Not a Love Story

Its tight rope walking when the trailblazing headlines are to be the backbone of a movie. For starters no matter which side you decide to glorify, the rivals will mercilessly hound you with the sole objective of crucification. Not to mention, commercially that section of audience base does not translate into box-office collections, worse spread negative publicity. But if the media succeeds in getting it trapped in an imbroglio, you have hit the jackpot mate.

Ramgopal Varma orchestrates his story with great flair. Notably he highlights the defining moment when the raging bull within momentarily exercises supremacy, chess played by lawyers on the judicial game board and finally an underlying love story that is devoid of any saccharin coats. But what distinguishes the film even more are the performances of the principals. Deepak Dobriyal is riveting, will Bollywood now take notice of this powerhouse of talent? Mahie Gill makes her way into RGV camp and her potential is well utilised. If I may dare say, after Urmila here is a true successor for RGV camp. Zakir Hussain as always impresses as the "fool me not" Inspector.

The proceeding are slick and the pace rapid. There was immense scope for the plot to pan out a howdunnit in "Johnny Gaddar" style. And yes thankfully RGV doesn't pay tribute to "Saw" series though the subject had enough potential.

There is a fine line between technical excellence and showing-off technical excellence. The background score and cinematography undoubtedly falls into the latter category. Toning down would help immensely.

And yes, the ode to "Rangeela" song is awesome. Likewise its "Company" in the scene where Mahie Gill wears shades in the police station.

PS: A better title was warranted, seriously.

Not a love story is a Masterpiece by Ram Gopal Varma. It is slow paced movie,In few minutes you will be connected to the movie and then it would be impossible to disconnect yourself. It brings fear of situation and bad time in you.It brings practicality of life in you.Its ultimately defines and defies LOVE.Its 'Not A Love Story' Its Love,Just Pure form of Love.

Performances: Every person involved to the film has done his or her best.I would like to appreciate Mahie Gill and Deepak Dobriyal for amazing acting and Mr.Ram Gopal Varma for Superb Direction. Dialogue writer has written a few touching lines which make you shiver. Background music of rangeela in the end was so perfect..!!

I Recommend this Movie.

NOT A LOVE STORY...should have been titled NOT A STORY....one of the worst movie i have ever seen....worst story...worst direction..even worst CINEMATOGRAPHY-only can see legs and face close ups of the people in whole film....movie feels to be shoot-ed with the crappy mobile camera.....RAM GOPAL VERMA should now seriously think about his retirement or stop making this type of non-sense movies...the effect of the movie- you will start praying to god in cinema to complete the movie as soon as possible and help you get out of the cinema soon....you can somehow bare the movie till first half..but then after the half...its just out of control...GOD SAVE EVERYONE from this kind of movies...

I watched the TV serial version of this and I have to admit that was better than this movie.the story of this movie is actually suited for a TV show.And more than that this film looks boring because of its camera-view.there was lots of buzz about the camera work but it was simply awful.its not a very commercial type movie.Maybe class audiences like this.acting was average but the camera work and flow of story makes it very very dull.music is bad as well.overall,awful.you will have to give an afford not to fall asleep during watching this.Not worth watching.But again if you are a fan of rgv you may just want to watch it.

well, if you want a lame screenplay with a formulaic scenario and storyline to become at least has the potential to get some box office gross, the first thing you producers or director got to do is finding a marketable female actress to be such main character. but the basic requirement seemed to become a lost cause from the very beginning. this female cast was a big mistake. a woman already past her prime, looked so unattractive with her ordinary features, a lightly hooked nose, meaty and fleshy face and body, there were no ingredients that could ever make her realize the dream of becoming a bollywood star but a bimbo or even a playmate-like whore, by sleeping and selling her body and soul to any potential dream maker she could find, just as what the movie itself predictably rendered in the end. such lame and overly used scenario/plot/storyline have already been used elsewhere thousand times. if the main character, the heroine, is an eye candy, then it still got the chance of being barely watchable, but....