Abhay
Deol
and
Kalki
Koechlin
starrer
Dev
D
is
a
cult
classic
which
is
remembered
even
today.
In
an
Instagram
post,
Abhay
recalled
how
the
film
was
made
by
getting
Anurag
Kashyap
on
board
as
its
director.
The
film
is
based
on
Sarat
Chandra
Chattopadhyay's
Bengali
novel,
Devdas.
Abhay
shared
how,
knowing
that
the
male
protagonist
was
a
chauvinist,
entitled
and
arrogant,
he
wanted
to
empower
the
women
in
the
story.
He
also
revealed
that
he
had
a
darker
ending
in
mind,
but
Anurag
thought
that
a
happy
ending
would
suit
the
audiences
better.
Abhay
wrote,
""Dev.D" released
in
2009."
He
continued,
"I
spent
a
year
narrating
the
idea
to
several
people
before
I
got
Anurag
on
board
to
direct
it.
I
remember
people's
reaction
upon
hearing
my
narration,
it
was
always,
"it's
too
much
of
an
art-film".
Lucky
for
me
Anurag
got
it."
Talking
about
the
book,
Abhay
wrote,
"I
had
read
the
book
and
I
could
see
that
the
character
was
a
chauvinist,
a
misogynist,
entitled,
and
arrogant.
Yet
he
had
been
romanticized
for
decades!
The
women
on
the
other
hand
were
strong
and
had
integrity,
but
there
was
still
that
expectation
for
them
to
love
their
man
no
matter
what.
I
wanted
to
change
that.
I
wanted
to
empower
them,
shed
the
image
of
the
"good,
devoted,
woman".
It
was
time
to
make
them
independent,
not
defined
by
the
man
they
love,
or
by
men
in
general.
Which
is
why
Paro
calls
out
Dev's
faults
and
puts
him
in
his
place."
He
continued,
"In
my
version
Dev
gets
shot
by
the
police
(he
becomes
a
drug
dealer)
outside
Paro's
house
and
dies
just
like
in
the
book.
Chanda
does
not
fall
in
love
with
him,
and
neither
is
she
ashamed
of
being
an
East
European
high
class
escort
(again,
in
my
version
😊).
She's
the
strongest
character
of
the
3,
and
isn't
afraid
of
being
judged.
She
does
empathize
with
Dev,
seeing
how
broken
he
is,
and
I
went
with
the
"prostitute
with
the
heart
of
gold"
theme
from
the
book."
Abhay
concluded,
"Anurag
felt
a
happy
ending
would
make
the
film
more
accepted
by
the
audience,
and
his
twist
was
to
have
Dev
&
Chanda
fall
in
love.
My
vision
was
too
dark!
I
went
with
the
flow,
and
even
brought
my
buddies
@twilightplayers
to
feature
in
it.
The
rest
is
history.
#makingwhatbollywouldnt
#dev.d"
In
a
recent
interview,
Anubhav
had
shared
that
it
had
been
difficult
to
work
with
Abhay
in
the
movie.
Dev
D
also
starred
Mahie
Gill.