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Starring: Deepak Dobriyal,
Mahie Gill, Ajay Gehi, Zakir Hussain, Darshan Jariwala
Direction: Ram Gopal Varma
Not A Love Story is a crime-thriller film which
seems to be inspired by the gruesome murder of Neeraj
Grover in 2008 that led to the arrest of Emile Jerome
and Maria Susairaj.
A beautiful, young girl from a middle class family,
Anusha Chawla (Mahie Gill) moves into suburban Mumbai
from Chandigarh. She is aspiring to make it big in hindi
films, in this city of dreams. Very soon, she realizes
that it is an uphill task to achieve the goal she has
set for herself.
She manages to get accommodation in a northern suburb of
Mumbai. And she finds out that it is not easy to get a
break in bollywood, some film makers tell her that
“before making a movie, it's important for a director to
get into a 'comfort zone' with his actors."
In a spate of anger, the
boyfriend first kills that man in the apartment; then
hacks his body into pieces, to dump and burn them off.
A sharp, mild-mannered cop Zakir Hussain pulls up Maria
for questioning and eventually she breaks down.
Anusha and Robin are suddenly dragged to law court.
A very important point conveyed is that a human mind is
capable of doing anything in those sudden and unexpected
but strong moments of anger and lust.
Credits & Crew:
Produced by - Sunil Bohra, Kiran Kumar Koneru,
Direction - Ram Gopal Varma
Screenplay & Dialogues - Rohit C. Banawlikar
Executive Producer - Vijay Vinayak Joshi
Original Music - Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography - Sapan Narula
Co-cinematographer - Zaryan Patel, Harshraj Shroff
Film Editing by Vinay Chauhan, Abhijeet Kokate, Jimmy
Thomas
Costume Design - Subarna Rai Chaudhuri
Sound Design - Leslie Fernandes, Dwarak Warrier |
Anusha is all alone in the
mega city. Back home in Punjab her impatient boyfriend
Robin Fernandes (Deepak Dobriyal) gets worried about his
girl. Anusha then meets a film production executive
Ashish Bhatnagar (Ajay Gehi) , who puts her on a
short-list, eventually gets approval, and signs her in a
lead role. She finally manages to get an important role
in a bollywood film.
Both celebrate in a pub, get intoxicated and end up in
bed in her flat.
Here, Robin, her boyfriend,
arrives in Mumbai and decides to give a surprise visit
to her.
Rather, he gets a surprise and finds a stark-naked man
in her flat. It is this production executive of the
upcoming film who incidentally also landed her that film
role.
The director effectively
depicts the value of those few moments full of anger,
which become responsible for a serious crime committed
without any prior motive. He further uncovers the ugly
face of our society where sex clearly remains the
biggest currency which can be used to get anything in
the world under the sky.
Finally the lawyers profession is exposed to show the
unbelievable how they mould facts and evidences stepping
over the souls and emotions of their own clients – just
to win the case.
Ram Gopal Varma does manage to hold your attention and
the backdrop of the story is the reference to Rangeela (Urmilla
Matondkar and Aamir Khan) which was directed by him.
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Aniz Filmvala
Cast:
Deepak Dobriyal - Robin Fernandes
Ajay Gehi - Ashish Bhatnagar
Mahie Gill - Anusha Chawla
Zakir Hussain - Inspector Mane
Darshan Jariwala - Anusha's Lawyer
Rasika Joshi - Savitri Bhatnagar
Urmila Matondkar - Singer / Dancer
Ganesh Yadav - Robin's Lawyer
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