"The path towards self destruction has fancied all men but all do it in a quiet corner of their day dream or with a peg of whisky along a buddy's weekend. But what if someone is really on a confused path of self destruction? Well then you are a DevD. The film came to Anurag via Abhay when Abhay was in Las Vegas and heard the story of a regular Romeo who used to visit a strip club in vengeance of a lost relation. Anurag agreed almost instantly when Abhay proposed and the duo decided to film it with a modern tango of the "Sarat Chandra" classic "devdas". Anurag decided to use Punjab to set up the childhood context of Dev and Paro while shifting the youth to Pahargang in Delhi. Both turned out to be a great move as Paro here is a lady from the village. She is rustic yet sexually provocative. Dev retains the flavor of a rich US return man who is indeed driven by his desire of lust and his tall ego of the riches just adds to his long list of weakness. The result was that Paro dumps him as she saw no future in her relationship. Enter Chandra, when a school girl discovers her transition to adulthood and does a blunder of a mms that goes backfire and viral. A sorry state to be family disowned and hence finally shifts in underground escort services in Delhi. Chuni plays a role of a story catalyst and helps and disowns Dev as his needs. A parasite who plays his cards with the chemistry of Dev and Chandra and then just vanishes. The film was cult and a trend setter in camera work where Anurag used a point to shoot 11 frame camera imported from Amsterdam to shoot Dev's hallucinations while drunk. The "twilights players" are a real bunch who played cons as the story progressed. The song "Saali Khushi" was actually a mistaken take for "Saari Khushi" and the wrong take was finally selected for the punch. The story paces very fast as the film hits delhi and one can see Dev getting trapper more in the state of confusion of love and addictions. His destiny goes against him when he gets in a hit and run case and loses his rich father. Dev's final attempt to seek truth about his love takes him to the northern hills which sets the climax and his ground touch. Frustrated, weak, poor Dev takes a rebirth along the same old momo galli in delhi when Chandra rescues him. The sudden end of the film adds to end the loop that audience goes through and a clear depart from the classic. Anurag thankfully ends it on a high note and this is what the film stands out from the numerous prior devdas films. DevD for sure would remain one of the best works of Anurag and Abhay, no doubt this film is a collector's item and I am sure you dnt mind watching it again tonight. Just a word of caution Devdas is and will always be a looser. His sorry state of affairs make him a legend, so dnt take him too seriously. Just enjoy the film".