Dev.D is a 2009 Indian romance film released on 6 February 2009.Written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas.previously adapted for the screen by P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.Dev.D was embraced by the media, critics and public[citation needed]. The film is set content_summarized_desc=against contemporary Punjab and Delhi, where familial ties are negotiated by the traditions of patriarchy and marriages are reduced to a game of power and “honour“.