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Mar 19, 2010 · LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha: Directed by Dibakar Banerjee. With Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao. A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Dibakar Banerjee
- 2010-03-19
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Love
Rahul, a young amateur film director in his early 20s decides to make a small-budget film for the diploma of his film course. He conducts an audition and meets Shruti, a young girl whom he chooses for the leading role. Shruti belongs to an orthodox family and her father is a real estate magnate. The two bond and become closer, but Shruti's overprotective, aggressive brother overhears their telephone conversation and attacks the film set to find out the identity of the caller. Shruti tells Rah...
Sex
Shruti's friend Rashmi is a quiet woman who works night shifts in a supermarket to support her family. Adarsh, a supermarket supervisor, has obtained his job by using his family connections with the store's owner and has debts with loan sharks. He makes a pact with a friend to make a sex tapewith one of the employees to sell to the media for a large sum of money; Adarsh chooses Rashmi, for whom he develops genuine feelings. He decides to back out of the plan but his feelings for Rashmi are su...
Dhokha
Prabhat, an investigative reporter, is desperate for a sensational story so he will be paid a bonus by the news company that employs him. He saves the life of aspiring dancer Naina, who tries to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. Naina is initially furious at Prabhat but plans a sting operation with him to take revenge on Loki Local, a music producer and singer who asked her to trade sex for the position of a leading dancer in his upcoming music video. Prabhat and Naina take the sting f...
Development
Director Dibakar Banerjee said several real-life sex scandals, including the DPS MMS scandal, inspired him to make Love Sex Aur Dhokha because he "wanted to do something on what led to that incident". He co-wrote two short stories with Kanu Behl, which they later expanded into three. According to Banerjee, he found some sex tapes "hilarious" because "those people, while having sex were also struggling with the camera, the ergonomics of how to shoot while having sex". He wrote a two-page story...
Casting
Banerjee and his team decided to cast newcomers and unknown professional actors. The cast consisted of actors including Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao, Anshuman Jha, Nushrat Bharucha and Amit Sial. The casting director of the film was Atul Mongia, who also acted in it. Neha Chauhan was cast after Banerjee saw her in her brother's wedding video; Chauhan wanted to assist Banerjee but he chose her for the role of Rashmi. Mongia auditioned 15 people a day for three and a half months to cast the 75 c...
Filming
Love Sex aur Dhokha is the first Indian film to be shot in the digital format. It was made using guerrilla film-making techniques in locations in Mumbai by the director of photography Nikos Andritsakis. It was filmed with different cameras, including a handycam, an amateur film camera, night-vision cameras, a security camera, an underwater camera and a spy camera. The stories are told from the camera's point of view; Banerjee said, "It is almost as if the camera is a character and to do that...
The film's soundtrack album was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar and the lyrics were written by Dibakar Banerjee. The album rights were acquired by Sony Music and the soundtrack album was released on 8 March 2010. Vocals were performed by Khanwalkar, Kailash Kher, Nihira Joshi, Amey Date and Nagarjuna.Khanwalker was hired before the script was ready. H...
A 90-second trailer was to be released along with 3 Idiots in theatres across India; it was edited three times so it could be shown in 290 multiplex screens. The film was promoted with the tagline, "You're being watched". A promotional video of the film's title song was launched prior to the release. It was screened at the 2010 London Indian Film F...
Critical reception
Love Sex Aur Dhokha opened to mostly positive responses from critics. Rajeev Masand gave it 4 out of 5, stating it as "the most riveting Hindi film in recent memory" and called it "possibly the most important Hindi film since Satya and Dil Chahta Hai." Raja Sen called the film a "masterpiece", writing, "Bollywood has just grown up the only way it could, with Love, Sex and Dhokha." Sarita Tanwar of Mid-Day called it "season's best film" and a "must-watch". A review carried by The Indian Expres...
Box office
Love Sex Aur Dhokha was made on a production budget of ₹20 million (US$250,000). It grossed ₹42.5 million (US$530,000) in its opening weekend and ₹64.0 million (US$800,000) at the end of its first week. It opened well at multiplexes in metro cities, in Delhi and North India. The film grossed ₹97.8 million(US$1.2 million) by the end of its theatrical run, making it a profitable venture.
Awards
Namrata Rao and Pritam Das won the Best Editing and the Best Sound Design Award awards respectively at the 56th Filmfare Awards. Sneha Khanwalkar received the R. D. Burman Music Award. The film received the Best Film Award, while Banerjee received the Best Director Award at the 2011 Stardust Awardsin the searchlight category.
Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 (LSD 2) a sequel by Banerjee with a tagline of "Love in the Times of the Internet" is set to release in 2024.
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You can buy "LSD: Love, Sex aur Dhokha" on Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube online. Synopsis A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely linked tales.
Aug 28, 2018 · Love Sex Aur Dhokha (lit. Love, sex and betrayal; also known by the initialism LSD) is a 2010 Indian anthology drama film directed by Dibakar Banerjee, and written by Banerjee and Kanu...
