Patralekha is Gaurav's Fu*k Buddy' in Love Games, Censor Board's Tribunal approves

The trailer of 'Love Games', Vikram Bhatt’s film about a married woman who seduces a stranger at a party as a game and then decides she wants him to remain her 'fu*k buddy’, is designed to shock us out of our middle class values (as if Kanhaiya’s speech hasn’t already done enough of that). Patralekha in her strangely childlike seductive voice informs us she likes only three things, ‘Money, cocaine and love games’.

Errrr, cocaine? Did she mean cooking? Saw her doing a lot of that in her earlier film 'Citylights' where she was played a docile rural housewife who has probably sniffed nothing more serious than the Vicks inhaler in her entire life.

But this women in 'Love Games' is in serious need of a shrink. She enters a party with her husband and decides to seduce the man who looks most in love with his woman companion while her husband is supposed to do exactly the same with a stranger’s wife.

In case you still don’t get it, Patralekha giggles, “Do I fu*k the husband first, or do you fu*k the wife first?”

Yes, you heard right. This existential question is part of the trailer of 'Love Games', released on the same day when the courts had directed the Ministry Of Information & Broadcasting and the censor board to explain why uncensored footage from films was shown on the internet as part of the trailer and promotions.

However, the fu*k references in 'Love Games' and the scorching smooches are approved material.

Explains the CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani, “We ordered several cuts in Love Games including all the ‘f…k’ references and the scenes showing use of substance abuse. The Bhatts took their film to the Tribunal who passed the film without any cuts except one Hindi cuss word ‘chu…ya’, which was cut. Everything else in Love Games has been cleared with an ‘A’ certificate."

Is Nihalani saying that the censor board has been bypassed by the 'Love Games' producers to get references to ‘fu*k buddies’ passed by the Tribunal?

Says Nihalani, “Yes, that’s exactly what I am saying. Our saying no to abusive language, substance abuse and free-for-all sex liaisons were seen as a curbing of the freedom of expression.”