DC : A butchered adaptation of Devadas/Bonnie&Clyde
Major takeaways Anirudh ensures that, at the very least, he stays true to the material, delivering a terrific musical score that breathes life into an otherwise lifeless film. Sanjana and Wamiqa Gabbi deliver performances that do exactly what they need to without overdoing them. Sadly, Lokesh remains stiff throughout, which looks particularly bad on screen, although the character sketch partly compensates for it. An adaptation of Devadas (the novel) and Bonnie and Clyde (the film) culminates in a messy action drama. DC is director Arun Matheswaran’s fourth action film, and yet he still manages to make an action film with almost no emotional connection to its characters. The film goes full guns blazing for reasons that appear to be rooted in social issues, but it never meaningfully addresses them. This has been a recurring problem in his films, from the Eelam backdrop in Rocky to the Naxalite backdrop in DC . Here, Das’s motivation is fundamentally personal, yet the film force...