The first question arose in mind when I heard that Dev D is based on Sharatchandra’s Devdas was why the film is titled as ‘Dev D’. Well if the director might have thought that the title would be creative enough to attract audience to the theatres, let me clarify, personally for me the only compulsion to watch Dev D was Anurag Kashyap being its director and not the title of the film.
But the ‘title mystery’ got solved once I watched the movie. Anurag’s protagonist ‘Dev’ doesn’t become ‘complete’ Devdas as in the end, he decides to lead his life in positive manner with the help of ‘Chanda’ (In the final scene Dev wears Chanda’s helmet for protection while driving and heads towards court to confess his misdeed).
Anurag’s Dev who almost treads the path of Sharatchandra’s Devdas, finally chooses not lead it further and evades himself from becoming the ‘Devdas, ’the classic tragic hero. Thus he remains just Dev D.
