Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2: Dibakar Banerjee admits that erotic dramas are made in Bollywood just to grab eyeballs [Exclusive]

Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2: In an exclusive conversation with Bollywood Life, filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee admits that erotic dramas are made in the industry just to grab attention. Read on to know more.

Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2: One of the instances where Bollywood has grabbed viewers' attention the most is when it has attempted to make films based on the genre of eroticism. Viewers have often stated that while in the West, erotic drama is treated as important as other genres, in Bollywood, the same is just used to grab eyeballs and attention. In an exclusive conversation, with Bollywood Life director Dibakar Banerjee, whose directorial, Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2, an erotic drama, has released today in theaters, gets candid about the matter.

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Dibakar Banerjee admits that erotic dramas are made in Bollywood just to grab eyeballs

When asked how a large section of the audience thinks that Bollywood makes erotic genre films just to grab eyeballs, Dibakar Banerjee said, 'I have no idea whether they said so or not. But if they did say that, they are not wrong. People are absolutely right about the filmmakers wanting to grab eyeballs. So yeah, you want to grab eyeballs, however, it depends on what you use to grab eyeballs, and once you've grabbed those eyeballs, what do you show to those eyeballs. So that's where I think the difference is.'

In the same interview, the director opened up about Urofi Javed replacing Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia. During Bigg Boss 16, Ekta Kapoor visited the reality show, conducted an audition round of the contestants, and zeroed in on Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia who back then was a contestant on the Salman Khan show. However, Nimrit eventually backed out of the film. Rumours were rife that she backed out as she found some intimate scenes extremely uncomfortable. When asked if Nimrit indeed backed out due to the intimate scenes in the film, the director said, 'Something like that happened. Because when we were making LSD 2, we knew that it's a very scary film for people to be associated with. Many singers refused to sing for the film because of words like Love, Sex aur Dhokha and the controversial nature of the film.''

Here's a video of Dibakar Banerjee below:

While Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2 features newcomers in lead roles, the first installment marked Rajkummar Rao's debut in Bollywood.