tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post7970595757397435710..comments2023-12-19T08:12:59.428-08:00Comments on Post-Punk Cinema Club: Devdas (2002)a ppcc representativehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03533616493105736109noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-88329677664077112652011-11-21T12:59:47.614-08:002011-11-21T12:59:47.614-08:00A little late to the party but I highly recommend ...A little late to the party but I highly recommend the old (possibly 1950s?) Telugu version of Devdas.<br />The writers and song-writers took the story to a different level, making it a philosophical and spiritual awakening from a seeker Devdas looking for a deeper meaning after being rejected in love.<br />The old Hindi Devdas doesnt seem to have the same spiritual-seeker flavor but is not an overblown pathetic character like SRK's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-51874194828292230122010-07-04T22:37:31.713-07:002010-07-04T22:37:31.713-07:00Amen, PPCC, praise the projectionist and let me ou...Amen, PPCC, praise the projectionist and let me outta the theater. Please, I need a shower to rinse off the ick of this film. I gotta say, this one tips the scales as washed out eye candy and boiled over melodrama. <br /><br />There is something so unappealing about the "hero" that by 90 mins in, I was yelling at him on the screen and not nice things either. What a spineless sponge of a doofus. Seems the only thing he can stand up to is a fly. If I was ever going to forgive anyone in this role, it would have been Shahrukh. Sadly even his ability to project pathos left me unimpressed. Ms. Rai was, er.... decorative in the extreme. She made a momentary try at developing a tart side in the final hour but even that fell flat. There's something deflated about her character. And the actress who plays the courtesan was grating in the extreme. <br /><br />Source material is probably the origin of much of this drek but I am sure as heck not inclined to read the novel to find out. To those who adore this film, and there are many, I respect your love of it and wish for you many repeats of gorgeously filmed heartbreak. You can throw your empty popcorn on my seat with my blessing. :)JDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-77789210637177996992010-02-23T02:53:20.146-08:002010-02-23T02:53:20.146-08:00ajnabi said it better than I ever could. I did fee...ajnabi said it better than I ever could. I did feel uncomfortable with SLB's vision..or what I think I understand about it, anyway. But having read the director's background (yep, I love reading biographies ^^:), I think I can empathize.<br /><br />I penned 6 poems after coming out of this movie. It sucked me so much into it's dark, depressing world..I was a depressed individual back then. I particularly love the last train ride Deva took. Boy o boy, how I thought that journey mirrors what life is. <br /><br />Devdas was made during one of the darkest hours in SRK's life, he got hurt in that falling-of-the-stairs scene, he doesn't normally drink but for the drunken scenes in Devdas he was drunk for real..so much so that his friends & family worried he'd turn alcoholic. Having said that, I think his best scenes in Devdas are the ones nearing the end where he can't even walk straight and verbally abusing everyone. Wish someone gives SRK a full-blown 'depressed individual' role in a commercially viable movie some day. He'd be really good at it.Amihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459004212652808197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-18265095163415864232009-06-29T04:32:24.650-07:002009-06-29T04:32:24.650-07:00Please review Dev D !!!Please review Dev D !!!rPshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13205986005544986375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-42669710220124125322008-12-29T02:58:00.000-08:002008-12-29T02:58:00.000-08:00I don't think the film requires sympathy with eith...I don't think the film requires sympathy with either Devdas or Paro. I think Shah Rukh Khan's character in Dil Se is almost like a Paro in some ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-54917217549697517812008-12-18T13:18:00.000-08:002008-12-18T13:18:00.000-08:00This one grew on me. Didn't like it at first-for m...This one grew on me. Didn't like it at first-for many of the reasons you've listed--but tortured myself to rewatch a few times and actually ended up liking it. A lot. <BR/><BR/>Madhuri as Chandramuki was awesome! I've tried to imitate "Maar Daala" one too many times in the mirror...and don't get me started on "Silsila Ye Chaayat Ka"...<BR/><BR/>Ok, so I need to re-do my review on KANK. Please don't even bother reading it. It was early on in my blogging days and I don't think I even reviewed the movie--I more or less tried to get into the adultery issue and the sugarcoated ending(one of Kjos faults is his endings, I always say) I recently rewatched and decided I do like this film. There's so many good things about it! You're not alone in liking this one--I'm going to repost soon!NidaMariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03979527736140327136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-45822528042219274962008-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:002008-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:00Ajnabi - Please do disagree! You make very good po...Ajnabi - Please do disagree! You make very good points, too. This is a strange film, because, as Beth and you now know re: Barsaat, the PPCC just loooves Byronic heroes. And Devdas is definitely one of those. I think the reason this movie grated so much was that I found the emotions over the top and strangely artificial - maybe it was just the overly dramatic background music? I know, I watch Bollywood, you'd think I was used to it. But I found SRK's performance as indulgent and narcissistic as Raj Kapoor's performance in Aag, for example. So I think I'd be game for other versions of Devdas (Amitabh Bachchan's version - in Muqaddar ka Sikandar - still irritates me a little, but at least in that one, I cry, which I think is the targeted audience reaction), if it was done a bit differently. <BR/><BR/>AH! OK, I think I figured out what I didn't like: I think I didn't like Sanjay Leela Bhansali's glorification of Devdas' destructive antics. I think the way it should be handled is that you come at it from a condemnatory angle, but then feel pity and ultimately sympathy for Devdas. SLB, instead, seemed to skip the condemnatory and go straight for sympathy, which I definitely could not feel.<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless, SRK's aesthetics were top notch. Studly.<BR/><BR/>And, in terms of movies that everyone else hates but only I love, have you seen Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna? GUH. SRK is Byronic again, with even a limp. How gothic and wonderful!the PPCC is a big fat idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16288839284512965083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-56491218904541425642008-05-29T09:12:00.000-07:002008-05-29T09:12:00.000-07:00I must beg leave to disagree with the illustrious ...I must beg leave to disagree with the illustrious PPCC on this one. ;-) I lurve Devdas. I think that it's to be expected that a hooker with a (to put it mildly) dysfunctional background would choose a really Giant Knobhead With No Knob (thank you, Bridget Jones) to focus all her considerable love upon. Since when do mistreated women pick healthy guys?<BR/><BR/>As far as Paro, well, her whole relationship with Deva is so completely childish and stuck in the past that it made sense to me that they acted the way they did. The visuals are gorgeous, I can't get enough of the soundtrack, and SRK plays did an adequate job, though I think a younger actor would've been more appropriate for the role of callow spineless youth. Overall I'd give it an 8 out of 10. But, sometimes I think I'm the only one. :-Dajnabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296593338690811213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-18857656198967719282007-11-29T08:56:00.000-08:002007-11-29T08:56:00.000-08:00I couldn't agree more. I can't stand this film, a...I couldn't agree more. I can't stand this film, and were it not for the songs it would have nothing to recommend it. But I am really writing especially because you noted the main aspect of *Devdas* that disgusts me - the fact that not one but *two* tough and beautiful women lose themselves in love for the abusive, selfish, pathetic waste of skin that is Devdas.Filmi Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03452657736759131107noreply@blogger.com