Muz wrote:
I can easily see this new version becoming a major disaster like Devdas ... the only good thing about that movie was Madhuri Dixit. Only an actress of the calibre of Madhuri Dixit (or perhaps Manisha Koirala) could pull this role off. Who will play Jabaa (Waheeda Rehman's character)? Maybe they'll get Kareena Kapoor to resurrect 'poo' once again to give a unique rendition of Jabaa!
It's a pity that Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas isn't getting its dues from those who think they know what 'good' films are. It's even more piteous that the many nut-jobs out there that love this film conclusively misreckon its greatness and appeal only towards its star-package. Bhansali's envisions to the film and his adaptation to Sarat Chandra's novel is outlying to its current time. As oppose to highlighting the simplistic mood, look, and feel to Sarat Chandra's (and maybe perhaps Bimal Roy's too) original ambitions, Bhansali has equally mastered its opposite end of the spectrum, and its stylish and aesthetic. And for a matter of one to argue that Madhuri Dixit was the only saving grace in the film, I could equally assail this and argue that she was infact the films weakest act, incontrovertibly a mistake on Bhansali's end.
Having to follow much of the cinema of South East Asia, explicitly Taiwan. I am happy and pleasured to say that Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas is India's answer to Hsiao-hsien Hou's Hai shang hua (Flowers Of Shanghai). Both films are a clear image of eachother, except that one isn't an adaptation to any novel. In any case, I suppose this is all good. Some of the best films ever made are primitively trashed by a majority.
As for the matter of a remake of Guru Dutt's masterpiece, I would like to see how Deepa Mehta features her adaptation using very pretentious actors, but more vitally how she makes this new film aesthetically her own.
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