Not A Love Story Movie Reviews


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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com

    Ramgopal Varma is controversy's favorite child. And it's not the first time that there is so much of a hullabaloo over an RGV film. Be it his choice of subjects or his tweets, RGV is truly distinct, known for walking the untrodden path and speaking his mind. Like him or not, you can't disregard him. This time around, the maverick film-maker chooses to narrate a crime story on an extremely contentious theme, a heinous murder. In 2008, the nation woke up
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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama

    On the whole, NOT A LOVE STORY shocks and stuns, which only goes to prove how impactful the film is. But, most importantly, it reiterates the age-old adage, anger is short-lived madness and how things can change for worse at the spur of the moment. It must be said that NOT A LOVE STORY is amongst Ramgopal Varma’s best works. An intense mindbender, NOT A LOVE STORY is a wonderful illustration of how the accurate approach to storytelling can levitate a film. Try not to miss this one!
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  • Subhash K Jha

    3.5

    Subhash K Jha | Bollyspice

    You leave the film with the painful sound of crashing dreams reverberating in your ears.
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  • Nikhat Kazmi

    3.0

    Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India

    Based on the headline-grabbing case of Kannada actor Maria Susairaj, her boyfriend Jerome Matthew and the murdered television executive Neeraj Grover, Not A Love Story is a startling film. Startling, because it captures the nasty, brutal side of seemingly normal and nice people who sometimes, see nothing amiss in the most heinous of crimes. The casualness with which Anusha and Robin try to cover the tracks of their crime, dispose off the body
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    3.0

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV Movies

    A wannabe actress (Mahie Gill) lives alone in Mumbai. No big deal that. Life is a struggle for her. No big deal again. She believes that stardom is only one role away. No big deal either. When the girl eventually lands an assignment that promises to change her life, disaster strikes. This is a real big deal and Ram Gopal Varma, a director who has been off the boil for quite a while now, makes a fair fist of bringing the grim fate of an urban babe
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  • Nikhat Kazmi

    3.0

    Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India

    Gory, yes but Not A Love Story is an interesting study of the darker and more devious spots of friendly neighbourhood types.
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    3.0

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV

    The lovers are anything but loveable characters. And this tale is a tragedy woven around the ugly face of love. Downbeat? Yes. But it’s engaging and watchable – if for nothing else, for the flashes of the RGV of yore.
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  • Rachana

    3.0

    Rachana | Glamsham

    NOT A LOVE STORY is not a bad film!
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  • Zeenews Bureau

    3.0

    Zeenews Bureau | Zee News

    Although the film is based on Neeraj Grover murder case, it does not show anything beyond what`s already known. In fact, RGV sticks to fiction and fictionalizes almost all the characters.
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    2.5

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day

    A producer makes an indecent proposal to an aspiring actor from small town, Anusha Chawla (Gill) at the beginning of this film. Even though she is more than desperate to make it big in films, keeping her self-respect intact, she walks out on the producer. Wish Gill could use the same gumption to resist the sexual abuse that the camera constantly indulged in, through this film. Like a seasoned pervert, it sneaked into her skirt, rested right under
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  • Gaurav Malani

    2.5

    Gaurav Malani | Indiatimes

    More than the barbaric, bizarre and blood-strained story, what will make your head spin (literally) is Ram Gopal Varma's obsession with the camera, making it gyrate and somersault in every possible way in every second frame. The extreme facial close-ups and his trademark erratic angles have potential to cause nausea as he almost redefines the term 'roller-coaster' entertainment. Based on the 2008 Neeraj Grover murder case that made headlines
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    2.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times

    Moving images can cause a genuine migraine to some. At least the ones in this film could. Swinging at the speed of light, the camera here slips between the legs, under the skirt, is obsessed with the female knee, it licks the derriere, is stuck to the face, then planted under the breasts, over the fan, under the building…. Your head spins. Literally. There are A-grade movies (mostly determined by popularity of filmstars in them, and therefore their budgets)
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.0

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    Sixteen years after making Rangeela, a film centered on a struggling actress and her fairytale rise to stardom, Ramgopal Varma gives us 'Not A Love Story', whose protagonist is also a wannabe star, but one who doesn't get a fairytale ending. Barring a few cosmetic changes, Varma's new film is inspired by the heinous real-life story of Neeraj Grover's murder by Emile Jerome, assisted by his actress-girlfriend Maria Susairaj. It's an incident that shocked
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  • Pratim D. Gupta

    2.0

    Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph

    During a recent trip to the city, Paa maker Balki said that choosing a story/concept for a feature film is a big challenge given that you have to stay excited about it for the next year or more, when the film is getting made. Ram Gopal Varma doesn’t take a year to make his films these days. He is usually done with one within a few weeks. Yet, as his last few films will tell you, he seems to lose interest in them midway through the making.
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  • Karan Anshuman

    2.0

    Karan Anshuman | Mumbai Mirror

    Given his recent run of films that have failed to sparkle at a creative or fiscal level, everyone has turned into an RGV cynic. Here was a filmmaker who earned the right to be called an auteur after directing films like Rangeela, Satya, and Company. Even at his nadir - RGV ki Aag, Phoonk, Agyaat - his style was stamped all over the product. A mere glimpse at a few frames, or the sound of a few notes from the background score is enough to recognise
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    2.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times

    Moving images can cause a genuine migraine to some. At least the ones in this film could.
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  • Raja Sen

    1.5

    Raja Sen | rediff.com

    It can be argued that some directors shoot with a roving camera, representative of the male gaze. That theirs are the cameras that intrusively tackle the forbidden, lingering lecherously on legs and posteriors and cleavage where other conventional, 'shyer' cameras would look up at the girl's eyes. Ram Gopal Varma has long been a proponent of the voyeuristic lens, the one that sneakily, surreptitiously, shamelessly thrusts a sexual angle right in our faces
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    So a girl who helps her boy-friend chop up a temporary lover is one of those headlines which slaps us in the face of a morning and tells us that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. Stranger, and scarier. Then along comes Ram Gopal Varma who makes a film on it, forcing you to ponder some more: can there be anything worse than the truth? Yes, when it’s a movie so shamefully voyeuristic, and so inept. Actually, terming 'Not A Love Story' voyeuristic
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  • Raja Sen

    1.5

    Raja Sen | Rediff

    This is a film made in bad taste, and — with apologies to Mr Capote — in old blood.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    1.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    All we are left with is the detritus, of the body, and a film that could have delved into the minds of those whose lives unravel when a crime of passion occurs.
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  • Aniruddha Guha

    1.0

    Aniruddha Guha | DNA India

    Watching a really terrible Ram Gopal Varma film isn’t anything out of the ordinary anymore. The filmmaker, considered to be one of India’s finest till a few years ago, has lately been a pale shadow of the auteur who wowed us with films like Shiva, Satya, Company, or even Sarkar. But this is old news now. Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag was only the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot many headache-inducing B movies to come from the house of RGV, it seems
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  • Komal Nahta

    NR

    Komal Nahta | Koimoi

    Not A Love Story review by Komal Nahta Biz rating: 1.5/5 stars. What’s Good: The fast pace of the film; the perf...
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  • devenpatel

    3.5

    Iss Pyaar Ko Main Kya Naam Du…..

    devenpatel, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • devenpatel

    3.0

    A story well told ...

    devenpatel, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • bollyfan25

    4.0

    Not A Love Story is freaking-but-awesome!!!

    bollyfan25, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.

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