Monday, June 15, 2009

Emotional Atyachar......!!!


Yesterday, I was browsing a financial site when my eyes stuck to an Arbitrage fund with ***** rating.

Suddenly, authenticity of the rating started to fizz my cerebral hemisphere and it reminded me of "Dev D"; back in Feb, it was given same rating by many News-papers/Critics/TV-Channels... and numerous self claimed expert reviewers.

Though, it's been months that I saw this movie; might be, you wud have forgotten the story too, but still I can't forget that Emotional Atyachar.......!!!!

Like most of us, I too decided to watch "Dev D" to witness the justification of these many stars and on top of that it was directed by someone who dares to be different......

I expected the story to stand for a Dev in a modern setting, dealing with all the trappings of contemporary India.
But what was that...... hardly a few minutes into story and a lecherous Dev decided to fly to India to quench his aphrodisiac for his childhood Love, who had just sent him a naked photo of her.

After several failed effort to find a secluded place, Anurag's creativity ended in a Sugarcane farm. Sharat Chand would have certainly been delighted to see his novel inspiring today’s youth getting attracted towards exploring Green India.

Apart from technical perfection in Cinematography, there was the part of story that I liked where Paro has been characterized as imprudent, yet demure; calculating, yet naive.
However, I could not really understand the part of the creativity in relating generation Y's take on infidelity where Dev shows no qualms romping in bed with other women.

When interval came, instead of Popcorn, once I thought of watching some laughter challenge episode, but accepting the fact that "Dev D" was not a regular movie, I digested all the Emotional Atyachar......!!!

Further, as the introduction of Chanda was obvious, nothing could have been easier for Writer than to pick a plot like DPS MMS.
Apparently, this was more like a S\W developer, who, after working for 14 hrs at a stretch, don’t even bother to change the variable name while doing copy-paste from some source.

There after, all I could observe was similar looking scenes involving drinks and sleazy hotels but they take the story nowhere. At some point of time, the story becomes so banal and stinking that made me feel as if it was a half roasted porn sponsored by some VODKA brand.

Well!! Stereotypical creativity was definitely not something I expect from director like Anurag Kashyap but it was too different to deserve a 5 *.
I am sure; I need to take a double check on those star ratings before going through another Emotional Atyachar...…!!!

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