How different is Dev D from the other Devdas films?
I guess contemporizing it has made all the difference. It’s very much the story by the book. I play the character to the best of the understanding of what the writer intended, within the scope of what he envisioned. So I hope I have got it right, I have read the book. It felt like a book that was meant to provoke, it was contemporary for its times and quite urban in many ways. The character is spoilt, kind of addicted and obsessive and so that’s what I have tried to play. In a sense the character of Devdas has been glorified As much as you want to glorify Devdas, he is not a glorious character. Even if that is the case we have stuck to the original story and so if it comes across as we are not glorifying him then that is great. I just attempted to play him as straight and as understandable as possible. Glorifying him was not in my head as much as making him relatable was. You and Anurag have been toying around the idea for a pretty long time, why did it take this long to materialize? I
