
Love Sex Aur Dhokha
- Director
- Dibakar Banerjee
- Studio
- Freshwater Films
- Release Date
- 18 March 2010
- Running Time
- 112 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹2.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹9.80 Cr
Review
Dibakar Banerjee's audacious take on urban decay and moral corruption arrives as a genuine breath of fresh air in Hindi cinema, one that refuses to soften its edges for mass appeal. The film operates as a deliberate experiment in storytelling, abandoning the comfortable tropes of mainstream Bollywood to present a raw, unsettling portrait of contemporary India through three interconnected narratives. Banerjee's directorial vision demonstrates remarkable command—the way he orchestrates tone, pacing, and visual language to reflect his characters' fractured worldviews shows a filmmaker unafraid to challenge both industry conventions and audience expectations. While the film's structural ambition occasionally stumbles, with pacing that can feel uneven and a narrative approach that some might perceive as self-indulgent, there's an undeniable courage in how it strips away glamour to expose uncomfortable truths.
What distinguishes this work from the usual claims of "differentness" in Hindi cinema is its genuine commitment to experimentation rather than mere marketing gimmickry. The writing, though occasionally inconsistent, carries an authenticity that feels revolutionary in a landscape dominated by formulaic storytelling. However, the film walks a precarious line between riveting cinema and exhausting provocation—it succeeds more often than it falters, but not without leaving some viewers feeling alienated by its refusal to provide easy catharsis or conventional narrative satisfact




