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1 Bulgarian Lev = 0.9943 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Canadian Dollar = 1.2807 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

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1 Mexican Peso = 0.0758 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Brazilian Real = 0.3132 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 0.4887 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0096 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.014 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0001 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

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This new film is the latest remake of Devdas, but what is equally interesting is the fact that it is in conversation with films made in the West. Unlike Bhansali’s more spectacular version of the older story, Anurag Kashyap’s Dev.D is a genuine rewriting of Sarat Chandra’s novel. Kashyap doesn’t flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral, but he also gives women their own strength. He has set out to right a wrong—or, at least, tell a more realistic, even redemptive, story. If these characters have lost some of the affective depth of the original creations, they have also gained the hard edges of modern lives.

We don’t always feel the pain of Kashyap’s characters, but we are able to more readily recognize them. Take Chandramukhi, or Chanda, who is a school-girl humiliated by the MMS sex-scandal. Her father, protective and patriarchal, says that he has seen the tape and thinks she knew what she was doing. “How could you watch it?” the girl asks angrily. And then, “Did you get off on it?” When was the last time a father was asked such a question on the Hindi screen? With its frankness toward sex and masturbation, Dev.D takes a huge step toward honesty. In fact, more than the obvious tributes to Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, or the over-extended psychedelic adventure on screen, in fact, as much as the moody style of film-making, the candour of such questions make Dev.D a film that is truly a part of world cinema.

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