Love Games

Love Games review :

The film starts and ends with the following couplet :

Roses are red, violets are blue Sex can be messy, love can be too.

After watching it right till the end, this is my own twisted take on that couplet :

Roses are red, violets are blue.

Love Games is trashy, It wont work for you.

Writer- director Vikram Bhatt takes you down the road of Page 3 socialites - high on drugs and low on morals. One such lady is Ramona Raichand (Patralekhaa Paul) who is having an extra marital with her coke snorting toy boy Sameer Saxena (newcomer Gaurav Arora). Sammy boy (as she calls him) has a penchant for slitting his wrists and visiting a psychiatrist (a pensive Rukhsar) for treatment. He also reluctantly agrees to awkward threesomes with random girls set up by Ramona.

Next, Ramona baby suggests "love games" to Sammy boy. "What's that?" he inquires. "Well, it ain't that complicated" she assures. It's basically the two of them hitting (separately) on fellow page 3 married couples as strangers; whoever gets to bed the opposite partner first is the winner and gets a weekly supply of coke (the drug, not the drink!!!) as a reward. The game begins and Sam wins round one.

Next, the two love gamers eye on the Asthana's. Alisha (Tara Alisha Berry) is a surgeon who operates her emergency patients wearing an apron over her micro minis. She's in to a physically abusive relationship with her lawyer hubby (some goddamn shrieking TV actor) and falls for Sammy boy who proclaims his undying love for her through a rather unmelodious song, applies some green lotion on her bruised bare back and finally beds her.

Expectedly, love strikes them both. Ramona laughs it off and suggests best of both worlds to Sammy dear. "Wahan classical piano, Yahan hard rock". Sam says no thank you. Ramona ain't happy. You arent with the film so far, either. Thank heavens, its interval time.

The second hour is all about more sex, deceit, blackmail, confession, counter blackmail and finally a murder. Yea, a kinky kinda murder where the killer plays candy crush on mobile after finishing off the victim.

On paper, the concept of swingers with a murder element thrown in, had potential to be a desi 'Basic Instinct' (1992). But Vikram Bhatt is no Paul Verhoeven nor does Patralekhaa possess the physical attributes of Sharon Stone to pull of the role of a psychotic swinger convincingly.

Tara Alisha Berry looks awkward in the kissing scenes though overall, she emotes better. Gaurav Arora needed a better launch. And we, as an audience, deserved a better erotic thriller...

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

Or found for that matter. Actually I would be surprised if you should even call this a love (or dare I say erotic?) thriller anyway. There is not much of that to be found here anyway. And the one scene where you see someone in their underwear - it is to show off a wound. So not really something that is meant to excited .... well not normally ... anyway, moving on.

Something you should do - like without stopping to watch this. Yes there are a few twists and turns - some aren't even half bad. But the cliches thrown at you - leading to those twists? Well they will make you cringe big time! There are some moments where the movie understands what it is and almost makes fun of itself ... I cherish those moments - rare as they may have been.

Overall this is a waste of time though ... yes drugs are bad, I don't think we needed a disclaimer at the front of the movie to remind us. Then again what do I know, right? I'd say I know ... what's love got to do with it: nothing!

The movie title is matched what they made. Though you should watch it in your precious time but if you wana time pass, this one is good for you. Everything is so obvious but executed a different way which i like. Though, the girl who play Alisha role was so sweet and good in acting. Guy is not so good but no so bad too. Go and grab this. Though if you expecting showing sex scenes then please watch po&& rather this. This is not that if you thought. Directer tired to be smart but he is not so, things are obvious but executed in different way is appreciable. So At the end if you wish to just spare some time being boring then go and watch this movie.

This film begins with a married woman by the name of "Ramona Raichand" (Patralekhaa Paul) being questioned by the police concerning her wealthy husband's recent death. Since there is no evidence linking her to his fall from his high-rise apartment, the matter is deemed an accident, and no charges are filed. The next scene involves a wealthy young man named "Sam Saxena" (Gaurav Arora) who, although he has everything a person could want, isn't happy and inflicts pain upon himself just to feel alive. Recognizing this, Ramona proposes that the two of them engage in an activity called "love games," where they seek out a happily married couple at a party and bet on who can seduce one of them first. At first, Sam accepts the challenge with great zeal, but that changes after a while when one of his targets, by the name of "Alisha Asthana" (Tara Alisha-Berry), becomes attracted to him. As it so happens, her husband, "Gaurov Asthana" (Hiten Tejwani), physically abuses her, and seeing her in pain afterward awakens a sense of compassion within Sam that he has never experienced before. The problem is that Ramona has no intention of allowing Sam to abandon their games and is willing to do whatever it takes for them to continue. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I wasn't expecting that much from this film and was pleasantly surprised by the good acting coupled with an interesting plot. Admittedly, I didn't care that much for some of the songs and would have preferred a bit more eroticism here and there, but all things considered, I enjoyed this film, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Its easy to trash erotic thrillers, very easy especially if vikram bhatt happens to be involved. While this is no cinematic masterpiece and those expecting one need to get themselves examined, it was a fun DVD watch, i wasn't bored for a second. Very good performances all round and a good night in.