Dev-D – Modern Devdas – A Review

Dev-D – Modern Devdas

Well, as usual I saw this movie in our local cable while simultaneously surfing other channels – and this is what I saw …and concluded:

A Punjabi fella living in a remote village of Punjab or maybe Harayana gets an opportunity of a life time – guess what? He gets a chance to go abroad. How/what/when is not shown in the movie – whether he got a break as a ‘coolie’ (porter), waiter, cab driver, sweeper….whatever – its not shown in the film. What happens is that he gets yet another million dollar break – he meets with a fair damsel – a blonde – who agrees to marry him…and live happily ever after! How he met the blonde is not shown in the film…whether she was a ‘strip tease dancer’ or a ‘part time hooker’ or whatever – her family background is not shown.

Now that you know about this couple – let me proceed with the film…they both give birth to a baby daughter. Now imagine her state folks – 2 different and diverse cultures – it surely must have confused her – who/what to follow and associate with – blonde mother or remote Indian rustic father? ….

She found a better way – follow none! So this utterly confused daughter who was pampered by both parents had her priorities pretty clear! As soon as she started ‘chumming’ (started her menstrual cycle ie.) she found a mate to ‘do the needful with’ – I cant write the ‘f’ word because it is censored in many forums. So when her parents thought that their daughter had left home in a school uniform – little did they realize that she was taking off her school uniform at the bat of an eyelid and jumping nude on bed with a mate – a mate she had found on the street – he had a bike so that was enough to impress her!

This mate was into making blue films and MMS-ing such films in the entire town. So in one of her ‘escapades’ with her ‘mate’ – he made a ‘blue’video – of her doing ‘things’ stark naked – and mms-ed it all around! Every one came to know this – including parents of course – parents fly abroad with the daughter – as they could not face anyone – they were so very ashamed blah blah…

While they were trying to settle abroad and pretending that things are fine, her father managed to get the ‘blue’ film of his daughter and commented to his wife – in his daughter’s presence – that she was very ‘active and participating’ in the blue film and that she was not being ‘raped’ – something she must have said to escape the wrath of the moment. The daughter asks her father ‘how could you see the blue film?’ and guess what ? – the Indian rustic father commits suicide !! – he feels very guilty of the fact that he saw his daughter performing stark naked……Well it makes me wonder how fathers otherwise watch their daughters gyrate on the pole and perform on cheap music to seduce ‘sex-starved’ males all around the world !!..they are probably urban fathers I guess – and greedy..evil …and money-minded as well – who allow it to happen to their daughters…and merrily gorge on the goodies their daughters get by dancing semi-nude in public…or doing many ‘other’ things as well with males equal to their grand-father’s age !! Okay lets call this female ‘Chandra’

Anyways, scene change.

Now there is another girl ‘Paro’– belonging to a middle class family who is in love with the neighborhood fella – who is richer that her – who also loves her…..who had gone abroad – who had come back to his village after a long time…blah blah – story of Devdas.

Another male in the locality who was after Paro makes derogatory comments about Paro and sows seeds of suspicion in Devdas’s mind regarding her (Paro’s) chastity and loyalty. Devdas starts behaving in an unruly fashion – and so to appease him, Paro bundles a Dunlop mattress behind her bicycle so that she can ‘do the needful’ with Devdas in the fields !!! Details are not shown but what we get to see is that Devdas slaps her and goes away – whether they successfully ‘did the needful’ is not quite clear – maybe they did.

So Devdas refuses to marry Paro, his family was also against it – so Paro gets married to a rich widower with 2 offsprings. Devdas, in his fury, starts ‘doing IT’ with Paro’s sis-in-law! Paro watches them – but cannot comment as she had also actively started her ‘sex-life’ with her new husband. Devdas later dumps the sis-in-law and goes haywire – starts drowning himself in alcohol and reaches a brothel.

In the meantime Chandra abandons home and reaches exactly what she was born for – a brothel! She realizes that if she completes her studies, she will be able to get better educated clients who will pay her more – so starts her sob story – morning ‘studying’ and night ‘humping’! Devdas meets her in this brothel. They spend time with each other and eventually get married.

Conclusion:

• Movie is trying to propagate to the ‘just-started-chumming’ females that they can happily start ‘spreading their legs’ as eventually they will meet some dumb and rich hero who will marry her. Dev is the hero of the film remember – so who gets the hero – a whore ! great!
• Also the fact that females who pretend to be nice and homely needn’t necessarily be so – as Paro is also shown to be so desperate that she took a mattress in the fields to ‘hump’ with her mate!

• Esoteric significance: Chandra is re-incarnation of Surpanakha and Paro of Mandodari. Both unhappy – belonging to the clan of spineless, sex-starved, greedy males. Period.