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critic's rating:  2.0/5

Rating: 2 stars

Quick take: Raunchy but extremely jaded

There are two good things about  Beiimaan Love, one’s Sunny Leone and the other is the film’s music. Rest of the movie is jaded, overtly sentimental and trying too hard to be a contemporary love story. At times you feel this movie was made from a script that was probably rejected by Sharmila Tagore in the ’70s and Rekha in the ’80s. Its a grossly dramatised story of a woman who is cast aside by society and taboos. Yet she somehow manages to salvage her pride.

The movie starts off with Sunaina (Sunny Leone) being celebrated as a successful entrepreneur. Her public felicitation irks KK Malhotra (Rajiv Verma) and his son Raj (Rajniesh Duggal). Through several flashbacks the viewer is acquainted with their story, where Sunaina goes from being KK’s blue eyed office girl to Raj’s object of lusty ambitions. She invests too much faith and emotion in Raj and the Malhotras, while they only break  her heart in return. Scorned by the unjust treatment meted out to her, she exacts her revenge by putting the Malhotras out of business. Right through the film, love becomes seditious as characters use love as a veil to cheat and swindle, therefore desperately trying to justify the film’s title.

The problem with Beiimaan Love is that it tries one twists too many. The screenplay is all over the place. It tries to sneak in too many movie clichés and that just doesn’t make a lot of sense. There’s the usual fill of benevolent Grandmother love, Father and Son not seeing eye to eye and even the severely jaded rich folks not respecting middle class people especially when it comes down to marriage propositions. This script truly feels like it was rescued from a time capsule.

Bad writing aside, Beiimaan Love certainly looks slick. The visual treatment of the movie is very urban and chic, which just creates an even starker contrast with its lost-in-time style of writing. Director Rajeev Chaudhari really makes a meal out of his film.

Amidst all the chaos the one thing that lends some respectability and value add to the movie is Sunny Leone’s presence. She looks absolutely gorgeous, is styled to perfection and just her honest efforts to portray a bold and confident woman makes the movie tolerable. Her co-stars though are left to suffer  in caricatures for characters. Rajniesh Duggal, Rajiv Verma and even Sunny’s better half Daniel Weber (making an acting debut) are all wasted in jaded roles. It’s the music that compliments Sunny’s best efforts and saves Beiimaan Love some major blushes.

As you’d expect from a Sunny Leone movie, Beiimaan Love has a lot of onscreen seduction and romance. But all the film’s goodness is wasted on a script that’s so trite and amateur that at times it gets laughable. This movie is strictly for die-hard Sunny Leone fans only.

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