and ideal Indian Bahu everybody they assumed as usual that now this hot chick will be playing. But now, with her new dare bare all avtar she is set to shock the audience with her dare bare avatar in Manish Gupta directed The Stoneman.

She has expressed interest to do south Indian films to prove her talent and says that comedy films are her first love (who cares for your love in this industry all it care is how much you show). Sarkar girl Actress Rukhsaar is reportedly upset with Manish Gupta, director of her new film ‘The Stoneman Murders’, who’s promoting her backless shot as a full fledged nude scene saying that his film has a nude scene by the actress.

Rukhsaar has completely denied saying she hasn’t shot for any nude scene ever. However, i read somewhere that Gupta asked all the crew members to leave the room while the scene was being shot in order to make Rukhsaar feel comfortable. But poor chap little knew that Rukhsaar was quite okay with the people being present and even asked why the place had to be evacuated.

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