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Devdas (2002)

★ 7.5 · 377 ratings on TMDB

A grand saga of timeless love.

Devdas poster★ 7.5

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

DirectorSanjay Leela Bhansali
CastAishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ananya Khare, Dina Pathak, Jackie Shroff, Kirron Kher, Madhuri Dixit
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Devdas keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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