Prince Pictures produce DEV that has Karthi playing the lead and is written and directed by Rajath Ravishankar.
Honestly, Dev starts off lazily without any purpose and stays faithfully lazy for the entire duration despite being bandied as an adventure film. There is nothing exciting or interesting in the film’s story and the “soft” screenplay puts the viewer to snooze. Half an hour into the film you know where this film is heading and you don’t even have to wait for the break to head to the exit. There are some action scenes that the writer remembers to “construct” to make the hero happy. The comedy is as flat as the script.
Karthi can do little to save this nosediving script and he does nothing to help it stay afloat. Rakul Preet walks in tall pants, dismissing people around her. RJ Vignesh is an eye and ear sore right from the first scene and the more he is on screen the more you hang your head down. The rest of the cast have fewer scenes than the automobiles in the film.
It is Velraj’s cinematography that makes the film bearable to watch. Harris Jayaraj’s background score is ineffective more so because of the lackluster drama on screen while his “blatantly inspired” songs do not register at all. Dialogues are average and Ruben has little to work on the editing table. Direction by Rajath is bland.
DEV has literally nothing going for it, like the relief on Karthi’s face after he aces the Everest, there is relief in the theatre while the end credits pop up.
DEV – THEVE ILLE !!
1.75/5
B.U.Shreesha
