This month, Shuvam and I experimented with LSD. We liked it so much we tried LSD2. Here’s the result, our review of Dibakar Banerjee’s 2024 Hindi-language film Love Sex aur Dhoka 2 (Love, Sex and Betrayal 2), known to fans as LSD2, the long-awaited sequel to LSD1, now streaming on Netflix.
“It’s like Lars Von Trier meets Richard Linklater…I love that it’s about trans, gay and straight characters and how they see the world, how they see themselves, how the world sees them…And the acceptance of it…And what it means to be an ally…Are you empowering them or are you just playing a game?”
– The Jeff & Shuvam Show
We’re each doing these reviews for our own reasons. For me, I hope to turn more people in the US on to Indian cinema and not just Bollywood. Our reviews are, by design, casually presented, unpretentious, just two people hanging out in a dining room discussing films easily available through services viewers here likely already have.
I’m hoping our reviews will be a gateway drug to the harder stuff like Satyajit Ray, whom most Americans in my experience, short of film students and serious cinephiles, have never heard of, not even his Apu trilogy, or any of India’s other outstanding films and filmmakers.
So go ahead and try a little LSD2. It’s not addictive, I swear.
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