Daas Dev (UA) is a love story adapted from Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s Devdas and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Dev Pratap Chauhan (Rahul Bhat) hails from a family of politicians but he is not interested in politics. He is heavily in debts after his father, Vishambhar Pratap Chauhan’s (Anurag Kashyap) untimely demise years ago, even while he was a kid. Dev’s uncle, Awadesh Pratap Chauhan (Saurabh Shukla), is a shrewd politician. Not only does he care for his widowed sister-in-law, Sushila Devi (Sohaila Kapur), but also has physical relations with her. He is keen that Dev enters politics.

Dev loves his childhood friend, Paro (Richa Chadda). Chandni Mehra (Aditi Rao Hydari) is a fixer who sleeps around with politicians to get work done. She loves Dev although she is aware that he would never be hers. Paro has two more men salivating for her – politician Ramashray Shukla (Vipin Sharma) and Milan Shukla (Vineet Kumar Singh).

Dev is forced to throw his hat into the political ring when uncle Awadesh Pratap Chauhan is hospitalised. As the political game gets murkier, Paro’s father, Naval Singh (Anil George), is jailed for a crime which he hasn’t committed. Paro and her mother (Ekavali Khanna) plead before the Chauhan family but are unable to secure Naval Singh’s freedom. Rather, Naval Singh dies in jail. That’s the last straw on the camel’s back. A dejected Paro walks out on Dev despite being madly in love with him. Paro agrees to marry the widowed Ramashray Shukla. After Paro’s wedding with Ramashray Shukla, the political game becomes dirtier. Skeletons come tumbling out of different cupboards, leaving Dev as flabbergasted as Paro. It soon emerges that power corrupts and that there’s no room for principles in politics.