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Spoiler-free premise
After rejecting childhood love Paro, wealthy Dev spirals through Delhi while forming a complicated bond with sex worker Chanda.
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Dev returns from London to Punjab and misreads childhood love Paro through jealousy and rumor, driving her toward another marriage. In Delhi, his self-destruction intersects with Leni, now called Chanda, who has rebuilt herself after public scandal.
Why it belongs
Anurag Kashyap splits screens, contemporary music, addiction, and women granted far more agency than Dev expects.
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Mahie Gill and Kalki Koechlin refuse to orbit him passively. Handheld nightlife, colored filters, text messages, tabloid images, Amit Trivedi's genre-shifting songs, and fragmented intoxication make Dev's collapse subjectively vivid.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Good for
Date Night
Descriptive guidance derived from rating, genre, runtime, mood, and GCML scores.
Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score
Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness8.2
Engagement9.1
Ease8.6
Hindi · Not Rated Narrative Feature Mood: Funny & Bittersweet
