Monday, May 14, 2012

Not a Love Story (2011)

This movie is based on the true life gruesome murder of Neeraj Grover in 2008. The movie has also been shot in the very same building where the murder occurred.

Anusha comes to Mumbai with dreams of being an actress in Bollywood. She gets the right connections and thanks to Ashish, she gets a film as well. Just to show her gratefulness to Ashish, she lets him have sex with her in an inebriated state.

Robin, Anu's boyfriend makes a surprise visit to her flat in the following morning and he catches her with Ashish in a half-naked fashion.

What follows is a purely passion driven murder as Robin isn't able to control himself hearing what Anu has to say. They then cover-up the murder and manage to dispose off the body. Soon enough, the law catches up with them and the 2 are sent behind bars. What happens to them, how their lawyers try to twist the case etc. is the remaining part of this movie.

The camera angles in this movie are crazy. They are always focused on Mahie Gill's legs, inner thighs, panties or breasts. The movements are really jerky and the tight closeups and extreme closeups are stressful beyond a point. Gill has acted very well as expected. She is expected to be grim and to put on a scared, crying face for most of the movie. The way she has exposed her assets in this movie is to be seen to be believed. She actually looks huge in this movie. The closeups augment her assets. Deepak Dobriyal is aggression personified as the boy friend and he makes a solid impact with his fiery body language.

A popular 'Rangeela' song is heard too often in the movie's soundtrack. Guess RGV was too busy admiring his own work.

VERDICT: Interesting, shocking, disturbing and crazy as well. Watchable. 

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