Movie Review Love Sex aur Dhokha

Movie: Love Sex aur Dhokha

Starring: Anshuman Jha, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Amit Sial, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri

Director: Dibakar Bannerjee

Rating: ****

So you thought this is another sex and skin revealing movie! Don’t let voyeurism mislead you into believing that Love Sex aur Dhokha is a cheap gimmickry to titillate your senses. The film is bold, bare, intense, stark and dark but the storytelling is so superlative that it stimulates your senses.

The narrative has three different subplots. The first narrative has a final year college student Rahul (Anshuman Jha) who is gearing up for his diploma film which ends up being a shady spoof on DDLJ. During the shoot, he falls in love with the heroine (Shruti) with whom he elopes and gets married. The second narrative has a tech-savvy store manager Adarsh (Raj Kumar Yadav) who tries to woo the store salesgirl Rashmi (Neha Chauhan) to secretly film her in a sexual act on the store security camera. The third narrative talks about a journalist Prabhat (Amit Sial) who rescues a girl Mrignaina (Arya Devdutta) from her suicide attempt and subsequently prepares her for a sting operation against the country’s top pop star Loki Local (Herry Tangri).

The first story starts on a comical note with a satirical shade and just when you think the entire episode is frivolous, it ends and hits so hard on your senses that you might not want to gulp down anything in the interval. The second story talks about the entire modus operandi and motivation behind the making of a sex clip. The third narrative highlights the regular casting couch syndrome in glamour world along with the equally unethical sting operations devised by the manipulative media channels.

Each episode is derived from sensational headlines of national dailies and is well-sketched. The correlation of each subplot with the other is what needs to be applauded here. The screenplay by Dibakar Bannerjee and Kanu Behl is like a jigsaw puzzle where your excitement rises the more you get close to assembling the interlocking pieces as the final picture becomes clearer at every step.

Think twice before tagging Love Sex aur Dhokha as experimental, offbeat, path-breaking or low-budget. It has a smart story and superlative storytelling which makes it brilliant and an entertaining film.