WELL D

Er..that would be WELL DONE Mr Anurag, stupendous job as a sensitive, artistically inclined ( although a bit dark) brave new face of bollywood. Well done indeed. You truly are a great student of cinema. Zooming on then,to the bizzarely twisting life of a modern Devdas, one does get the feeling of helplessness and bitterness that some indulgences and prejudictions of this man begets him. He is easily drawn into the most prolific killing trap of all romances;doubt and jealousy. Spoilt brat that he is, soon enough he hits the bottle to confront his callous shallow self. And predictably looses wheel after wheel in a already bumpy shaky ride of his life. Turning into an insufferable nervous jerk of an alchoholic, he stumbles into the life of his alter ego, the taunting, sizzling, soothing social outcaste, his Chandramukhi. Never to be sure of anything, he looses some more of his sanity here too, for a brief while even trying to serenade his by now ex, messing up every bit of it. All along he chases his own shadow, always unsure, always the heartbreaker, always the impossible. A few near fatal episodes later, he calms down some what, but looses everything that he was so proud of all his life. The climax isn't that gloomy, a detour from the classic novel. That's alright. The purpose is served. We end up smacking our lips at a great feast(and boozing)of in your face cinema.This is great stuff man! Only the brave travel the path less frequented, and this director shows a thing or two about creating a niche.The dark atmosphere is suitably fed with a controlled narrative, the out of control life of a looser perfectly showcased. The film never looses its focus, albeit a little repetative with the boozing binges of our fallen hero, but we gulp that down too in a single shot. Bring on more directorji! Deol the third is by now the most celebrated artist of the parallel movement. And he doesn't dissapoint. The ladies steal the thunder from time to time, as per their screen space.The music has a few decent tracks with one of them really a emosonal rejuvenator. Good camera work, especially of the drunken scenes. The cinematography captures every mood perfectly. Dialogues are deliberately colloquial and expletive laden, adding to the zing factor. Finally the dream merchants have started to deliver out of the dream world. Keep going. The world is watching.