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Deva movie review: Shahid Kapoor plays Dev Ambre, a hot-headed bull who is perpetually connected the boil.
Deva Movie Review & Rating: A clump of cops successful Mumbai way down the slayer of a chap officer, opening up respective cans of worms. That, much oregon less, was what the Roshhan Andrrews-directed Mumbai Police (2013), headlined by Prithviraj Sukumaran, was about.
Another clump of cops successful Mumbai bash the same, broadly, successful the 2025 ‘Deva’, besides by the aforesaid director. From what I retrieve of the original, determination look to beryllium respective scenes which are nonstop replicas, but for immoderate crushed champion known to themselves, the filmmakers person taken large pains to forestall themselves, arsenic good arsenic anyone else, dubbing the Shahid Kapoor starrer a remake.
Kapoor plays Dev Ambre, a hot-headed bull who is perpetually connected the boil. A drunk-on-power neta (Girish Kulkarni) who doesn’t abide by the rules? Wade into said neta’s goons, and outcry him down. A workfellow (Pavail Gulatie) who is being excessively brushed connected the politician? Give him a lecture connected bully cops who request to bash their duty. Female workfellow (Kubbra Sait) daring to archer him that she whitethorn cognize much astir a locality? Scoff astatine her.
Basically, Dev aka Deva comes disconnected arsenic a transverse betwixt Zanjeer’s Vijay — respective scenes person been helpfully changeable against a Mumbai partition with Amitabh Bachchan’s visage plastered crossed it — and Dirty Harry, with a vigorous creation series involving a fig of crotch thrusts thrown in, arsenic a differentiator.
Kapoor’s close-shaved caput successful this 1 whitethorn punctual you of his quality successful ‘Haider’, which was his past striking performance. He adds successful a cocked-to-a-side head, collar unfastened capable to amusement disconnected concatenation against buffed, gleaming chest, dangling cigarettes, and a slo-mo stride to match.
The look is simply a bully acceptable for a badass movie cop. But Shahid Kapoor cannot get past that, getting stuck successful a flat, stylised delivery, for the astir part. Naming a movie aft a titular quality skews the script: everything flows from leader Shahid Kapoor’s actions and reactions, whereas a ‘Mumbai Police’ keeps our attraction connected everyone successful it, adjacent if Sukumaran is intelligibly successful the lead.
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Leading woman Pooja Hegde, who returns to the surface aft a gap, leaves an interaction successful her little role. Less can, much often than not, beryllium more.
There are astatine slightest a mates of instances erstwhile Shahid Kapoor does travel alive, reminding america of the histrion that helium tin be. Both are scenes successful which helium allows his quality to beryllium vulnerable, and you privation determination were much of these, alternatively than the escaped threads and the agelong slack-blah stretches which marque you consciousness each infinitesimal of its astir two-and-a-half hr length.
Deva movie cast: Shahid Kapoor, Pooja Hegde, Pavail Gulatie, Pravessh Rana, Girish Kulkarni, Kubbra Sait
Deva movie director: Rosshan Andrrews
Deva movie rating: 1.5 stars
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