Love Sex Aur Dhoka
By Jaya Rao
April 25, 2010
UM Rating: B
Quite frankly I did not expect this movie to be good, but I was really pleasantly surprised. LSD is broken out into three short stories that all take place in the same time frame.
The love story is about a rookie filmmaker falling in love with the heroine who auditions to be in his movie. This story is actually why I am giving this movie a B. The initial 25 minutes just were not told very well, and the attempt at humor was not funny. Once you get past 25 minutes, the movie starts getting better and interesting. In fact towards the end of this short story I was getting lost, and then the climax happened so fast that I had to rewind it and figure what I just missed. Although I did not like it until then, it ended so bold that I had to keep watching the next story.
The sex story is probably my favorite one. The plot was interesting as it was about two guys in the backroom of a desi grocery store and their drama. They notice two different girls on the surveillance cameras for the store--a pretty one that works through the day and an ordinary-looking one that works through the night. One of the two guys wants to earn money for himself by starring in a sex video with one of these girls, and this story is all about his attempts, the strategy, and the outcome. The execution of this story could have become vulgar very quickly, but it didn’t. The subject matter was handled well, and what he said to manipulate the women was fun to hear.
The dhoka story is about a wannabe item girl that was told she needs to sleep with a famous pop star in order to get her break in the item girl industry. She declined and a Russian woman who was willing to sleep with him took her place instead. To retaliate, she and a journalist orchestrate a sting operation to expose the pop star’s casting couch. The rest of this story is about this woman’s struggle between wanting to be fame and justice and the journalist’s struggle to do well at his job while he maintains his core values. This story was sort of weak, but it was still ok.
LSD has one song I like, and it is the title track. The rest of the songs were spoofs and not intended for serious listening. I liked the stories in this movie, but it was a rental. The entire movie is shot through an independent lens camera. It looks like the people who made the Blair Witch Project shot this movie in entirety, shaky hands and all. There was no eye candy that necessitates going to a theater to watch any of these stories, and it definitely broadcasts anything except mainstream.
Quite frankly I did not expect this movie to be good, but I was really pleasantly surprised. LSD is broken out into three short stories that all take place in the same time frame.
The love story is about a rookie filmmaker falling in love with the heroine who auditions to be in his movie. This story is actually why I am giving this movie a B. The initial 25 minutes just were not told very well, and the attempt at humor was not funny. Once you get past 25 minutes, the movie starts getting better and interesting. In fact towards the end of this short story I was getting lost, and then the climax happened so fast that I had to rewind it and figure what I just missed. Although I did not like it until then, it ended so bold that I had to keep watching the next story.
The sex story is probably my favorite one. The plot was interesting as it was about two guys in the backroom of a desi grocery store and their drama. They notice two different girls on the surveillance cameras for the store--a pretty one that works through the day and an ordinary-looking one that works through the night. One of the two guys wants to earn money for himself by starring in a sex video with one of these girls, and this story is all about his attempts, the strategy, and the outcome. The execution of this story could have become vulgar very quickly, but it didn’t. The subject matter was handled well, and what he said to manipulate the women was fun to hear.
The dhoka story is about a wannabe item girl that was told she needs to sleep with a famous pop star in order to get her break in the item girl industry. She declined and a Russian woman who was willing to sleep with him took her place instead. To retaliate, she and a journalist orchestrate a sting operation to expose the pop star’s casting couch. The rest of this story is about this woman’s struggle between wanting to be fame and justice and the journalist’s struggle to do well at his job while he maintains his core values. This story was sort of weak, but it was still ok.
LSD has one song I like, and it is the title track. The rest of the songs were spoofs and not intended for serious listening. I liked the stories in this movie, but it was a rental. The entire movie is shot through an independent lens camera. It looks like the people who made the Blair Witch Project shot this movie in entirety, shaky hands and all. There was no eye candy that necessitates going to a theater to watch any of these stories, and it definitely broadcasts anything except mainstream.