Bold political ambitions, but a cluttered narrative leaves much unresolved.
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Critic consensus
Critical reception for Daas Dev is largely negative to mixed, with most reviewers finding the film's execution falling short of its ambitious premise. A few critics acknowledged the film's thematic engagement with democracy, power, and political cynicism as worthwhile, with one noting its effective capture of street-level pessimism. However, the predominant criticism is that the film fails to sustain engagement as a whole, with complaints about an overcrowded narrative, too many unresolved characters and plot points, and a predictable, unsatisfying conclusion. The consensus is that the film has lofty intentions but lacks the impact to realize them.
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Daas Dev, starring Rahul Bhat, Richa Chadda, Aditi Rao Hydari, Saurabh Shukla, Vineet Kumar Singh and Dalip Tahil among others, has lofty ambition but not enough impact: the film lives in moments, but droops as a whole.
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Daas Dev is meant to be a study of power and what happens to those who lust for it. It's a solid idea lost in execution.
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Sudhir Mishra is perhaps telling us that we are all politicians waiting for our chance at the podium and that it takes a real silly to see the absurdity of it all.
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The pacy pessimism of the picture effectively captures that of the street. Psychopaths on screen strongly mirror elected leaders, who've herded us together to where we are now, and where we're headed. What's in their head? This pic is one way to ponder over that. This cycle of democracy, violence continues unabated though. As it would. Play it again, sham!
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Daas Dev is more interested in telling us the story of power, than the story of ishq...
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While the film boasts of decent production values, overall it fails to engross you.
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Nothing more than a brave attempt...
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With all the bad cards played - backstabbing, lies and mudslinging - Daas Dev drags on to a predictable end. The shades of Mishra's last great film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi are evident in the climax but this film is no match.
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Mishra seems content to let this mediocrity play out, cluttering his story with too many characters and plot points, none of which is satisfactorily resolved. The result is that "Daas Dev" ends up on the opposite spectrum of its original inspirations.
Credits
Rahul BhatDev Pratap Chauhan
Aditi Rao HydariChandani
Saurabh Shukla
Vipin Sharma
Anurag Kashyap
Richa ChadhaParo
Dilip Tahil
Dalip Tahil
Vineet Kumar Singh
Deepraj Rana
Anil George
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