March 21, 2010 Y. Sunita Chowdary
Cast: Anshuman Jha, Shruti, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri, Amit Sial and others.
Banner: ALT Entertainment.
Cinematography: Nikos Andritsakis.
Editing: Namrata Rao.
Music: Sneha Khanwalkar.
Screenplay: Dibakar Banerjee, Kanu Behl.
Sound Design: Pritam Das.
Producer: Priya Sreedharan.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee.
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Love Sex Aur Dhokha is not an entertaining film, nevertheless it has it's element of honesty and there are quite a few factors that make it different. One the cast is entirely new and you simply can't get judgemental about them, they are very original in their looks and performance, next you don't remember watching the three stories elsewhere or having been inspired from some movie. It is that honest and bare.
LSD is a two hour video footage, it is someone holding the camera and shooting three episodes straight out of somebody's life. The title is justified because each of these stories have a little bit of love, sex and betrayal but the novelty of shooting it on a video cam wears off after some time, gets irritating as the camera's awkward and not so stable movements..could be deliberate to create authenticity.
The first story has a youth doing a diploma in films, he tries to shoot a movie in a richie rich man's home and in the process falls in love with her. They do face opposition but eventually they marry. While the butchering scene hits you like a tonne of bricks (it is looong, dark and sickening as if they are breaking in into a log of wood), and the spoof on a filmi hero is hilarious..his laughs, dances, moon walking scenes and echoing dialogues.
The heroine's father's one liners fail to amuse you..he dropping names, saying that SRK uses the same marble tiles he has in his home sounds very silly. That part of the episode looks worse than a TV serial. The screenplay is interesting with each of the characters in the three stories interconnecting the other, the ending could have been slightly better or probably better handled.
The second story of a man seducing the employee..the salesgirl and deceiving her is the best of the three. The man is absolutely wonderful in his work, he is so natural, his anger and frustration is so believable. The third part is a sting operation to nab a pop singer who cheats women, seeks sexual favours and promises them a career. You get a peek into the double standards of media people.
Those who have been watching routine formula movies, this will appear fresh and frothy but for those who expected titillation, lot of voyeurism that went with the title they are bound to be disappointed. The word sex is just an elemental truth in the film, or probably we could call it a publicity gimmick to pull people to the theatres. But why do that Dibakar when you had made a really different film?
Finally Love Sex Aur Dhokha is not a film that you have to rush in a tearing hurry to see it. Watch it when ever you have time, the dialogues some of them could have been edited, they are purely disgusting..shows that people are getting used to obscenity in words and deeds.
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