Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Preview - Dev D

Dev D
Dev D is an upcoming movie in the year 2009 which is a Romantic Drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap as a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic novel Devdas. Dev D is a modern version of old Devdas where plastic money like ATM debit and Credit cards play more important role than hard cash, there is advance mode of communication technology like mobile, internet chatting instead of traditional means like telegrams. The star cast of Dev D includes Abhay Deol, Kalki and Mahi Gill. Dev D is produced by Ronnie Screwvala.

In Dev D, Abhay deol is playing a character of a Zamidar's son who name is Dev. He has a lovely friend as Paro (Mahi Gill). Paro and Dev love each other from the child hood. But the differences in status and caste make the prospect of their marriage impossible. After some time, Paro is married off to a rich but aged widower and Dev is sent to Culcutta. In culcutta Dev meets to Chandramukhi (Kalki) who is a prostitute. Paro helps him a lot. Ultimately Dev falls into a tragic cycle of excess due to an overpowering sense of remorse.

About Dev D Actor Abhay says "I thought Dev D was a perfect Romeo and Juliet to contemporaries and I wanted to fit into some issues which I felt are relevant and Anurag took it even further to a deeper level," . The music is given by Amit Trivedi. Most probably, Dev D would be in theaters in the month of February


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