Release Date: 08 Nov 2007 br Genre: Action - Drama br Language: Telugu br Director: Hari br Producer: Shakamuri Panduranga Rao br Cast: Surya Sivakumar br Asin Thottumkal br More: Deva Cast & Crew br br story: br The credits of Deva do not take themselves seriously. After flashing the names of Surya, Asin and Vadivelu, the screen just says "and your favorite stars". It almost sounds like what might be on this one's epitaph: "Please move on to the next tombstone." br br Indeed, the makers of this one know its exact place in Telugu film chronology - in the annexures. Like one last papad fried just to make use of oil that is still hot enough much after the gas has been turned off, the Telugu market is just to squeeze the last drops of cash out of the movie. And we should treat it that way in the review too - almost anything is too much detail. But since we at fullhyd.com are too professional, we'll lose sight of the bigger picture and thrash this out. br br Deva is the dubbed version of the Tamil "Vel". And the problem really starts there - you dub a movie into another language if it is significantly different from what people of that tongue are used to seeing, and thereby offsets the disadvantages of an unrecognizable starcast and alien customs. Which is why Chandramukhi, Ghajini and Aparichitudu were hits - arguably the only real big hits in dubbed films, if you ignore Sivaji which was superbudget, superstar and superhype.