‘Devdas was journey of Dev to Das, Daasdev, the reverse’

Director Sudhir Mishra says that his upcoming film Daasdev follows a contrary path to the plot of the classic novel Devdas, as the character in his film instead of “going from Dev to Das, goes from Das to Dev”.

“I am making Daasdev; I’ve played around Devdas in it. If in the story of Devdas, you see the journey of Dev becoming a ‘das’ (slave/servant), then this is the journey from Das to Dev. My Devdas is not that much of a loser; he doesn’t get stuck in his difficulties but rather evolves out of it,” Mishra said at the event to promote Bihar as a potential destination for film shoots.

Daasdev stars Richa Chaddha, Aditi Rao Hydari and Rahul Bhat, of Ugly fame, in lead roles.

Mishra looks likely to deviate from the plot of the classic novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and the numerous films made on it. The protagonist Devdas, in the novel and films is from a wealthy family and educated abroad, but witnesses downfall in his life and eventually experiences death due to the stress caused by heartbreak in love and excessive consumption of alcohol.

The Hazaaron Khwaishien Aisi director also stated that the movie has filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in a small role. Incidentally, Anurag had also made a contemporary version of Devdas - Dev.D, which also didn’t exactly stay true to the plot of the novel.

Mishra’s last directorial work was Inkaar in 2013. The movie starred Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh.