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'Love Games': Dangerously Manipulative

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Film: "Love Games"; Director: Vikram Bhatt; Cast: Patralekha, Gaurav Arora, Tara Alisha Berry and Hiten Tejwani; Rating: **1/2 An erotic thriller, "Love Games" is about love, lust and frustrations in extramarital affairs, and "survival of the cunning". The plot revolves around a nymphomaniac widow, Ramona (Patralekha), her 'toyboy' Sameer Saxena aka Sam (Gaurav Arora), a businessman's son and his love interest Alisha Asthana, an abused wife of a lawyer. High on drugs and to induce some excitement into her sex life with Sam, Ramona devises a scheme based on a novel that she had read, "Love Games". The rules are simple. At any party, they would have to spot a couple who are in love, then each one of them must get close to the partner of the opposite sex and try to bed them. Whoever seduces their target first, is the winner and the loser will have to supply the winner with drugs for one year. The games, which begin as an experiment f...

Patralekha opens up about 'Love Games'

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Citylights actress Patralekha, who will be seen in an opposite role in her next movie - Vikram Bhatt's Love Games, says she is reluctant to call herself a bold actress. "I am quite averse to the word bold. Love Games is a film that shows reality. We all know swingers in Bollywood are something that is rampant all over," said the actress at the press conference of the film. Patralekha will essay the role of Ramona, who is dangerous, materialistic and a sexual predator leading an immoral lifestyle unlike her debut film. About the prepping for the role, she said: "Without Vikram sir's guidance, I don't think I could pull this off. I had to really dive deep into the pain within myself, which I really did not know existed. When I came back, (Mahesh) Bhatt saab said something to me which I won't forget. He said 'I've scratched the surface and there is lot more there.' On the last day of shoot, Vikram sir told me, 'don't be afraid to feel...