Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Spondonman One of my favourite films from the Indian cinema, the story beautifully adapted and assembled by Bimal Roy and his expert studio. It hasn't got the colour, scope and audio/visual technical panache of the 2002 version, but more importantly to me has better framing, acting, music and above all else, atmosphere.Today's highly paid film critics in all media would probably ignore Devdas and other similar musical films as being populist and therefore unworthy of their high-brow attention. Well, it's their loss! What we have is an extremely well crafted film, complemented with S.D. Burman's scintillating music woven perfectly into the plot. Not that it matters, the first time I watched Devdas in the mid '90's I thought that Vyjayanthimala as the prostitute Chandramukhi bore an uncanny resemblance to Kate Winslet! Dilip Kumar's finest screen moments bar Mughal-E-Azam are here too, and although he didn't have a whole range of emotions to portray his performance was intense and utterly believable. Don't let supposedly erudite Western sneering put you off all Indian or Bollywood films and rub your nose in the baking mud with Pather Panchali - this one is also a world classic.To watch this epic of thwarted and then forbidden love and one man's inner turmoil brought on first by social custom and then the bottle is always ultimately rewarding to me, but be warned - the long journey is poetically, relentlessly and devastatingly depressing.

maple-2 Like "Gone With The Wind" and Wuthering Heights, Devdas is based on a literary classic and is a landmark in cinema. Pre-independence Bengal and Calcutta come alive in this movie but it is not a pretty picture. The story itself verges on bathos, with a young man, Devdas (Kumar), drinking himself to death after his childhood chum and beloved Paro (Sen) marries another (older) wealthy man. That marriage happens only because Devdas' wealthy father and older brother refused to allow him to marry Paro, the middle caste girl next door. The pain is, she loves Devdas too, but cannot act on it.The parallel story has Chandramukhi (Vyjayanthimala), a dancer & call girl from Calcutta, falling in love with Devdas as well while he is drinking away his sorrows. But he is so focused on Paro and so negatively judges Chandramukhi's profession, he cannot notice her. When Devdas finally appreciates Chandramukhi's devotion, for her own safety he dare not take her home.This is a sorrowful classic, but with the overwrought pain, it plays more like "Wuthering Heights" than like "Gone With the Wind".

mohsin ali khan I have seen this movie and no doubt it is a master piece of Dilip Kumar's acting. The respect for him in both co-stars really impressed me.I think no one can act like as he has done in that film in this kind of script.I have heard that Shahrukh Khan is also playing a role of Devdas in Sanjay Leela's new movie but I do not think he can act so well. Dilip Kumar got the Film Fare Award of Best Actor for year 1955. The script of this movie was very sad and I have never seen this type of script in any other movie. The script was actually taken from a novel. I have given 10 marks to this movie. The acting of other cast was also very impressive. The music was also excellent.

kapu s prabhakara Saratchandra Chatterji's novel under the brilliant direction of Bimal Roy becomes india's finest cinema of all times.Equally brilliant is Hrishikesh Mukherji's editing. Dilip Kumar and Suchitra Sen take film acting to new heights in their portrayal of Devdas and Paro.