The verdict about Love Sex aur Dhokha is out. It is a hit and the producers are laughing all the way to the bank. Dibarkar Banerjee has attempted to make a film, which never before has been made in the history of Indian cinema. PD cameras, CCTVs and a spy cam were used to make the entire film. Most of the visuals are shaky, as the camera is not supported by a tripod and is held by the characters.
There have been many instances in the past where after a film is declared a hit, someone not associated with it tries to squeeze in and hog the limelight for five seconds of fame. But if the film flops, no one comes ahead to claim the credit.
Recently, short filmmaker Abhay Kumar from Chandigarh claimed that Love Sex aur Dhokha's first story is inspired from his short, Udaan, which had won the Jury Award at the MAMI Film Fest 2010. Mehul Thakkar and Shweta Parande of IBNMovies saw the short film to find out if any of his allegations were true. Here's a comparison.
Abhay Kumar had mentioned to Indiatimes.com in an interview that he had gone to meet Dibakar at his office a few months back to assist him, but couldn’t meet him.
At the time, Love, Sex aur Dhokha was in post production, as the shooting was completed in October. So, Kumar's allegation that LSD is inspired from his short film ends there. Yes, his film has done rounds at film festivals a year back. But there are so many aspiring filmmakers who shoot the way LSD has been made, holding the camera freestyle.
The first story of LSD has characters Rahul and Shruti, who are students of a film academy. Rahul is an aspiring director and falls in love with his heroine during the process of making their diploma film. In Udaan, there is no aspiring filmmaker and a heroine from an institute.
Let’s move ahead. Rahul meets Shruti’s father, and gives him a role in the film so that he allows his daughter to be a part of it. In the short film, no such thing....
Rahul and Shruti fall in love, run away and tie the knot because Shruti’s possessive father would have never allowed them to get married. In the short film, the lead actors run away and come to Mumbai because the hero of the film had stolen money from the heroine’s father. Still no connection to LSD.
Shruti calls her dad to confess she is married to Rahul, following Rahul’s advice to reveal their whereabouts to her father. Abhay Kumar does not have any such scenes nor does his plot touch the storyline of LSD.
After knowing about the whereabouts of his daughter Shruti, the father sends his kin to kill her husband and her. It is Shruti’s brother who chops the couple into pieces and buries them leaving no evidence, an incident inspired by a true story. In Udaan, the couple is shot dead in broad daylight on a beach and their bodies are left floating in the ocean.
The only relevance in Abhay Kumar's claims is that both the films have been given the same treatment. Period.
We contacted Anshuman Jha, who played the role of Rahul in the film LSD to get his point of view. After watching the film Udaan he said, “I didn’t see any love between the couple unlike Rahul and Shruti in LSD. The two characters in the short film are on the run - that’s it. Maybe the filmmaker will get some mileage by this but it is not going to help in the long run. No doubt, his short film is very good and I am sure he is a very good filmmaker. I have gone to film institutes and I see people filming each other in the canteen, so-called making a film. That is how aspiring filmmakers start. Only thing which is common in Udaan and LSD is voyeurism”.
Shruti, who was paired opposite Anshuman Jha in the first story of LSD said, "I saw the film and there is no history about the characters in the film, there is no proper script. I would have been happy if the filmmaker would have made a full fledged story out of it. I don't know what to say about this filmmaker. We are just actors who have done what we were told to do it. If he wants credit, just walk into the maker's office. There is no point making unnecessary noise otherwise."
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