Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Into oblivion with cocaine..

Watched DEV.D today......blowed me away.what a film!!
Thank God for Anurag Kashyap, i mean imagine a world without rule-breakers.When creativity crumbles,mavericks come forth.

The movie is a long flight of fancy from its first frame,
its unusual cinematography, dizzy editing, non-linear plot, turn-of-the-century dialogues and breathtakingly bizarre audio track should all fetch extra brownie points for it.

Dev D is like that heady cocktail which has the vodka pitched perfectly with the tang. (Incidentally, Dev D likes his vodka with thumbs up, washed down in unlimited portions, morning, noon and night!)Abhay Deol turns out to be the new archetypal "hero" with his coke,joints and vodka,a paradigm shift from the sugar-coated self-destructive metrosexual icons of the industry.The film is splattered with inspirations from Kafka,Sartre and my demi-god Kurt Cobain.

It really doesn't matter whether the film ends up as a box office scorcher.Tracks like ‘saali khushi', nayan tarse' re-invents mainstream bollywood music.It should go down in history as one of the most radical Indian films, at least in its delineation of male and female sexuality.

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