Dev D Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Cool based on 7 reviews
Avg. User Rating
3.5
Verdict: Super Hit based on 79 reviews & ratings
5.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
THANK God for the mavericks, the non-conformists, the infidels, the les enfant terribles. They make things happen when kitsch becomes king; when creativity crumbles; when formula pervades, fungus-like. Imagine a world without rule breakersRead full review4.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Dev D is one such flight of fancy from the filmmaker that definitely defies all conventions and demolishes all moulds.Read full review
3.5
Shashi Baliga | Hindustan Times
To reprise one of Hindi cinema’s most-remade storylines would require both courage and an audacious new vision. Director Anurag Kashyap is equipped with both. And he gives as much as he takes from this classic tale of a love lost and pined for.Read full review
3.5
Raja Sen | rediff.com
I've always thought Devdas could only be told in black and white. For it is a bunch of flabbergastingly unidimensional characters -- drunkard, pining lover, courtesan -- that populate Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's essentially simplistic storyRead full review
3.0
Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph
Bimal Roy told the story. Sanjay Leela Bhansali constructed the sets. Anurag Kashyap has sexed it up. In the hands of Bollywood’s enfant terrible, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas undergoes a sea change or, rather, a sex changeRead full review
3.0
Udita Jhunjhunwala | DNA India
The premise of Dev D is well known and oft told. It's been made three times before just as a film, but the success of Anurag Kashyap's latest venture is the changes made within the parameters of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's classic taleRead full review
2.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Not every film is required to entertain its audience, but every film must engage its viewers. Now that's a tall order when the film in question centers around the most boring, uni-dimensional character Indian literatureRead full review
1.0
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
There's a major difference between K.L. Saigal, Dilip Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan and Abhay Deol's Devdas. The first three films were faithful to Sarat Chandra's legendary novella, while Anurag Kashyap's deviant take on DevdasRead full review
