Many would agree that LSD is an unconventional and non-formulaic film. Slightly unconventional i would say because of the shaking camera. The camera quivered too often and many a times at the wrong places making the audience gasp for more and tilt their heads. If this carefully crafted vibration of the camera can be described as art, i would rather give Dibakar a thumbs-up for experimenting with this unexplored territory and a thumbs-down for taking the audience for granted. It is almost like modern art syndrome; the less you understand, the more you are eager to appreciate.

 

LSD combines three dark stories of love, sex and dhokha in the exact order to finally give shape to a movie that delves into the science of the human mind; harsh realities that we pretend to hate or admit; good feelings that we jump to be a part of. Sex is a smell we always carry but we like the smell only in our moments of passion or self-gratification. The three stories have been nicely interconnected and the principle behind the conjunction connects firmly to the theme of the movie. Dibakar….no brownie points for this idea and your jerky and stylish-in-its-own-way camerawork: we have enough instances of them though not the exact combination that LSD delivers.

 

I expected better stories. I have seen MMS scandal being treated in movies, of course minus the blurred hip thrusts; spoof on Bollywood movies is nothing original, Quick Gun Murugun did a better take-off; crude violence has been better dealt earlier, though they always came with intense background scores; betrayal is almost the bread and butter of Bollywood movies as much as love is. I couldn’t relate to the mindless background scores that were almost absent for a larger part of the movie but mysteriously appeared in some of the sequences for no apparent reasons. I guess that was a part of the ‘artistic’ appeal. The stories were placed in order of their engagingness. The third one was a total dodo if we ignore the charm of the mention of ‘Tu Nangi Acchi Lagti Hai’.

 

Dibakar employed average to very average-looking newcomers as the lead characters to add originality to the roles played by them which turned out to be the backbone of the movie primarily because of their strong performances coupled with the raw appeal of regional influence in their body languages.

 

The movie is weirdly beautiful and might seem unassembled and shapeless but that’s how things actually are. You must be prepared for frequent and erratic mood swings in tune with the movie to enjoy the movie. A better suggestion would be to go unprepared and leave the theater with a wanting feeling.

 

P.S. : Don't miss the music of the movie. Its simply outstanding.