Cast: Anshuman Jha, Shruti, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri, Amit Sial
Rating: ***
Love Sex Aur Dhokha. When you have a title like that, there is bound to be curiosity. And when Dibakar Banerjee — with an impeccable record so far — is at the helm, interest levels go further up.
The promos have been intriguing, there has been a lot of talk about the film, and its title song is this year’s ‘Emosanal Atyaachaar’. What all these things lead to, basically, is a fair degree of expectations. Does Love, Sex Aur Dhokha, or its smart acronym LSD, meet its potential?
Before answering that, it is necessary to know why LSD is an important film — it’s raw, unflinching, and brutally real in its portrayal of ‘young India’; it breaks the formula in more ways than one: the filming technique is novel by Indian standards (seen recently in Paranormal Activity) and the screenplay is episodic; each story (by Urmi Juvekar) has been inspired by what may be called ‘newspaper headlines’.
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