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Movie Review: Devdas
Starring: Shah Rukh, Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff & Aishwarya Rai
Producer: Bharat Shah
Lyrics: Nusrat Badr
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Music: Ismail Darbar
Genre: Emotional classic
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The hugely talented Sanjay Leela Bhansali is
back with his next magnum offering. After winning over both the critics and the |
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audience with Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, it is
now time for the latest remake of India's most tragic love story, DEVDAS.
The story has been told many times in Indian cinema, yet it still has countless people on
tenterhooks, wondering if Sanjay Leela Bhansali will give it justice.
We see the characters of Paro and Devdas being best friends during childhood. They may be
on the opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to status and wealth, but together
play tricks on many a people and have got into many a troubles. It is one of these jokes
that also separates the |
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two friends, breaking up a world in which
only they exist. However fate dictates that they will meet again many years later.
That untouched love, that friendship, that existence still exists when Devdas returns back
home, a matured and stylish young man, who sees his childhood friend in a new light, in
the form of a very beautiful young woman. Is this really the chum with whom he dreamt of
sharing with a life?
Paro's mother decides that with a match that was definitely made in heaven she will speak
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Devdas' father, Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, to agree to their
joining. Zamindar Mukherjee does not feel the same as her and refuses this proposition. He
cannot understand how the one and only son of this family should marry someone of a lower
caste. In his |
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mind it simply cannot ever happen. Paro, who
has always thought that her life will always be with Devdas, decides to meet him herself,
in the shadows of the night, where no one will know that she offers herself to the only
man she has and would love till death.
Devdas decides to the take the matter into his own hands and speaks to his father, which
alas has no effect on the stubborn man. He leaves town penning a letter to Paro that she
should forget him and pretend that he never existed. But it is only when he leaves that he
realises that his love for Paro is too strong and their relationship cannot end in this
way. But Paro has been wounded by the humiliation that he caused and asks him to leave.
This punishment leads to the duo |
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separating ways once again. Paro decides to
marry a wealthy, yet much older man, Zamindar Bhuvan. Devdas on the other hand moves
towards anguish, alcoholism & Chandramukhi.
A stunning courtesan, Chandramukhi is hit by a burst of love and loses her heart to
Devdas. Her unrequited love is opposed by his disgust for her profession, but Chandramukhi
takes this as a token of his love. Devdas and Chandramukhi seek solace with each other and
their unique relationship, which has no name is fulfilling to both. But Devdas' love for
Paro is also met with this love for alcohol. Time passes and Chandramukhi renounces her
world of glamour, dance and music and makes a life in which only her and Devdas exist.
Paro takes on the role of wife and mother with sincerity and compassion, but she will be
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Two women may have loved Devdas, but neither
was ever meant to be his because Devdas stands alone in life. A day comes, when Devdas'
last moments are near, but Devdas had also promised Paro that he would meet her before his
life ends. Devdas reaches the gates of Paro's house, but when the gates remain closed, the
gates of heaven open for Devdas. A tragic ends to a touching and emotional classic.
Courtesy: Radiosargam.com |
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