Did you know Abhay Deol's version of Dev D had a different ending?

Abhay Deol has done numerous films in his career out of which many are highly rated on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. However, actor is still regarded highly for his performance in Dev D which became a cult film. Counted among art films, filmmakers were credited for having broken many stereotypes of Hindi cinema. 

Dev D brought Kalki Koechlin and Mahie Gill to film industry in lead roles and reaffirmed faith of filmmakers in art films. movie boldly took a step and experimented by contemporising Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali vel Devdas.

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Abhay Deol's version of Dev D had a different ending

Abhay Deol has posted an interesting series of posts with hashtag 'making what Bollywood wouldnt' (#makingwhatbollywouldnt) in which he shares with his fans interesting facts about movies he has done. actor took to his social media handle and shared how he had spent a year narrating script of Dev D when finally Anurag Kashyap accepted idea and presented it beautifully on screen. However, Abhay Deol also revealed that his version of film had a different ending.

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Spoiler alert: article contains spoilers and has revealed most of plot of film ahead

Dev D plot as we kw it today

Dev D revolves around a young man, Dev, who loses his mind after he lets go of his childhood love, Paro. After Paro gets married to ar man, Dev realises his mistake and travels to her city, Delhi. Seeing her happy with her husband, Dev, who has a drinking problem starts taking or drugs as well.

To get Paro off his mind, he starts to spend time with Chanda, a strong-headed woman and eventually both Dev and Chanda fall in love with each or. However, Dev leaves her as well only to realise she is his true love. He comes back to see she is gone. By end of film, two unite and movie had a happy ending.

Abhay Deol’s was aware that Dev D was a 'risk'

In several interviews, Abhay Deol has admitted that he was aware that his idea of film involved risk and experimentation. Risk, as content was slightly explicit. And experiment would be to make a movie relying on performance of each actor, good cinematography, excellent direction as well as screenplay.

Abhay Deol’s version of film and charcaters

Abhay Deol in his Instagram post revealed that his idea for film was different from what people got to see. actor revealed that in his interpretation of characters, Dev was a chauvinist, misogynist, entitled and arrogant man. He explained that despite all bad qualities, idea of that man was romanticised for years. He furr wrote how female protagonists were strong and had integrity yet y were expected to love ir man matter what.

Abhay Deol wanted to change se two particular perceptions about characters. He wrote that he wanted to empower women and make m independent. He furr wrote that he wanted female leads to t be defined by man y love or men in general.

For Paro's character: Abhay Deol explained that this was reason why he felt Paro called out Dev’s faults and left him. She is portrayed as one who was happy with choice she made and was t weeping for a past lover. Neir did she fall weak in front of her husband or society.

For Dev’s character: Abhay Deol had envisioned Dev’s character to get shot by police when he becomes a drug dealer. Deol wrote in his post that Dev was supposed to die in front of Paro’s house, just like in book. Abhay Deol wanted to 'expose chauvinism and entitlement that Dev’s character is all about.' He wanted to portray that women had strength and Dev is one who was vulnerable, which is very common in paternalistic cultures.

For Chanda's character: Abhay Deol had a different vision for Chanda’s character as well. He felt that Chanda’s character was strongest of three. Abhay shared that in his version, Chanda would have empathised with Dev but would t have fallen in love with him. He furr said that Chanda would have taken pride in her profession as a high-class escort. Abhay Deol described Chanda’s character as "prostitute with heart of gold”.

ending of film: Though Abhay Deol wanted Dev to get shot by police and Chanda to t fall in love with Dev, Abhay Deol explained that director of film felt that a happy ending would make film more accepted by audience. filmmaker’s twist was to have Dev and Chanda fall in love while Abhay’s version was too dark. So Abhay went with flow and was glad about how everything turned out.

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Im Credits: Abhay Deol Instagram