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D: The Rise of Deshu
03rd June 2005 23.30 IST
By Nitika Desai

Ram Gopal Varma’s production ‘ D ’ is a must watch for the lovers of good cinema. The movie grips you right from the beginning and keeps you glued till the very end.

‘D’ is raw, rugged and realistic. Set against the squalid, life-like back lanes of Mumbai, ‘D’ tells the story of Deshu, brilliantly played by one-film-old Randeep Hooda . The film also marks an impressive comeback by actor Chunky Pandey .

Deshu (Hooda) is a quiet young man who witnesses the killing of a man in his chawl by gangsters who work for a Bhai named Maangli.

The police round up Deshu to identify the killer. Deshu knows that if he identifies the killer, he will be the next on Bhai’s hit list. So he chooses to take the beating by the cops instead.

After this, Deshu approaches Maangli’s rival bhai, named Haashim (Goga Kapoor), with a deal that he will kill Maangli for a place in Haashim’s gang.

Deshu kills Maangli and wins Haashim’s confidence. Thereby begins the rise of Deshu in the underworld. He becomes one of the trusted men of Haashim, but is envied by the latter’s two sons Mukarram and Shabbir (played by Sushant Singh and Yashpal Sharma), who can’t digest Deshu’s good fortunes.

They convince Haashim that Deshu has been cutting more than his share of money in the deals. The bada bhai gives his nod to act against Deshu. And thus begins a bloody battle in which many, including his sidekick Raghav (Chunky Pandey), are killed.

Director Vishram Sawant deserves full credit for making a gripping crime thriller that neither glorifies crime and killing nor does it preach any moral lesson. Sawant tells a simple tale with compelling honesty and without straying too much into style at the cost of substance.