Karan Kundrra and Tejasswi Prakash give set couple goals at Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 screening

Like its predecessor, Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 examines the uncontrollable energies released when technology collides with human relationships. Released in 2010, Love Sex Aur Dhokha was edgy, insightful and urgent – the episode about an honour killing still hasn’t lost its raw power. But the sequel, while following the same format of three loosely interconnected stories and pursuing similar concerns, feels redundant, laboured and barely challenging.

Banerjee has written Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 with Shubham and Eeb Allay Ooo director Prateek Vats. All three chapters involve gender and sexuality as performance rather than fact – perhaps the movie’s most provocative aspect.

In “Love”, trans woman Noor (Paritosh Tiwari) is the star of a Bigg Boss-style reality show titled Truth Ya Naach. The line between what is real and what is staged has been rubbed out in a set-up in which every move is being documented. “Your best moments are always off-cam,” an underling complains to Noor, who duly ensures that the most intimate parts of her self are laid bare for the sake of higher ratings.