Speechless! I had great expectations from this movie, and trust me; it didn’t disappoint me even a bit! Three stories, running in different time lines, and each one of them equally engaging and brilliant! You will laugh almost all throughout the movie but you are sure to be dumbstruck at times.
LSD is the baap of all reality TV shows you’ve ever seen before, so upfront, so blatant, it hits you hard right where it should! Ok, how blatant? I saw people leaving the middle of movie, not 2-3, close to 15 viewers left as the movie started to get more and more ‘disturbing’ , probably for them. The best part of the movie remains the all new start cast, no one and I mean no one, in the whole movie was a familiar face, which works with the whole theme, and allows you to somehow connect to the 3 stories. Watch out for characters like Shruti’s father and Atul, I’m sure you must have come across such characters in your life.
Dibakar Banerjee continues to catch the ‘essence’ of regional lingo, from the curses to casual conversations, everything was realistic, or shall I say neorealist. LSD has set a standard for cinematography in the Indian Film Industry; the whole movie gives you the feel of watching ”footages” from a mobile, digicam and a CCTV which gave a sense of hyperrealism. The concept behind LSD (as far as I’ve done my research) was to show something we’re used to seeing at home, or something what we see on our computers, cell phones , but not on a big screen, not something you’d go to watch at theaters. They made sure that the light is not up to the mark or the camera angles are inappropriate at times, but nor once would you have problem understanding the scene or problem with visibility. All this ‘feel’ was maintained by keeping such cinematography, not even once would you feel that you’re watching a movie. Nothing in the movie felt larger-than-life, which maintained the aesthetic, had there been familiar faces in the movie or had the movie been shot in a “normal” way, the charge of the scenes and emotions wouldn’t have had even half the impact. LSD has a runtime of approximately 108mins, out of which last 20mins did get a little slow and honestly; I did lose a little interest. But make sure you catch LSD, you won’t be disappointed, either you’ll be ‘offended’ or you will come out astounded, very high probability of latter though.
Look out for the dialogs in the movie hilarious and strong, and, please please do try out the soundtracks if you haven’t! Kudos to Nikos Andritskis (Cinematographer), Sneha Kanwalkar (Composer) and of course, Dibakar Banerjee.
Dibakar is the director to watch out for; he has done it again for the third time!
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Here’s the a video of Dibakar and Nikos explaining why they went digital:
Rating: 4/5
Year: 2010
Movie Site: http://www.lsdthefilm.com
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