Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
India • 2002 • 185 mins. • In Hindi
Operatic in every sense of the word, Bhansali’s adaptation of the legendary Bengali novel features dazzling sets and costumes, impossibly beautiful stars, and stunning musical numbers. When star-crossed childhood sweethearts (Shah Rukh Khan and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai) are wrenched apart by circumstance and harsh societal strictures, it sends them both into a tragic downward spiral. An opulent spectacle and a grand, sweeping eulogy to eternal love lost, “Devdas has a grandeur the old Hollywood moguls would have loved.”— Richard Corliss, Time Magazine.
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Read Richard Corliss’s full Time Magazine review
Genres: Musical, Drama, Romance, Bollywood
Appears in: From Bombay to Bollywood: 50 Years of Indian Cinema