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Dev D

Year:

2009

Duration:

144 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

8.1

Director:

Anurag Kashyap

Awards:

6 wins & 11 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2009-02-06

Filming Locations: Chandigarh, Punjab, India

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $10,950 (USA) (8 February 2009)

Gross: $10,950 (USA) (8 February 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Abhay Deol

Dev

Mahie Gill

Paro

Kalki Koechlin

Leni

Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Chunni

Sindbad Phgura

The Twilight Players

Ammo 'Too Sweet'

The Twilight Players (as Ammo 'Too Sweet')

Jimi the Quiff

The Twilight Players (as Jimi 'The Quiff')

Parakh Madan

Rasika

Kuldeep Singh

Paro's father

Gurkirtan

Dev's father

Sanjay Kumar

Leni's father

Aseem Sharma

Bhuvan

Satwant Kaur

Dev's mother

Shena Gamat

Owner of Hotel Welcome

Helen Jones

Leni's mom

Binu Dhillon

Dwij Dhillon

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Patna Ke Presley (as Nawazuddin)

Nitin U. Chainpuri

Patna Ke Presley

Aekansh Vats

Junior Dev

Geeta Handa

Bar Lady next to Abhay Deol

Sasha Shetty

Junior Paro

Anil Chopra

Junior Dwij

Karamjit Anmol

Cyber Café guy

Sunil

Sunil's friend

Anjum Batra

Sunil - Factory worker

Roopa Sood

Paro's mother (as Rupa Sood)

Mohinder Dogra

Bhuvan's father

Neha Kholsa

Dwij's wife

Vasan Bala

Trumpeteer

Hareesh

Band party

Shlok Sharma

Leni's boy friend

Jasleen Kaur

TV reporter

Ashutosh Sharma

Leni's suitor

Gurdeepak Kaur

Leni's grandmother (as Mrs. Gurdeepak Kaur)

Ramesh Bhardwaj

Leni's uncle

Purshotam Hans

Chanda's make-up man (as Parshotam Hans)

Sanjay Oberoi

Taj Mahal receptionist

Akash Dhaiya

India Café waiter

Thani

India Café passerby

Ashish R. Shukla

Manager

Surekha Sikri

Bus passenger

Kundan

Taj Mahal bellboy

Sanjay Maurya

Steaming momo's owner

Ajay Rai

Hotel Welcome customer

Bimal Barua

Lawyer

Navin Kaushik

Avtaar Singh

Taxi driver (as Dr. Avtaar Singh)

Anshul Sharma

Biker

Parvez Khan

Bar owner

Anurag Kashyap

Man who offers Chanda a candy (uncredited)

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Trivia

Director Danny Boyle helped Anurag Kashyap with the 'tripping away' scenes by introducing him to a special camera he (Boyle) had got from Holland. This let Kashyap show whats going on inside characters mind during the drug shots without actually showing drugs.

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The idea of this film was suggested to Anurag Kashyap by Abhay Deol, who plays the lead role. It was once narrated to Anurag at a party by actor Abhay long before he had taken up his acting career.

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There are a number of references to the film Devdas (2002) (since Dev D and Devdas (2002) are both based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Devdas"). The film Lennie/Chanda is watching in the bus and later in her room in the brothel where she chooses her name to be Chanda is Devdas (2002). Outside the hidden bar in New Delhi that Dev visits, has a poster of Shah Rukh Khan lighting a cigarette taken from Devdas (2002).

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Goofs

At around 59 mins Chunni calls out to Chanda to show her the bike he has purchased for her. While Chanda looks out from the Balcony, Chunni points to himself, his body language leading to my conclusion that it is for himself, while this mismatch is carefully patched by adding a dialogue ("Yes, for you") from Chunni, while the camera focuses on Chanda.

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Dev calls Paro and the time shown in the movie is 11PM. Just after the call Dev goes to buy liquor but Dev is staying in Delhi and in Delhi liquor shops are closed by 10PM.

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(at around 1 min) Chunni calls out to Chanda to show her the bike he has purchased for her. While Chanda looks out from the balcony, Chunni points to himself, his body language leading to my conclusion that it is for him, while this mismatch is carefully patched by adding a dialogue ("Yes, for you") from Chunni, while the camera focuses on Chanda.

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Faq

Is this a remake of "Devdas"?

No. Although, the characters are similar since, both movies are based on a novella "Devdas", by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. There have been films prior to Devdas(2002) that have been made based on the novella.

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