Director: Dibakar Banerjee
Cast: Swastika Mukherjee, Uorfi Javed (in a cameo) and others
Where: In cinemas near you
Rating: 1 star
A prolific filmmaker like Dibakar Banerjee, who somewhere changed the style of storytelling back in the late 2000s has completely transformed into a lost and confused director with his latest offering Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2. In the name of progressive and quirky cinema, Dibakar delivers an unbearable experience of community viewing. LSD2 is beyond torturous.
Dibakar’s film is divided into three chapters — Love/Like, Sex/Share and Dhokha/Download. In today’s day and age of social media, reality television and social awakening, where everyone is focused on scrolling through their phones, we have forgotten our real selves and this is what he is hammering onto. Dibakar, however, picks up these subjects thoughtfully but his execution has gone horribly wrong.
Known for making experimental films in the past, this time he has experimented with not only his own version of an intellect but also with audiences psyche. It is just impossible to sit through his film. LSD2 is one of those films that will bore you even while fast forwarding. Dibakar’s film has no head or tail from start to end. Gone are the days when reality TV was a thing, but its reality has a mirror in every household now. The cameos of Mouni Roy, Tusshar Kapoor, Sophie Choudry, and Anu Malik couldn’t even save the first chapter of the film.
Swastika Mukherjee and Uorfi Javed’s presence in the last chapter are highly passable. Dibakar clearly taps the Gen-Z with his film in the most unimpressive fashion possible. The film is way too lengthy, sloppy and deteriorates by each passing frame. Rarely comes a film whose interval point is a sigh of relief and LSD2 is one such film.
Dibakar’s attempt at making intelligent film fails miserably this time. Barring the last chapter that highlights the story of a social media influencer and how his life turns upside down with the misuse of AI (artificial intelligence), the rest two chapters are highly irrelevant especially in the times we are living in.
LGBTQIA+ community is well established and respected at least in our films, if not society yet, but what makes Dibakar to come out of his cocoon and make a film on their hanging issues?
LSD2 is a bad trip. Avoid the hangover!
