Devdas

India 2002, 185 minutes
Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
In Hindi with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Epic

Topics: Period 1920s, Bollywood.

Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai

Aroview: The most expensive production in Bollywood history to date is this gorgeously extravagant soap opera based on one of India’s most widely-read and often filmed novels.

Created on a grand visual palette that might be accused of dominating the characters, lifestyles of the rich and miserable play out in palatial dwellings and 1920s designer period garb as handsome lawyer Devdas turns to alcohol after his plans to marry his childhood sweetheart are dashed by his aristocratic family.