Shahid’s
heft
is
the
only
thing
that
keeps
up
the
momentum
in
a
mediocre
rehash,
dumbed
down
by
flimsy
motive
and
mindless
bravado,
sighs
Sukanya
Verma.
Just
when
you
thought
Shahid
Kapoor’s
appetite
for
rowdy,
reckless
characters
had
its
fill
in
Kabir
Singh,
Rosshan
Andrrews
casts
him
as
a
boorish
cop
in
and
as
Deva.
Left
with
no
memory
of
his
former
furious
self
after
a
road
accident,
he
tries
to
retrace
a
story
of
bromance
and
betrayal
that’s
integral
to
solving
the
case
he
was
about
to
lift
the
lid
on
until
that
ill-fated
moment.
Only
Deva,
a
remake
of
Andrrews’
2013
Malayalam
drama,
Mumbai
Police
with
a
Ship
of
Theseus
paradox,
undermines
the
moral
dilemma
of
the
original
and
the
irony
it
gives
rise
to
by
asserting
its
hypermasculinity
to
the
hilt.
There’s
almost
an
element
of
Shakespearean
tragedy
writers
Bobby-Sanjay
weave
into
this
police
procedural
governed
by
the
consequences
of
rash
actions,
something
Shahid
under
Vishal
Bhardwaj’s
skilled
eye
in
Haider
has
mastered
and
manifested
in
Udta
Punjab
and
Kabir
Singh.
Except
Deva‘s
Pushpa-fied
tone
doesn’t
have
time
to
brood
on
the
psychological
upheavals
as
it
brandishes
its
swaggering
action
by
the
numbers.
Shahid’s
heft
is
the
only
thing
that
keeps
up
the
momentum
in
a
mediocre
rehash,
dumbed
down
by
flimsy
motive
and
mindless
bravado.
Watch
out
for
the
full
review
in
just
a
bit!
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Review
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