David (Hindi)

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5.0/10
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5.5/10
Release Date:
February 01, 2013

The story revolves around the lives of 3 Davids in 3 different parts of the world in 3 different eras.

1975 London- 30 year old David works for Iqbal Ghani, a dreaded Mafia don who controls the entire Asian community. He is a protege who is poised to take over the empire until a revelation which changes the course of his future.

1999 Mumbai- 19 year old David is a musician born into a family of devout Christians. A happy go lucky teenager who loses all semblance of his peaceful existence when his family gets dragged into a political issue.

2010 Goa – 40 year old David is a fisherman living in the small fishing village of Betul in Goa. He falls in love with the deaf and mute Roma- the only hitch is that she is engaged to be married to his best friend Peter in 10 days!

All 3 Davids are about to take a step which is going to change their lives forever.
3 Lives, 3 Destinies, connected by one name - 'David'

The story revolves around the lives of 3 Davids in 3 different parts of the world in 3 different eras. 1975 London- 30... Show More

Wogma

Editor   Feb 01, 2013 11:12  

David is a slick and classy struggle between right and wrong. If only all three stories had enough meat to make for a 2+ hour film. Only 1.5 of the 3 do.

The Pucca Critic

Editor   Feb 02, 2013 21:54  

Sometimes we just let the things go despite of our heavy ambitions, and believe that it was "God" who intervened in between to make it happen it that way. And in most of the cases, it's just the cause-effect theory taking place: some random events become reason for happening of the other. That's how two of the three stories in this film, the one of Londoner David (1975-1999) and the David in Mumbai (1999), find their connect. While the other David is in Goa, 2010.

Haricharan Pudipeddi

Feb 01, 2013 13:46  

David is food for thought. Bejoy Nambiar in his second directorial outing leaves his audiences with a thought – Sometimes wrong seems to be right. Circumstances might make wrong appear right but in fact, wrong can never be right.

To establish this philosophy, the director uses the life-stories of three men born in three different eras. How their otherwise individual and separate destinies get interwoven thanks to a series of political, romantic and religious turn of events forms the essence of this story of situations and characters.

Anshuman Bagla

Feb 01, 2013 14:24  

David is a very interesting movie about 3 characters of the same name in different era's and how an action in one era has a reaction onto the next one....

All the characters are vey layered and all of them going through a lot of intensity inside themselves...

This movie has to be felt and so the pacing is current although many viewers may feel it to be a drag....

Even the climax cannot be categorised as Happy or Sad...

But the satisfaction of watching such a movie is immense...

It is made up of moments which linger in mind after the movie...

Few of them which stand out such as ...

1) The Don's son burstout to David about his father loving him more than his son...

2) Or the scene where 1975 David asks his don..the truth about the relation he shared with his mother....

3) the scene where the flat broker explains the 1999's David about marketing of underwear..

4) the relationship the 2010 David shares with his friend Tabu, his deceased father, and his mother...

All in all it needs to be felt to be understood .....

VIVEK TIWARI