1/06/2006

Devdas, India’s Doctor Zhivago

Title

Devdas (2002)

Directed by

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Writing credits

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (screenplay)
Saratchandra Chatterjee (as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay) (novel)
Prakash Kapadia (screenplay)

Selected Cast

Shahrukh Khan .... Devdas Mukherjee
Madhuri Dixit .... Chandramukhi
Aishwarya Rai .... Parvati ('Paro')
Jackie Shroff .... Chunnilal
Kiron Kher .... Sumitra
Smita Jaykar .... Kaushalya
Tiku Talsania .... Dharamdas
Vijayendra Ghatge .... Bhuvan Choudhry
Milind Gunaji .... Kalibabu
Ananya Khare .... Kumud
Manoj Joshi .... Dwijdas
Dina Pathak .... Bhuvan's mother
Ava Mukherji .... Dev's badi-ma
Vijay Crishna .... Narayan Mukherjee
Sunil Rege .... Neelkant


Review

Devdas is the story of a forbidden love between a wealthy young man and his childhood friend from an undesirable family.

Devdas is considered by many to be one of the best films to ever come out of Bollywood. This Indian film evokes the grandiose days of lavish Hollywood musicals. The sets are enormous, colorful and beautiful. The musical numbers are surreal presentations with dozens of dancers in bright costumes. The music is excellent and represents the best of Indian show music. Devdas is quite the artistic spectacle.

Like many classic Hollywood films, Devdas has a long, meandering plot that progresses rather slowly; however, Devdas has a big story with a lot of well-developed characters. With all that being said, here’s your warning. Most of the dialog in Devdas is in Hindi and Bengali. If you don’t like reading subtitles, you might find watching this film to be a challenge.

Rating (1-10)

7


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