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The Rise and Rise of RajKummar Rao
Bollywood hurls with legacy and lineage. And there, RajKummar Rao’s journey feels like an emergence itself. His presence is a powerful reminder that talent, when nurtured with relentless hard work, can rewrite the rules of the game. His story began not with a red carpet but with a camera rolling on a modest set in Dibakar Banerjee’s Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010). The role was small, fleeting even, but something about his presence lingered. We saw him fully in character. It was this firm and calm authenticity that caught the att | Click Here...
“Aamir, Ranveer & others are victims of deepfake that is shown is ‘LSD 2′” – Dibakar Banerjee
Breaking further boundaries, it is fascinating that Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 is now the first feature film that largely covers the world of the internet while it also addresses the issue of Deepfake videos that are spreading like wildfire these days, especially when celebrities like Aamir Khan, Allu Arjun, and Ranveer Singh become victims of it. Concerning this, director Dibakar Banerjee also sheds light on how Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 has a story that discusses Deepfake videos and their impact. Dibakar Banerjee states, "LSD 2 is the only feature film made in India that talks about Deepfak | Click Here...
“Ekta Has Become More Combative,” Dibakar Banerjee
The Khosla Ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! director says the idea of a spiritual sequel was mooted by the producer. “In 2019 Ekta Kapoor told me, ‘Let’s go ahead with LSD2.’ That’s when I realized that it was a decade since the first film. We had lived an entire lifetime in that decade.And we had enough material to make a sequel. Before that,there wouldn’t have been enough life lived to make LSD2. In any case I was busy with my Netflix series and then Covid happened. After Covid here we are. That’s why it took fourteen years.” Dibakar admits Ekta Kapoor now is a diff | Click Here...
Review of ‘LSD 2’: An eerily real take on the fakeness of the virtual world that is executed with innovation & finesse
Rating - **** (4/5) If you thought you're constantly overwhelmed but just how consuming and exhausting social media, thirst for validation, cutthroat and ugly competition is in today's times - you are somehow prepared for the wildness that direct Dibakar Banerjee brings with LSD 2 - a spiritual sequel to the path-breaking Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010). You can never expect and neither are you fully prepared for what Banerjee has in store for you with LSD 2. There is an obvious Black Mirror-ish vibe to these stories that range from being about reality shows to a | Click Here...
Swastika Mukherjee upset over leaked sensitive video from ‘LSD 2’
'Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2' (LSD 2) has indeed generated chatters among the audiences following the release of its raw and real trailer. Even the casting of the film also surprised the masses and right from the announcement, the film continued to be in the headlines. While the makers are constantly keeping the audience hooked, surprisingly, Swastika Mukherjee's sensitive clip from the film has been leaked and she is very upset about it so the team is trying to figure out a way to get it down. The conversations related to the film are constantly heating up. In another shocking turn of eve | Click Here...
“There is a lot of frontal nudity in the film, which we had to blur out” – Dibakar Banerjee on ‘LSD 2’
The trailer for LSD 2 came out yesterday, and it was all that you can expect it to be - clutter-breaking bold, raw and ruffling many feathers. While it is indeed a sequel to Love Sex Aur Dhokha (LSD) but it has only adapted the concept of raw filmmaking as opposed to being a continuation of any story from the original film. LSD 2 has Dibakar Banerjee taking the director's seat again and considering his resume is as glorious as one can imagine it to be, one can only expect better things from LSD 2 as well. Recently, the cast and Banerjee came together for the trailer launch and they w | Click Here...
LSD 2 Trailer Review: Raw, clutter-breaking & shocking as Dibakar Bannerjee delves into grim realities
If we look at some of the most talked-about films of this year, Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 indeed pioneers ahead in the list. While the posters and videos of Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 gave a glimpse of a story that delves into the era of the internet, the character introductions and the songs further set the perfect tone for a gripping and shocking story on its way. Now, as the film draws near to its release, the makers are here with the trailer of Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2, and it opens up to the world of dark digital delicious dogma, which is relevant to today's youth and realities! The trailer | Click Here...
The Rise & Rise Of Riz Ahmed
He was Rizwan Ahmed when I first got to know him .The film where Riz/Rizwan first caught my attention was Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist in 2013 where he played Changez Khan with a terrifying intensity. I immediately asked Mira to help me with an interview. Riz was attentive, polite and courteous. He spoke about his roots in India and his favourite Indian actors. “It was lovely to reconnect with the sub-continent and explore Delhi, which is a city I have never visited before. I got to know a little more about my own family tree and engage with Urdu throu | Click Here...
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar: I think Parineeti was scared as Arjun changed from the submissive driver to an aggressive and scared policeman – Dibakar Banerjee
In producer and director Dibakar Banerjee’s Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, Arjun Kapoor, and Parineeti Chopra will be seen pitted against each other as sworn enemies. The two actors are good friends off-screen but for this film, they had to hate each other on-screen. Dibakar took a drastic step to achieve this in the film. The talented film-maker reveals, “No one looks pretty when your life is being choked out of you. No one looks their best when being slapped in the backseat of a car in the middle of nowhere in the dead of the night as a huge threatening stranger asks you questions y | Click Here...
Rohan Joshi in Dibakar Banerjee’s Netflix film Freedom
Rohan Joshi who entertained one and all as Vidya Balan’s son in Mission Mangal has bagged yet another interesting web project. He will be part of the stellar cast of Dibakar Banerjee’s Netflix film Freedom. Freedom as we know, has Naseeruddin Shah, Manisha Koirala, Huma Quereshi, Kalki Koechlin and Divya Dutta. We now hear of Rohan playing a crucial role in the film. Freedom will be the story of middle-class folks and the emotions around family ties. We buzzed Rohan but could not get through to him. We reached out to the spokesperson at Netflix | Click Here...
Review of Netflix film Ghost Stories: A terrific opportunity lost to self-indulgence
Starring Janhvi Kapoor, Surekha Sikri, Vishal Verma, Shobita Dhulipula, Sukant Goel, Avinash Tiwary, Mrunal Thakur Directed by Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) After hearing the distinguished quartet of directors and its excitable cast raving, giggling and squirming about the eerie scary experience they went through, Ghost Stories comes as a bit of a letdown. No moments of an epiphany this time, like the one when Kiara Advani shuddered, and not because the ground shook, in Lust Stories. The closest | Click Here...
Karan Johar’s Ghost Stories trailer will send some chills down your spine
When Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee united last time to make 'Lust Stories' on Netflix, it became a huge hit. The series was not only loved by the audience with respect to content, but it also gave the industry two modern-day stars in the form of Kiara Advani and Vicky Kaushal. After more than a year, the team is coming up again with something special in the form of 'Ghost Stories', which is all set to premiere on the very first night of the New Year. The project stars actors like Janhvi Kapoor, Sobhita Dhulipala and Gulshan Devaiah in pivotal roles. | Click Here...
The team of ‘Lust Stories’ are all set to petrify you with ‘Ghost Stories’
When Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee came up with Lust Stories last year, the audience loved how the digital world was being explored with new stories ringing in effectively that might not have got a theatrical release, courtesy the censorship and all. All the 4 different stories by the 4 different directors were loved and actors like Vicky Kaushal, Radhika Apte & Kiara Advani simply aced in their performances. A year later, the same team is now back with a new story to tell. Just the difference is that it's not lust, but ghostly stories. Yes, Karan Johar | Click Here...
Reasons why we should be excited about Netflix’s Ghost Stories
Not a single soul can deny the success of Lust Stories in 2018. Filmmakers Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap have, once again, teamed up for a rather ravishing Netflix original called Ghost Stories. Various reports suggest that the series will be engaging all four directors to helm individual stories in the horror and supernatural genre. So for everyone who’s up for a scare, this might be the show you’ve been waiting for. The stories that are shown will be thematically connected to each other and will culminate at the ending. Indian scares have been qu | Click Here...
Review of Netflix’s Lust Stories: Urbanised ‘Gandi Baat’
The Indian film industry has been struck by a stunning epiphany in recent times. It has finally woken up to the fact that, just like the male of the species, female Homo sapiens are also born with (gasp!) sexuality. And, corresponding to that epiphany, the powers that be, in Bollywood, have pulled out all the stops to make the most of said epiphany. That explains the cataclysmic shift in the premise of Hindi flicks being churned out of its movie factory these days. From the slice-of-life movies of a couple of years ago, Bollywood is now seeing a deluge of films celebrating female sex | Click Here...