"was met with critical acclaim, but suffered heavily because of the timing of its release, a day after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, leading to widespread fear of crowded places.Deol's breakthrough role came in 2009 when he portrayed the titular character in Anurag Kashyap's 2009 neo-noir film "Dev.D", a modern-day adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali romance novel "Devdas".