|  Dev
Movie Review :
Joint commissioner of Police Dev Pratap Singh(Amitabh
Bachchan) is a proud, weathered police officer, and
Special commissioner Tejinder Khosla(Om Puri) is the
balancing force between the political interests of Chief
Minister Bhandarker(Amrish Puri) and Dev's commitment
to the law.
The story is the tale of these two men and their bond
of friendship, which sees a change in tide because of
the people and the circumstances around them, where
Farhaan(Fardeen Khan) emerges as a wedge driving them
apart.
Farhaan is an unemployed
law graduate who is the childhood sweetheart of Aalia(Kareena
Kapoor), a charming romantic person who is the ray of
light in Farhaan's life. But Aaliya and Farhaan soon
get caught in extraordinary circumstances that transform
their lives. The story unfolds against the vitiated
backdrop of present times where innocent lives become
fodder for political expediency.
Farhaan's father, Ali
Saheb's violent death leaves him emotionally orphaned,
because he was a man who had brought Farhaan up with
ideas of patriotism and non-violence, but now cynicism
and hatred slowly starts taking roots in the young man's
heart. The spark of violence unknowingly set off by
Farhaan under the aegis of Latif(Eshaan Khan), a cunning
and ambitious politico, engulfs the whole city. And
Dev finds himself pitted aginst all odds in maintaining
the peace in a disturbed world where no one is willing
to see reason, plunging all in a sea of violence.
Tej trangresses beyond
the boundaries of law in his passion to crime, because
of which Dev is faced with the spectre of the tragic
human cost, and an ethical pressure to face.
Dev and Tej are set
on a path of dramatic collision, but ironically, Dev
and Farhaan's fates get irreversibly linked...two soldiers
whose allegiances were to different causes, but the
admiration for each other's courage and integrity brings
them together. Dev is thus the bold tale of circumstances
that arise when stakes rise beyond self-interest...and
when a fearless voice makes it its business to be heard.
It is the story of what makes Dev Pratap Singh walk
the razor's edge.
( Courtesy: Nowrunning.com) |
