Not a love story review

Cast: Deepak Dobriyal, Ajay Gehi, Zakir Hussain, Mahie Gill, Mahie Gill's legs, Mahie Gill's freckles, a goldfish, a fishy perverted neighbour etc 

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma 

Rating: Gruesome 

One of the biggest challenges in filming a real life story is that it has already been told. So, how do you make it exciting, unpredictable or entertaining? Also can you really do any of these things without altering the original story? RGV's 'Not a love story' takes reality, slices it into tiny pieces and serves it with bloody sauce. Based on Maria Susairaj and her graphic encounters, this film provides enough visual distractions to have your jaws touching your feet through most of its 105-minute runtime. 

For those who haven't bothered to follow the Neeraj Grover case, here's a quick download. The film is about Anusha Chawla (Mahie Gill), an every-girl from small-town India who migrates to Mumbai, hopeful of cutting it into big-bad-Bollywood. In doing so, she leaves behind her obsessively possessive boyfriend, Robin Fernandes (Deepak Dobriyal). After several auditions, rejections, a few casting couch-surfing scenes, a million phone calls from Robin, Anusha finally bags a film. The one to offer her a lucky break, is Ashish Bhatnagar (Ajay Gehi), the only director in town who doesn't want a friend with benefits and actually appreciates true talent. But then true talent Anusha is not and neither does Bhatnagar want less than a sleepover.