Will definitely watch this one, but waiting for your review of Lahore.

Oh, and can you fix the links in the review. They all point to the review itself.

Two things.. this is a Dibakar's film, so have to watch it.. another didn't expect review from you this much early.. Thanks for that... I am used to come to this site for review on Friday night / Sat'day morning.. you gave a pleasant surprise..

@Hitesh I don't mind non-realistic drama. It's just that we have way too much of it.

@Rahul Just saw Lahore, writing it up. Fixing the links too. In just a minute.

@Idea oh what fun! Waiting to hear what you think.

@Manan yeah i do try to get the review out as soon as possible. It worked this time!

@El Nino yeah, good fun, na!? Oh and forgot to thank you for the nachos ;)

Pagal kar dala dibakar ne, hadh hai yar. Koi consistently acchi movies kaise de sakta hai?

just a word............. fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
cant say any thing about it..
and hope this review is not given in any kind pressure because the earlier two movies of dibakar(both winning national awards)received very cold review from you, but those movies were also gems created by dibakar,national awards are proof for them.

This is one of the most powerful films to have come out of the Bollywood line up, one has to go back to the 80's to think of films with such impact, and then Bollywood as a cultural entity did not exist.
The vulnerability of women and their simultaneous exploitation, as they struggle to survive in a male dominated world, the notions of honour, status, and manhood as understood by men and played out over and on women's bodies and lives inspite of our "moderni values", and the sheer callousness and apathy of the consumer society are all very well bought out here. It is no accident that the director has chosen a shop / supermarket as the setting - that ultimate symbol of middle class consumerism, which is a "public space" purely concerned with economics and nothing else, where everything is an object , and no concern is private.
The film owes more than its structure to the Spanish film Amores Perros, but that is fine as the Director has tackled material which is firmly situated in the context of "middle class India".

It was very interesting to note the audience reactions; composed mostly of young men and women mostly from the north of the Vindhyas. Laughter, cat calls, some jeers, all from the men, and a constant chatter as if they had seen all this a thousand times before and that these stories were very familiar to them.
I hope that is not true; if so, then we truly live in shocking times.
PS Lots of typos in your review!

Its been a long time since i saw a bollywood movie which had me rooted to my seat. LSD is really worth every penny spent. The cast just fits into their roles, and gives the film 'REAL' feel.

masterpice... just cant imagine, how much amount of deataling must have gone in the making...

fantastic movie concept

I totally agree with the reviewer . It's a damn good movie and definitely a must watch!

awesome movie......

Great movie; I just walked into the theatre the other day and stumbled on this masterpiece. Keeps you rooted to your seat once you get the general theme of the stories. The ending, where all the three stories, come together is very creatively done. But I hated the 'dhoka' part of it a lot where the guy ruins the life of the girl that he is in love with!!!

I totally agree with the reviewer .

third class movie totalyy watage of time nd especially money...........

will surely bang, Worst ever movie of the century. Super duper flop idea ruining careers of the artists of the movie

@Nikita, I think the points you have raised are exactly what the director has tried to highlight. I do not think that he has made it to "entertain" the audience, in fact in the first story, the comedy part is emphasised and then the story suddenly becomes dark and "real", leaving the audience shocked. And if you found the audience "enjoying" the film, then it is a very sad state on societal values today. What has been shown in the film, is exactly what happens in many parts of the country if not all of it, in varying degrees. Such films need to be made if we have to move beyond the "mother - sister" glorification of women which is extremely hypocritical. Both men and women, and I would say especially men, need to face upto and accept the nature of relationship that exists. The movie highlights the extreme vulnerability of women and their exploitation in a male dominated world. Nowhere does the movie take a stance of titillating the audience unlike the "item numbers" and rape scenes in so called family movies.
The movie is definitely disturbing, in fact some of the men I know who saw the
film responded by saying that the film is bakwas and that is not how men act. But the truth is that most men in our country do, only thing is that it is so taken for granted that both men and women are blind to it. In fact as all the literature / statistics show women suffer silently.
The movie is very much " in your face' through the camerawork, the dialogues, and the entire context of the stories and their framing, possibly that is upsetting, because we are not used to seeing such topics presented up front.

hey guys...... My comments will be more of an observation than going against or in favor of anyone...... What i feel is thrs darkness surrounding all of us n every way we go..its upto us to take the positive out of watever comes out of it and work to eradicate rather than blaming others.....
The film is dark but atleast it hights the ill of our society in some parts of our country..... this shud be taken as a good point and fought against....and to END..... heres a FOOD for thought....:
Hope everyone enjoyed K2h2...Kuch kuch hota hai..the big superhit movie of SRK..rite??? now..he keeps on saying in tht movie:
"..Pyaar ek hi baar hota hai" now he goes on to marry RANI.....who (unfortunately)dies, and then falls for KAJOL in the end...
so here is the situation....agar 'PYAAR ek hi baar hota hai' then which one was his 'pyaar'?? rani?? then why did he fall for kajol...and if it was kajol..then whr did lill anjali come frm??? ;)
think about it.....
cheers mate...

Watched LSD yesterday. All the praises and critical acclaim it has been getting are well deserved. As are all the negative and extreme reactions by some. Before watching it and after too, I've read several reviews and comments about the movie. Almost all of them are comments that relate directly or indirectly to the content of the movie (apart from the camera and technical antics). Some object to it being an 'unnecessary' movie - it does not have a moral takeaway; it shows the grim reality around us, but does not inspire even 10 out of 10,000 people to something about it. A commenter on a youtube video of the promo even went so far as to spam the comments section with a repeated 'all those who are in a good relationship don't watch this s--t, it will ruin you...' or suchlike. A commenter on one of the reviews said it has dialogues which are an insult to womankind. She argues the content might claim to depict reality, but showing it on screen is not the way out, something should be done to curb it.
I think, like another reviewer said it - a mirror to us. It is not entertainment in the happy sense of the word. It does not claim to entertain you. It is just good story telling. Stories are meant to evoke reactions. And a lot of times they are meant to be negative - like shock, disgust and grief. Definitely, I agree that women are often objectified in movies; this one is no different, but the difference lies in the fact that despite the dirty-talk around them, good movies show women as characters, and not just auxiliaries.
I will go on a digression here and mention another recent movie - Teen Patti. While the movie was bad enough on several counts, one thing stood out for me. The only female actor in the movie had the role to prove her abilities as a bimbo and seducer, all the while when she was supposedly studying in the same Mathematics department as the other characters. I was like, is it the only thing left for a female to do in the movie? That I felt was far more sexist in nature than any of the dialogues in LSD. And to add to the facts, the movie was directed by a woman, Leena Yadav (how rare is that?).
Coming back to LSD, it is not perfect, it doesn't try to preach, it derives from places (reality?) and it is, so to speak, in-your-face. But with its raw depiction, it manages to shock you (the murder scene is more brutal than anything carried by usual bollywood action flicks), engage you and you leave the movie with its moments strongly etched in your mind. This movie doesn't have an explicit purpose, but it definitely has its own space. For one may argue, what is 'Red Riding Hood' doing in primary class story books for decades?

Hey, what's this.. when I try to post this comment, it says, "Watch your mouth! The words "s--t" are not allowed here." Does it mean all 4-letter words starting with s and ending with t? Well, what has come to pass...