Shahid
Kapoor
in
Deva.
The
word
on
the
street
is
that
Shahid
Kapoor’s
Deva
happens
to
be
a
remake
of
Rosshan
Andrews’
2013
Malayalam
movie,
Mumbai
Police.
If
Deva
is
indeed
a
remake
of
Mumbai
Police,
then
Shahid
may
be
playing
a
closeted
homosexual
police
officer
who
uses
his
hypermasculinity
as
a
camouflage.
Well,
the
makers
are
indulging
in
their
own
version
of
camouflaging.
Rosshan
Andrews
has
staunchly
denied
the
claim
of
his
Hindi
debut
being
a
remake
of
his
Malayalam
hit.
The
trailer,
which
shows
Shahid
in
the
role
a
super-macho
cop,
seems
to
do
its
best
to
hide
the
big
plot-twist.
Add
to
this
the
presence
of
Pooja
Hegde
as
some
sort
of
a
love
interest
and
the
disguise
seems
complete.
We’ll
have
to
wait
till
Friday
for
a
final
confirmation
on
this
one.
But
Sanjay-Bobby
(the
screenwriters
of
Mumbai
Police)
being
listed
as
the
screenwriters
of
Deva
as
well
the
striking
similarities
between
the
core
plots
of
the
two
movies
should
give
the
snooping
cinephile
some
clue.
