Not a Love Story (2011 film)

Not A Love Story
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by	Nitish sharma; Shailesh R. Singh; Kiran Kumar Koneru
Story by	Nitish sharma
Starring	Mahie Gill; Deepak Dobriyal; Nitish sharma; Ajay Gehi
Music by	Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography	Sapan Narula, Harshraj Shroff , M.Ravichandra Thevar
Edited by	Abhijit Kokate,Vinay Chauhan,Jimmy Thomas
Distributed by	Bohra Bros Prod. Pvt. Ltd.
Release date	19 August 2011; ; ; ; ;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	80 lacs

Not A Love Story is a 2011 Indian crime-thriller film inspired by the gruesome murder of Neeraj Grover in 2008 that led to the arrest of Emile Jerome Mathew and Maria Susairaj. Starring Mahie Gill, Deepak Dobriyal and Ajay Gehi and directed by Ram Gopal Varma, the film was released on 19 August 2011. Ram Gopal Varma has announced that the film is not a biopic but is inspired by the case.

The film's shooting was completed in 20 days. One of the prime locations was the building Dheeraj Solitaire where Neeraj Grover was allegedly murdered in 2008.

Cast

Mahie Gill as Anusha Chawla
Deepak Dobriyal as Robin Fernandes
Ajay Gehi as Ashish Bhatnagar
Zakir Hussain as Inspector Mane
Neil Bhoopalam as Prem
Darshan Jariwala as Anusha's lawyer
Ganesh Yadav as Robin's lawyer
Rasika Joshi as Ashish's mother
Prabhleen Sandhu as Anju
Urmila Matondkar as Item number
Mahesh Thakur as ad-film maker Sam in a guest role
Sandesh Jadhav as Inspector Chavan
Dimple Ghosh as Richa
Rakesh Kukreti as Prashant
Abhijeet Lahiri as Ashish's father
Nandita Puri as Anusha's mother
Vandana Sajnani as Apeksha, Director
Sushma Bhagwat as Robin's mother
Ashok Awasthi as Robin's father
Shankar Sachdev as Public Prosecutor
Kamal Adip as Judge
Rajesh Barsewal as watchman
Sandeep Bose as Kishen, Producer

Music

Reception

Critical response

The critics' response has been positive to mixed. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave 4 stars out of 5. Subhash K Jha gave 3.5 out of 5. Kaveree Bamzai of India Today gave 3 out of 5. Zee News gave 3 out of 5. Raja Sen of Rediff rated it 1.5 out of 5, saying that it is a film made in bad taste.^[7] Harish of Behindwoods rated it 2 out of 5 and said "Overall in the time of stylish filmmaking of no substance movies, RGV tries to differ but with such a wafer-thin but powerful plot-line, you expect the background music, editing and camera work to push it to greatness and that is where the movie falters."^[8]

Mayank Shekhar of the Hindustan Times said "it delves deeper into neither the young dream-chasers of a scary celeb industry nor chilling procedurals of an infamous police case", and rated it 2 out of 5.^[9] CNN-IBN's Rajeev Masand said "Not A Love Story' is not entirely unwatchable", rating it 2 out of 5, but asserted that it is the "most senseless movie made in Bollywood for a long time."^[10] Nupur Barua of fullhyd.com rated it 6/10 and said you can watch the movie if you can digest, visually, blood, gore, violent sex, and constant shaky camera movement.^[11]