Love, Sex & Dhokha - The serious Dhokha!

When the title of a movie is this, its bound to generate curiosity. The promos were good, exciting and pulled audience. Good reviews over the newspapers enhanced the same. Excited...I decided to watch the movie, especially when it was directed by the man who made Khosla ka Ghosla and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

The excitement however soon turned into disappointment. I found it difficult to sit in the theatre and watch the whole movie. It is aw, brutal and real but a drag inspite of being a movie of under 2 hours.

What makes it a failure?

The biggest draw back was the fact that the main plot or storyline or the script was weak. The raw brutality was presented in a manner which I would say is undoubtedly appreciable. But when the main plot fails, nothing else works (not even the good acting).

Connecting 3 stories into one also came up a few years back in a movie by the name "3 Deewarein" by Nagesh Kukoonoor. It was a classic movie though not very popular given the fact that it wasn't commercialised. Yet a movie from which every director can take an inspiration.

Back to LSD - What would have made the difference?

A much better plot was the basic need as already stated. A strong one essentially. The connectivity between the 3 stories did not have a big impact and thats why the try that the Director made to bring twists or create a new sense of excitement essentially failed. The connectivity was weak and not of much relevance.

The filming technique also fails. Similar to the style used in Blair Witch Project, the style doesn't work for me here. It merely added to the misery and created further disinterest.


We can just hope that a person of the quality of Dibakar Banerjee (The Director), comes back to his usual quality which has had an impeccable record before LSD...

I am back!

I a back after a long time. Finally changed job and have shifted to the land of opportunities - Mumbai. The lifestyle and work culture is so much different and so much better. I hope further opportunities open up for me and I can move ahead in life!

I thought it would be easy but it wasn't to be so. Its difficult to live alone suddenly especially when you've been dependent on family and friends till now. However, a month and a half already gone and I have finally been able to settle down and cope up with the new fast-paced lifestyle.

The first trip to Hyderabad

It was my first trip to Hyderabad last week. It's an amazing city, with great infrastructure and nice facilities. However, I found the streets and lanes pretty complicated and confusing!! It was really difficult to reach a given destination at any point in time!! Even the locals could not help much...

Then spent a day each in each of the client's sites - Tondur, Koyeguddam, Kottaguddam and Tuni. Now, these places are at the outskirts of Hyderabad. The locals spoke only Telugu...not Hindi...nor English! Luckily we sometimes had someone assisting us who could communicate in English or else we would have ordered for something and got something else!!!!

Food was great! Never knew that South Indian food can be something which is a lot different from the usual Idli/Dosa/Vada and yet be so good...

The Restaurant ISDA Thai was made with great thinking and designs. Each of articles or items used were imported from Thailand!! So can very well guess the cost that would have been associated with the same. The food was good and the DrInKs too...

Karachi Bakery is a famous place in Hyderabad for buying baked food and other stuffs. I had some great Liquor Chocolates...The chocolates were very tempting, but I avoided buying a whle lot of cake for myself!! Also got a few boxes of the most famous biscuits of Karachi Bakery - The Cherry & Almond ones!!