Portable Presents: Best Indian Films of 2011

Love Sex Aur Dhokha (Love Sex And Betrayal)

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

LSD—as the title is lovingly shortened to—was the first film in Indian cinema history to be shot entirely in Digicam format. It follows three stories which each use a different kind of hidden camera; a store security camera, a video camcorder and a spycam.

Banerjee has made his name in Hindi films by incorporating pertinent social issues into his work and LSD is no exception; the film mentions inter-caste relationships, honor killings, sexual exploitation in the film industry and MMS sex scandals.

Unsurprisingly, the film wasn’t released without controversy; the notorious stuffed shirts of the Central Board of Film Certification forced producers to pixellate a sex scene, remove references to the inter-caste relationship and tone down the lyrics of a song. Even so, LSD is still voyeurism at its most repellent and most enticing.