10 love lessons to draw from the Dev D director's films

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Happy Birthday Anurag Kashyap: 10 love lessons to draw from the Dev D director's films

Women call the shots while men wig out in the world of Anurag Kashyap. On occasion of the director's 47th birthday, here are ten love lessons to draw from his esteemed filmography.

Team CE

Updated:11th Sep, 2019 at 6:28 PM

Unrequited love is the food and drink of Hindi movies. Yet, in Paanch, it’s a running joke. Pondi is a loser who tries hopelessly to get with the hard-bitten Shiuli splits with the film’s loot.

Lesson: A fool in love is just that.

Freshman Dileep is sucked into a bloodied world of politics and greed in Gulaal. The film puts a fresh spin on the cinematic love triangle, one where women call the shots and make the decisive choices

Lesson: To be blinded in love is to be blinded all the same.

He washes his clothes. He then shows him his place. Paro in Dev D knows how to suit herself. Chanda does too — her acceptance of Dev comes after the realization that he's the slut, not her.

Lesson: Liquor stores are all right, but momo kiosks save the day.

Faizal Khan might casually lay his enemies to death, but he ain’t laying a finger on Mohsina without permission. In Gangs of Wasseypur II, she even sends him packing for dropping by in an odd hour.

Lesson: Consent and permission, both are important.

At the bleak centre of Ugly resides the unresolved romantic rivalry between Rahul and Shomik. They both fell for the same girl in college, and — despite their differences — treat her the same.

Lesson: Love is not a badge of honour.

Johnny Balraj, a gangster-prizefighter, fibs about wanting to be a ‘big shot’. Yet, when the moment arrives, he gives it all up for Rosy, shriveling in her arms in the otherworld of ‘60s Bombay.

Lesson: to love is to be vulnerable.

Ramanna to Raghavan in Raman Raghav 2.0: “When I committed the first murder, I saw you. It was love at first sight. I knew you are one who would give me salvation, while you were looking for salvation

(contd) in women.. Lesson (to paraphrase Heath Ledger’s Joker): there’s always someone to complete us.

In Lust Stories, Radhika Apte plays an obsessive college professor who sleeps with — and stalks — one of her students. The film’s darkly comic tone is attuned to the eccentricities of modern love, its

(contd) hazards and negotiations. The neurosis gets unbearable after a while. Lesson: desire is a battle of nerves.

Manmarziyaan is Jules and Jim from Catherine’s perspective. Taapsee Pannu plays the irrepressible Rumi, a woman who wears her indecision with pride and celebrates it.

(contd) Caught up in her storm, it’s the men who are forced to grow and evolve around her, instead of being rewarded for their plight. Lesson: to love is to let go.

Sacred Games season 1: “For Bachchan to live… Parveen Babi must die.” Kubra Seth’s Kukoo lends a fatal effervescence to the guns and gangsters world of Sacred Games.

(Contd) When she dies, something breaks instead Gaitonde — and he goes ahead and declares him God. Lesson: love is sacrifice.

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