Devdas gets sexed up this Friday

‘Come, Fall in Lust’, says the punchline of this film that only borrows the basic plot from the classic novel but contemporizes it to a present-day setting where teenage girls are kicked out of their homes because of MMS sex scandals and jilted lovers find solace in drugs.

The first germ of the idea for this film came from Abhay Deol who inspired Anurag Kashyap , the irrevocable maverick, to adapt Devdas to a modern milieu. The director, in his turn, incorporated the headline making news of Gen X into the plot to make the film more accessible to today’s youth. Kashyap also changed Devdas from a self-destructive to a self-discovering hero.


Even as the scripting was going on, Anurag had finalized Abhay and Mahi Gill to play the roles of Devdas and his childhood crush, Paro. But he couldn’t find an actress willing to play Chandramukhi because Kashyap gave a sexual makeover to the character. When regular Bollywood heroines showed no interest, Kashyap auditioned a number of new girls before Kalki Koechlin was finalized.

Interestingly, most of the girls who came for audition tried to act overtly sexual, but that only put Kashyap off.

“All I wanted was to see a girl who was discovering her sexuality in a very simple way,” Kashyap is quoted as saying.

Kashyap found that in Kalki, with whom he eventually fell in love while shooting the film.

Hoping to reach as many viewers as possible this time around (he still hasn’t forgotten the fate of No Smoking ) Kashyap made the movie a musical with as many as 15 songs.

And to further sex up the curiosity, the makers have been doing a unique publicity stunt in which free condoms are being given to people invited to the film’s premiere.

Talk about thinking out of the box!



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