Costly to make, with sumptuous costumes and settings, Devdas is a beloved story that has already had the definitive version made in past years with Dilip Kumar. In spite of this, Devdas, with Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai is a classic movie. Aishwarya Rai is a delightful and then heartbroken Paro who does her best to make a life for herself after Devdas. Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) is unable to stand up for Paro against his parent's wishes and abandons her for a directionless life of loss and debauchery. In abandoning Paro, Devdas abandons himself. Devdas depicts a man's loss of self, his compromises, and his ineffectuality. Yet, in the end, he makes the grand gesture. The theme is loss and making the best of what we are allotted in our lives. Very sad, very heart-rending, very beautiful.
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