Blogs bowled over by Dev D

Blogs bowled over by Dev D

Blogs are bowled over by by Anurag Kashyap's Dev D. Lots of bloggers are giving rave reviews about the latest filmy version of an epic story originally set in early 1900's in West Bengal.u00a0

Blogger Sandyu00a0says that the movies has adapted itself to the current society.

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"I hadn't the slightest clue that the movie was a remake of Devdas! I only realized that halfway through the movie! The movie follows a pattern of few western movies like Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth," he says.

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"The whole story is about a man in a trance, due to whatever reasons in life. Dev-D does justice to that aspect and hence portrays the story more realistically and in a more classy fashion than Bhansali's true-to-the-book version!"

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Chittaranjanu00a0feels that the story is nothing new but Anurag Kashyap's narrative style brings about a "refreshing newness" to it.

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"The first half is pretty engrossing as well as entertaining. There was no feeling of undergoing emosanal atyachar or anything like that but the second half did make me feel a wee bit of audio-visual atyachar. Too much of random psychedelic lightings, close-ups, dizzy camera angles and background songs," says the blogger.

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"One of the more popular reviewers said that the movie will either dazzle or drain viewers but I'll respectfully steer clear of both and would say that I was impressed by it, favourably enough."

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'Fabulous music'

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Darshit Joshiu00a0is one of the bloggers impressed by the film's music.

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He lists out all those "fabulous tracks" including the much-talked about Emosanal Attyachaar.

"Really. This is such a grand track, I can't get enough of it. How can a lyricist think for such weird but still lovable track? There is a story behind it, too. But seriously, using unique music setup ever - Brass Band and with Desi words and singing by 'Rangeela and Raseela' -the band members. Wah Wah."

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Most of the bloggers seem to have been bowled over by the film's music with Emosanal Attyachaar gaining rave reviews.

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Blogger Harshvardhan Pandeu00a0calls it the most "Indian" music he has heard in a long time:

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"This has been by far the most "Indian" album I've heard in a long time. Amit Trivedi, take a bow! There are a few new gen music directors in India who seem to have forgotten that this is still a country where people speak and listen to Hindi and not NRI-style Hindi [a la Vishal Dadlani and co with songs like "thumka lagai ke she'll rock your world, my desi girl!"]," says the Pande.

"The feel of the album is amazing. The lyrics are really good, some songs are crazy [Emosanal Attyachaar], some songs are hummable [Paayaliya] and some songs are great [Nayan Tarse]."

The blogger hopes that Amit Trivedi gets more albums to compose and does as good a job.

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There are some bloggers who are taking a critical look at the film, like this blogger who feels the writing lacks consistency as "it swings between boring and very interesting constantly."

However, the blogger says that Amit Trivedi's music sounds good to the ears. "Emosanal Attyachaar is already popular, besides a couple of other songsu00e2u0080u00a6Rajeev Ravi's cinematography captures the rustic look of North India well."

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