The million dollar question making the rounds is – Does ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha' have a narrative?' The answer is yes. In fact, there are three stories, each of them being shown in episodic manner with ‘Love', ‘Sex' and ‘Dhokha' being the plot drivers for the respective tales.

Do they work? Yes, they do though it is obvious that there are ups and downs in the pace of these stories. While each of these stories starts with a bang and has a valid end, there is a slight dip that comes in occasionally and makes you pine for some faster movement.

So there is a young couple who fall in love during the shooting of a diploma movie, get married secretly and then face the anger of their family. Since the movie is set in a filmmaking school, the presence of a camera right through this story does come across as quite valid.

The second story is about an unemployed young man stationed at a retail shop who takes advantage of a naive girl by capturing their lovemaking moments through a security camera. The third story is about a sting operation where an aspiring dancer gets back on a superstar by capturing the entire casting couch proposal on movie. Both these stories have seen quite a few predecessors in real life.

Does the movie work with disjointed episodes like this? Certainly yes, if one is willing to drop all predetermined notions about how a feature movie should look. This is why after 15 minutes, one has to get used to a shaking camera, sync sound, leading to quite a few audio disturbances and random frame capturing.

However, one does feel that treatment like this comes with its own limitations. Since the movie is about how a camera follows the lives of people in every nook and corner, the narrative has to be real and there cannot be any dramatization of an event.

However, this very limitation also works as strength for Banerjee. Whether it is body language, intimate moments or the framing of a scene, done wonderfully by Nikos Andritsakis, everything is captured ‘as-is'.

Also, be warned that the foul language in the movie is as explicit as it gets. Never before in a Hindi movie has one heard the kind of cuss words that one hears in ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha'. Again, quite justified since this is the first movie that truly fits into the bracket of 'slice of life'.

‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha' couldn't have been what it is without the effort of its cast. Everyone – Anshuman Jha (Rahul), Shruti (Shruti), Raj Kumar Yadav (Adarsh), Neha Chauhan (Rashmi), Arya Devdutta (Naina), Herry Tangri (Loki Local) to Amit Sial (Prabhat) – everyone is outstanding.

‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha' has one factor which totally works for it – its genre which is unusual, extraordinary and unheard of.

This is a kind of movie where a filmmaker can afford to play around without worrying much about universal approval. That's exactly the route that ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha' takes as it is made for a very niche audience that wants something non-Bollywood content in film.