Books and Movies

In September 1900, a certain prolific Bengali author, by the name of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay pens down a great work of literature, Devdas (published 1917), the story of a heartbroken man who turns to a life of alcohol and self-destruction after not being allowed to marry his childhood sweetheart, Parvati "Paro". In 2002, Sanjay Leela Bhansali made a film off this novel, with the same name and the same title, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit, which was wildly popular, cementing itself forever in Hindi pop-culture, with Devdas becoming the term people call each other by. And then Abhay Deol read it.   This was perhaps one of the most important developments in the course of this story. Because over the next year, Abhay Deol spent his time trying to get people to help him make this movie; or, more accurately, the version of it he had come up with. Most filmmakers rejected his idea, saying it's too artsy and would never work. And then he met Anurag