'Love Games': Dangerously Manipulative
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...