Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal Movie Reviews

Thrillers have been Vikram Bhatt's forte and THREE - LOVE, LIES, BETRAYAL, scripted by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Vishal Pandya, takes the legacy forward. This time, it's a simple setting, involving three people. But it's not as simple as you think. The relationships are complicated, the characters are crooked and double crossing is almost a habit for this trio. Unpredictability is the strength of THREE. Also, the culmination should come as a jolt

he drives a flashy car, dresses chic and lives with her husband in a dream house by a lake in Scotland. But, believe it or not, she is strapped for cash. That's because her husband is a loser. He's cantankerous too. "She wears the pants, I wear the skirts," he complains after getting drunk. They aren't cross-dressers; he is simply stating who controls the remote of their relationship. After a fight when his wife wants to make up in the traditional, time-tested way, the hubby stops her midway

In an industry relying on borrowed scripts and predictable outlines, sometimes we look for treatment to make all the difference. And when it's not at the cost of the narrative, the effect could be interesting. Vishal Pandya's film, Three: Love Lies Betrayal, may not be a completely original concept but the director's vision makes it somewhat above the ordinary. It's a story about a married couple living in Scotland Anjini Dutt (Nausheen Sardar) and Rajeev (Akshay Kapoor)

Vikram Bhatt's script may be thrilling, but the execution is far from it. A shallow love triangle develops between a melancholic violin teacher, her unemployed, freeloading husband, and their tenant. Adamant about not selling her ancestral property in Scotland, Anjini (Sardar) and Rajeev (Kapoor, with an odd accent) take in a PG.

It's like watching someone bake a classic chocolate cake. You know the ingredients. You know the recipe. You know the technique. Heck, you even know the taste. Only there's nothing classic or sweet about Vikram Bhatt's Three-Love, Lies and Betrayal, directed by his assistant, Vishal Pandya. Even though you know exactly where the plot is headed, the predictability hits a sour note every few minutes with its implausible backdrop and inconsistent screenplay.

It’s very tiresome to watch so-called thriller films, which have rank bad characterisation and loopholes in the screenplay big enough to drive a truck through. Some of new Bollywood may have got the Hollywood packaging, promotions and posters quite picture perfect, but the grit and pacing of a hard-boiled story is still sorely missing. Three is the newest such beauty, helmed by another debutant director. It’s the sorry story of a couple