After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee (Shah Rukh Khan)'s life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.Clearly I will never understand Indian cinema. I have seen more than handful now, and they strike me as melodramatic, too focused on singing and dancing, too colorful and far too long. Why they seem so childish compared to just about every other country's films, who knows? "Devdas" has plenty to like about it if you happen to be into Indian film. But I am not, so all those great things just make me scratch my head.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali who made fabulous movies like Khamoshi and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam gas made "this"!??? Was he out of his mind? Well what to say about the acting.... Hard-core overacting, too much "Shahi" behavior... SRK as Devdas can be ones worst nightmare... Ash as Paro is just irritating! Only Madhuri as Chandramukhi does a bearable job. With a running time of 185 minutes is just a pain... Mediocre songs like Kahe Chhed Mohe, Maar Dala, Chhalak Chhalak, Morey Piys have no use in the film but just to make it longer.. Everything in this film seems loud, irritating and over-the-top. Lavish sets and Promotions are the main ingredients of a "Hit" movie and that's all in Devdas. I remember my friend telling me that he slept within the first 10 minutes of the movie and got up at the intermission. I don't recommended this movie... Its awful

Devdas is an amazing movie and one of Bollywood's best! It released in 2002 after which the movies of the time as well as actors, directors and writers began making better quality films in an attempt to be up to par with this one! If you don't speak Hindi, I suggest you still watch this movie with English subtitles, as from the first frame to the last it is very entertaining and keeps you with the film at all times. The colors, acting, storytelling are all brilliantly done and it truly is a love story to be remembered. The songs are very catchy and Madhuri Dixit and Ashwariya Rai are Bollywood's biggest actresses and both looked the absolute best in this film than any other they have done. Shahrukh Khan too is brilliant as the lover who lost.This movie Definitely, Definitely is a keeper that one would want to buy on DVD to keep in their collections and EVERYONE I know has watched the whole film/certain part of it repeatedly!

That is true. Bollywood films do base a lot of their ideas off of Hollywood movies, down to the point of plagirism (they even have used recent movies, such as Hitch, for material as well), but Devdas is not one of these cases. Counting this version, it's been remade three times. I know one time was in the 1930s, and in the 1950s, and in theatrical adaptations It is a Bengali novella by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay written in 1917. Sorry, but it was a good thought anyway. Just so you know, I got the information off of wikipedia, from the article concerning the movie, and it is not made up data by any means. There have also been several television adaptations. Devdas is a Bengali story, and a famous one at that. As the author of the article said, "The novella powerfully depicts the prevailing societal customs in Bengal in the early 1900s, which are largely responsible for preventing the happy ending of a genuine love story." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devdas