I decided to watch LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha because it is a found footage film, and I love that genre. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha translates into Love, Sex and Deceit and consists of three related stories about ordinary people who unwittingly will be crushed due to the intersection between societal pressures and the media.
LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha’s three stories seem deceptively simple, almost verging on cliche, but they pack an emotionally resonant punch at the end of each story. The first story is about a couple that falls in love while making a student film. The second is about a lout courting a hardworking, quiet woman at the local shop. The third is about an investigative reporter who brings his work home with him.
LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha is an Indian movie so there are subtitles. I think that my memory fails me, but LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha may be my first Indian movie, specifically a Hindi movie made in Bollywood. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha isn’t flashy. There are no dance sequences. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha feels devastatingly raw and real and simultaneously merciless and sympathetic. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha really condemns gender norms and how the weight of those norms burden women far more than men while stressing the negative impact on men.
I enjoyed LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha so much that I rewatched the majority of it immediately after my first viewing. I’m certain that I missed a lot more than I understood. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha gives us a found footage film with a conscience rooted in real horror instead of the supernatural.