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.

Having seen this film, I was left with mixed feelings. On the plus side, the film does manage to capture some intriguing visuals. The cinematography is sleek and stylish, which adds a certain flair to the otherwise standard narrative. The performances are competent, and there's a noticeable effort from the cast to bring their characters to life.

However, the film struggles with several issues. The plot is rather derivative, feeling like a rehash of familiar themes and tropes without adding much originality. It's predictable, with twists that can be spotted from a mile away, which makes the story less engaging.

Additionally, the film's attempt to delve into its themes often feels superficial and unconvincing. The character motivations and relationships lack depth, leading to an overall sense of emotional detachment. The storytelling is somewhat disjointed, making it hard to stay fully invested in the characters or their arcs.

In summary, while the film has some visual appeal and solid performances, it falters in terms of originality and depth. It's an okay watch if you're looking for something visually appealing, but don't expect a compelling or memorable narrative.

When you have only compulsion and opportunity to make a film rather than a script at least. Result has to be like this. Director Mr. Vikram Bhatt is writer of this irritating game so he has to be fully blamed of this waste of time of audience. Only starting few minutes of many films give you idea that how it is going to be. Film opens with a body crashing on a car. His younger and good looking wife is mourning in front of Police then locks herself in bedroom and her cry converts into laughter. This opening scene is so stale. This first bite gives you the bitter taste about the rest meal. Film is full of irritating melo drama with topping of bad performances. Screenplay has everything except mind. Dialogues are good at places. One can sneak into bedroom of a high profile person house and even with opening door with keys!? A girl is sleeping so soundly even after being brutally beaten, as screenplay says but doesn't look like, that sneaking person make love on carpet while she is sleeping!? Police comes in starting to investigate for the first death but then vanishes in nowhere or writer had just forget or didn't think it worth to take ahead!? A person takes another person body so easily from a high profile Hospital like cake walk!? Buried in graveyard and after something comes in front of you in climax, which is just ridiculously kiddies. Just tossing a medical drug is enough to justify all this as makers think. Climax and pre climax is so haphazard. Performance wise Patralekha as Ramona is good at places. Main lead Gaurav Arora as Sam has some unusual looks but he is almost blank and unbearable in emotional scenes. He has weird walks. Tara Alisha Berry is dumb doll.

Director Vikram Bhatt has done some good and quality movie in his career but this movie he didn't give us anything new. Mr. Vikram has been trying to introduce new faces and I appreciate that but these new actor and actresses need minimum standard dude! You can't take a good looking girl and cast her into cinema without any acting skill!!! This is not good for your cinema and your directional career also. By the way, I want to review the movie part by part. Direction: OK but could have been better. Acting: Rubbish. Just like the lead cast memorize the dialogue and delivered them on the time when the director said "action". No face expression, dialogue delivery is horrible, no acting skills. Music: the background score come to a surprise and it was good. Songs are not up to the mark. Screenplay: OK but could have been better. The Story was typical but a good screenplay can make a movie good. This screenplay needed some polish and some more details. Story: I already said , nothing new. but some vulgarity and ending twist may be will make you satisfied a little. Editing: There is nothing to edit. What the editor should do in this movie? Eliminate the sex scene and kiss scene?? very poor!!! I just gave it 4 because of background score and the movie is a fast paced. These two qualities tried to save this movie but didn't.

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.