Devdas in Time's Top 10 movies
22 May 2012 4:57 AM GMT
Time magazine has ranked Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 film Devdas eighth among the 10 greatest movies of the millennium with WALL.E at the top and The Artist in the 10th spot. It described Shah Rukh Khan as an 'all-world charismatist' and Madhuri Dixit a 'a hot number who danced flamencos on men's libidos'.
'A year after Moulin Rouge! had its world premiere at Cannes, another visually intoxicating musical opened at the festival, introducing Bollywood dramas to the international culturati,' it said of the film starring Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Dixit.
'Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1901 novel inspired at least half a dozen film versions before this one — in its time, the priciest movie in Indian history (at about $10.6 million),' the magazine noted.
'The piece is played with such commitment that the tritest plot twists seem worth believing — and dancing to, in nine nifty production numbers. But the fervid emotion is what makes the thing sing,' it said.
'Beyond that, Devdas is a visual ravishment, with sumptuous sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them; it has a grandeur the old Hollywood moguls would have loved,' Time gushes.
'A year after Moulin Rouge! had its world premiere at Cannes, another visually intoxicating musical opened at the festival, introducing Bollywood dramas to the international culturati,' it said of the film starring Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Dixit.
'Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1901 novel inspired at least half a dozen film versions before this one — in its time, the priciest movie in Indian history (at about $10.6 million),' the magazine noted.
'The piece is played with such commitment that the tritest plot twists seem worth believing — and dancing to, in nine nifty production numbers. But the fervid emotion is what makes the thing sing,' it said.
'Beyond that, Devdas is a visual ravishment, with sumptuous sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them; it has a grandeur the old Hollywood moguls would have loved,' Time gushes.
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