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Overrated and very high profile movie compared to slumdog millionaire.


Dev. D is not a bad movie, that's okay. However, in this board it's very overrated, it doesn't deserve a rating above the eight and doesn't deserve to enter top 250 as some overrated movies in top 250 like it. Indians must continue to produce movies depending on reality, i hope we will see better examples.

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Are you crazy? This is one of the best made Indian films I've seen so far..along with Rang de Basanti and Omkara. It certainly deserves an 8 at the least for - excellent story telling, good direction, kick-ass soundtrack, great emotional connect with the audience (the youth here specially), etc..

The story is very reality based (about a heartbreak, for god's sake!!) , I don't understand why you say that! Neither is it high profiled (??).

Slumdog millionaire on the other hand, if you were in India, you'd know is a big joke here. It is poorly directed, bad acting, bad casting (Anil Kapoor??!), poor screenplay, unreal script etc. And the title track 'Jai Ho' is another big joke. Rehman himself probably laughed hard on it. He has done much much better respectable things in his life.

This movie, if you need to compare, kicks Danny Boyle's ass.

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DevD is not a bad movie but certainly not a masterpiece. Havent seen Slumdog..dont think it'll be great either.


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Are people on crack here?!
Dev.D is a breakthrough film in Indian Cinema for god's sake!

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Are people on crack here?!
Dev.D is a breakthrough film in Indian Cinema for god's sake!
Are you? Dev D might be a breakthrough for Bollywood, but definitely not Indian Cinema as a whole. Try watching some Indian movies that aren't big commercial Hindi movies.

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Slumdog millionaire on the other hand, if you were in India, you'd know is a big joke here. It is poorly directed, bad acting, bad casting (Anil Kapoor??!), poor screenplay, unreal script etc. And the title track 'Jai Ho' is another big joke. Rehman himself probably laughed hard on it. He has done much much better respectable things in his life.
you gotta be kidding me man... you're giving higher ratings to dev d over slumdog millionaire.. haha.. slumdog millionaire showed how the slums are in India.. that is reality.. when I was in India and I use to see so many blind kids on train and on road begging.. I use to wonder that damn there are soo many blind kids.. and seeing in the movie.. that why they're blind.. made sense.. most of the people that I know are pretty sure that what was shown in the movie is what happens to these kids.. thats why they're blind.. now thats reality..
The story is very reality based (about a heartbreak, for god's sake!!)
"the story is very reality based.. about heartbreak.." come on man.. you make me laugh.. so you're saying that if some dude comes up to you and tells you that he is been effing your gf.. you're gonna believe him..!!!! you will just breakup with your gf.. not even discuss with her..?? what a joke..!! I think the so called "youth in India" that you're talking about.. are confused about what reality is.. no wonder every other bollywood movie is a love story of a guy falling in love with someone's gf.. and she realizes that she is better with the new guy..!! every other movies that bollywood make nowadays for the "youth in India" are 'love aaj kal', 'i hate love stories' 'anjaana anjaani'.. and the list goes on.....!!

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you were just SCii Fiied..!!!

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Slumdog was the most overrated and overhyped *beep* I've ever seen in my life..!

Dev D and Gulaal are brilliant..!

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Ditto.. Slumdog was indeed the most over rated movie ever. It was not bad but it was not oscar worthy. The story was average and bollywood has made tons of movies on this subject, about ordinary poor kids getting involved in crimes. But since americans never saw these they thought slumdog is a very original movie.

Dev D on the other hand is a unique experience, great direction, brilliant music and great acting by Abhay Deol, but its not for average viewers with low IQ and a taste for cheap stupid movies. Gulaal is another masterpiece and I enjoyed it much more than slumdog.

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*beep* you u s.o.b..u ain't seen any real indian films..they are tons better thn any other movies made anywhrr else in the world..talkng about india..i'm sure you saw slumdog nd u were like..woww..kids getting involved with gangsters..brothers getting separated..meeting when they grow up blah blah..this formula has been done like a billion times in india..see amitabh bacchan's deewar for instance..talkng about acting..this movie sucked plainly..none of the actors knew how to show emotions..dev patel character..out of no where learns to speak english in a british accent without any primary schooling..he learns english by just serving tea to call centr agents..talkng about your newly found hottie..frieda pinto looks like my maid..no no..wait..i correct myself..my maid looks better then her..she has no face..no acting talent..she was nominated for a bafta just because she acted in a movie that was made by a British film maker that was sweeping awards world wide for i don't what reason..she was cast in the movie because the director didn't wanna waste any money, so he took the cheapest of the lot and she was cast..to tell you the truth..the lady who was cast in dev patel's mom's character was way more better lookng then her........

now..copming back to dev.d
dev.d is A BREAKTHROUGH for Indian cinema..excellent sound..excellent cast..excellent acting..excellent story..excellent direction...had this movie been made by an american..it would've broken all records..abhay deol nd kalki koechin nd mahie gill would've won an oscar for best actor in a leading role best actress in a leading role nd best actress in a supporting role respectively..

next time you try to make fun of any movie..try watching it first..had you seen dev.d..you urself would've deleted your post..

slumdog is nothing compared to dev.d

infact..the two cannot be compared..dev.d is way more better then slumdog..dev.d beats slumdog hands down anyday

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u said it mate!!!!!!!!

"Fools ignore complexity, experts avoid it; geniuses remove it."

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perhaps very few peps know here that anurag kashyap(the director of Dev.D) took help from Danny Boyle(Slumdog Millionaire) for clarifying some of his doubts regarding the picturisation of this movie(specifically the scenes in which dev gets high due to his budget constraint). Google it.

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perhaps you don't know that even danny boyle took anurag kashyap's help for shooting the slum scenes in slumdog..TRY GOOGLING this SUckAA

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totaly agree devd was good but too overrated

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Slumdog is not even an India film. Why are we comparing Dev D with Slumdog!!
Secondly, if u ask me, Dev D is way better then Slumdog!

Dev D for sure deserves the ratings it is getting!

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Slumdog was just a ridiculous bollywood film, made by a white guy.. hence its popularity ..

Even the soundtrack is so so average.. Rahman has done so much better in his career. The fact that this got him an oscar is seriously bewildering.. :/

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Both films are way overrated. I didn't think either of the films shows reality as it is. Yes you can argue that they are plausible somehow. Slumdog has a character who wins a game show and reunites with his love years later. I don't think we've seen anyone do that in reality. In Dev.D - we have some absolutely strange characters. There's Dev, who has nothing likable in him. I was thinking 'why am i watching a character who is completely one-dimensional. he's so predictable and unlikable' and then i knew the answer. it was because i had been told soooo many times that Dev.D is an awesome movie and I just HAD to watch it to see for myself. Then there's Chanda (the half-foreigner) who is depicted as someone who takes on prostitution as if it is like buying a dress or something. We still haven't let go of our stereotypes regarding half Europeans half Indians. I think Paro was the most 'natural' character. The rest were not properly thought out. All the actors did a good job with what they were given though.

Just because there's 'boldness' and some snazzy camerawork doesn't make Dev.D 'groundbreaking'. You want realism? Go watch some Iranian cinema. Or if you don't want to go as far as that - check out Hindi films from the Golden Era (1940s - 1960s). Then prove to me how groundbreaking this is.

I do agree the movie had some good points but the bad outweighed the good for me. Probably better than some other trashy Bollywood films made in the recent past.

Slumdog was way overrated too. The transitions from childhood to adulthood were good and the mix and match of the game show and the past were also good. But nothing remarkable.

If we call these films remarkable and realistic, I seriously think we need to watch more cinema.

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Hold on a second people!

First of all both films are based on novels so just stop fighting over the story.

Q&A was pretty make-believe bordering on fantasy for most Indians from metropolitan areas at least. Slumdog is not at all tasteful for a majority of avid Indian film lovers. On the other hand, it's a delight for most foreigners. This, because it's how they see India on their visits (or just heard of). Poverty, slums and beggars at this scale strike them with utmost interest wherever they travel in India and more often than not these aren't folks who've seen anything like it before. They are right in their own perspective.
I met three Argentinians who said they did not like El Secreto de Sus Ojos and that their (all 3, mind you) favourite film was Slumdog Millionaire.

Now, clearly for Indian film afficionados, especially the younger generation who'd enthusiastically go for Kashyap's work and are waking up to alternate cinema after mainstream melodrama has been shoved down their throats since they first laid their eyes on the silver screen, Dev.D is and will remain their first full-blown taste of redemption. Slums and their inhabitants doesn't intrigue this section of the audience at all in comparison to someone who doesn't reside in the country.

The best part, like mentioned earlier in this post, is how Boyle and Kashyap helped each other with Slumdog and Dev.D respectively and have continually made public while filming their projects, the immense respect both hold for each other's works.

Isn't this what cinema is all about?

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Dev D is loosely based on one of the most popular Indian novels, Devdas. Hollywood fans shouldn't even bother to talk about reality! I would like to know how "real" movies such as Batman, Avengers, Superman, or any other Hollywood movie out there today are?

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