| Love sex Aur Dhokha | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Dibakar Banerjee |
| Written by | Dibakar Banerjee Kanu Behl |
| Produced by | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor Priya Sreedharan |
| Starring | Anshuman Jha Nushrat Bharucha Rajkummar Rao Neha Chauhan Amit Sial Herry Tangri Ashish Sharma |
| Cinematography | Nikos Andritsakis |
| Edited by | Namrata Rao |
| Music by | Sneha Khanwalkar |
| Distributed by | ALT Entertainment Balaji Motion Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹2 crore[1][2] |
| Box office | est. ₹9.8 crore[3] |
Love Sex Aur Dhokha (transl. Love, Sex And Betrayal; also known by the initialism LSD) is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language anthology found footage drama film directed by Dibakar Banerjee and written by Banerjee and Kanu Behl. Jointly produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor and Priya Sreedharan under the banner of ALT Entertainment, the film stars mostly newcomers including Anshuman Jha, Nushrat Bharucha, Rajkummar Rao, Neha Chauhan, Amit Sial, Herry Tangri and Ashish Sharma. It has three separate but interlinked stories about an honour killing, an MMS scandal and sting operations.
Banerjee conceived the film after he came across several video clips containing sexual content including the DPS MMS clip and wanted to explore what led to that situation. He then wrote two short stories, which he later expanded into three. The film was made entirely using digital formats with different cameras, including a handycam, an amateur film camera, a security camera, an underwater camera, and spy cameras. Nikos Andritsakis served as the film's cinematographer and Namrata Rao was its editor. The film's soundtrack was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar and the lyrics were written by Banerjee.
Love Sex Aur Dhokha was screened at the 2010 London Indian Film Festival and the Munich International Film Festival. It was released in India on 19 March 2010 to positive reviews from critics. The film was made on a budget of ₹20 million (US$240,000); it grossed ₹97.8 million (US$1.2 million) and proved to be a commercial success. Rao and Pritam Das won the Best Editing and the Best Sound Design Award, respectively, at the 56th Filmfare Awards. Khanwalkar received the R. D. Burman Music Award.
A spiritual sequel titled: Love Sex Aur Dhokla 2 was released in 2024.[4]
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- ^ "Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 unfolds 3 unique stories of the digital world!". Firstpost. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.