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*Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Devdas

Young Devdas is born into an aristocratic family, with every privilege imaginable. As a child, his only playmate is Paro, a girl from a middle-class family that lives nearby. As they grow up, their friendship grows into love, but Devdas must go away to England to further his education. When he returns, his father forbids him from marrying his love and he ends up with the courtesan Chandramukhi. Destined to be loved by two women, but cursed to never be with the one he truly loves, Devdas is a stunning Bollywood adaptation of the classic Indian novel.

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Good movie, bad copy - nobbymcdobby

I enjoyed this film, good cinematography, expensive sets and costumes, overall a good experience. It's extremely long (3 hours) but genuinely engaging throughout. I have to say that the copy I received is a bad encoding: it's not a clean copy of the movie. It has intermittent digital artifacts, pixellations that occur throughout. It looks as though it has been downscaled, encoded at a lower quality and then transferred to DVD. Not unwatchable but a poor quality transfer that is a bit surprising since this is a fairly recent film.

Landmark Bollywood film - ryemang

Devdas, starring Aishwarya Rai and Shahrukh Khan, is a film adaptation of a classic Bengali story about forbidden love. This is not the first time the story has been made into a film (in fact there are at least seven previous film versions of this story, dating back to the 1920s), however, this is a landmark Bollywood film because at the time of its production, it was the most expensive Bollywood film ever made (about $10 million USD, an insane amount of money for an Indian film).

Certainly we can see the result of this huge budget in the final product - the sets, costumes, and music and dance numbers are simply spectactular. This film won several Filmfare Awards (India's version of the Oscars) and was India's entry for nomination for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category in 2003, although it was not nominated in the end.

Although it's a sensory feast, in many way this is a typical Bollywood film, just done with a lot more glitz and glamour. Many of the themes found in Bollywood movies - division of social classes, loyalty to one's family, etc. - are present here.

If you can find it, try to see the 1955 version of this film, starring Dilip Kumar and directed by Bimal Roy - it's regarded by many to be a much more down-to earth production of this story, without so much sparkle (which is a good or bad thing depending on who you are).

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Good movie, bad copy - nobbymcdobby

Landmark Bollywood film - ryemang

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