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10 Years Ago, Dibakar Banerjee's Love Sex Aur Dhokha Showed Us The Dark Side Of Technology

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Saloni Singh
Saloni SinghUpdated on Nov 07, 2020, 14:17 IST

The movie was way ahead of its time. In 2010 when we were grooving to Band Bajaa, Baraat, Badmaash Company, Anjaana Anjaani, Dibakar Banerjee was making a movie on technolody that causes more problems than it solves. 

In 2020, during the lockdown, you might have enjoyed the Social Media Dilemma, but 10 years, LSD was our very own Netflix level cinema. 

Here's taking a look at how Love, Sex Aur Dhokha was a first of its kind in Bollywood.

 1. Three short stories eventually rolling into one 

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With OTT platforms coming in, you see how episodes take place. Some are connected with the previous one and some are not. Love Sex Aur Dhokha makes you feel that you are in a different and new story everytime until the very end when they actually show how the 'Love', 'Sex' and Dhoka were inter related all along. Now how many Bollywood movies have you seen completely taking you by surprise because of their twisted plot line.  

 2. A movie which had all shades of grey 

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 Just when you think you have cracked the storyline, it sends you to another mysterious plot. The movie is about the struggles people face on a day to day basis whether it's at work or in your personal life. There will be moments in the film which you may even relate to. You may not say it but you know it.   

3. It expresses all three emotions of a relationship - Love, Sex Aur Dhoka 

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 Every relationship goes through these three emotions but the way Dibakar Banerjee has projected the drama, it will leave you spellbound. It doesn't just show a couple's relationship but also two colleagues coming together or two people struggling to get work in Mumbai.  

 4. The entire movie was shot with different cameras including a handycam 

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 Did you know, that not only the film felt straight out of a Black Mirror episode but it was also shot like one. Most of the crew shot from digital cameras, an amateur film camera, night-vision cameras, a security camera, an underwater camera and a spy camera. As Banerjee had earlier said, the stories are from the camera point of view and they hold quite a significance.

 5. Real life stories brought online that hit us home 

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 These were real incidents that we heard during our growing up. It was inspired from various MMS scandals that took place way back in school, the sting operations that got many celebrities arrested and how CCTV cameras are not just meant for security reasons.

6. The brutal honour killing climax can still send shivers down your spine 

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 If you have seen the movie, you exactly know what we're talking about. And if you haven't, then you exactly know how honour killings work, except this one is too brutal and will leave you all unsettled. Boy and girl are in love, they get married and they are killed in the dead of the night in the most heinous way. The entire sequence of this scene was actually shot by the cast themselves. 

7. Dibakar shows life is far from a DDLJ story 

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 The first story of the film shows a middle class boy who is a big fan of DDLJ and Aditya Chopra. Infact, he has become a filmmaker only because his idol is one. But as DDLJ isa love story which has its dups and downs but comes to a happy ending, this one is far from happy. The girl's father in the film is shown as the new age Amrish Puri which also has severe repercussions. In real life, there is nothing as 'Ja Simran Ja, Jee Le Apni Zindagi'.  

8. It makes you aware of the hidden cameras that are watching you 

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Remember the time when people told us to check the trial rooms and hotel rooms before checking in because the incidents that happened in early 2000s when technology was still finding its way in our world was scary. And when you watch the movie all over again in 2020, it still makes sense to check those rooms and not use Snapchats too often for those nudfies. 

9. How else do you think #MeToo began 

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 Cameras - boon or bane! The camera that can give you fame can also get you to the streets. Remember the 2019 starrer Bombshell that showed how professional set up can be equally toxic especially for women. Well, it was showed in Love Sex Aur Dhokha way back in 2010. In the third story, we see a popular musician cum rapper sleeps with women on the pretext of promising them good work in his music videos. After being used multiple times, the girl ends up conductiong a sting operation on him.  

10. The songs describe the ugly truth of technology 

 The sound tracks are equally mind boggling. From Tu Gandi Achi Lagti Hai to I Can't Hold It Any Longer, Ekta Kapoor and Dibakar really went all out in showing the harsh reality. You may find the lyrics cras 

 11. A movie that needs to be seen 

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 Fascinating, riveting, gripping, and mind questioning and an important film that people need to watch. Also, it gave us some brilliant actors for life. Rajkummar Rao and Nushrat Bharucha are some of the finest actors we have today 

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