Devadasu

Devadasu – thank heavens – is not another gunky remake of Sharat Chandra Chatterjee's melodramatic opus. No theatrical scenes here, of a drunk swirling around with a bottle in a river. This Devadasu is spunky, gleefully superficial, and lets off crackles and bangs of humor as regularly and closely spaced as a giant string of Diwali ladis.

Ram plays Devadasu, a hot-blooded, humdinger of a Hyderabadi. He dwells in a slum, goes to a government college, and speaks dialogues that, like a long-drawn Taekwondo move, are tongue-twistingly complicated and pack a solid ....