Love Games 2016

The movie opens with a shocking fall from the balcony of a penthouse: Om Raichand dies, and the event reveals his marriage to a younger, restless woman named Ramona Raichand [Patralekhaa], a fearless thrill-seeker who treats life as one long dare. Ramona’s partner in crime is Sam [Gaurav Arora], a man tormented by depression who often wounds himself for momentary relief. In sessions with his psychiatrist [Rukhsar Rehman], Sam explains that something essential is missing from his life and that his take on love is blurred by the belief that it’s merely a cover for lust. He also shares a painful family history—his mother left his father for another man—which feeds his conviction that most love stories end in tragedy.

Ramona, sensing Sam’s numbness, pushes him to rethink love as an adventure rather than a risk to be avoided. Together they hatch a dangerous game: Love Games. The rules are simple, but brutal—find the happiest couple at a party and seduce one of them to bed. At a page-3 party, they set their sights on an ordinary couple. Sam manages to seduce the wife first, sabotaging Ramona’s chance to woo the husband, and the moment becomes a flashpoint between the two lovers. Ramona’s anger flares so fiercely that she almost shoots Sam; only a kiss from him calms her, proving how volatile their bond remains.

Their next target is a powerful criminal lawyer, Gaurav Asthana, and his surgeon wife, Alisha Asthana Tara Alisha Berry. Alisha notices Sam’s self-inflicted wounds and asks him not to harm himself. She agrees to drive him home, but a hospital emergency call interrupts their ride and she invites him to witness a live operation from the viewing gallery to understand real pain. For Sam, this moment crystallizes his missing piece: love. He follows Alisha to Goa, and Ramona’s plan picks up steam as she beds Gaurav, exploiting Alisha’s vulnerability to further her scheme.

In Goa, Alisha shows Sam the marks Gaurav has left on her and warns him not to pursue her. Yet feelings bloom, and Sam’s life begins to tilt toward a genuine connection with Alisha. Ramona, furious at the growing bond, offers Sam a disturbing bargain: stay in love with Alisha, but be her boy-toy whenever she desires. Sam refuses to be boxed in and chooses his own path.

One night, with Gaurav away, Ramona brings Sam to Alisha’s house and proposes another Love Games move: Sam should sleep with Ramona on the carpet in front of Alisha’s bed, with the stipulation that any wake-up would mean betrayal. He resists, but fear for Alisha’s safety tips the balance, and he yields. Ramona’s plan takes a dark turn when she rapes him in that vulnerable setup. The next day, Sam confesses everything to Alisha in the hospital warehouse, and a devastated, intoxicated Sam learns that Alisha asked him to never show his face to her again. That night, Alisha studies Gaurav’s sleeping form and begins to plot anew.

The following day, Alisha arrives at Ramona’s house with a difficult truth: a DVD that suggests Ramona entered the penthouse the night Om fell, in disguise, and pushed him to his death. Ramona demands to know her opponent’s true intentions. Alisha, exhausted by being used, declares that she intends to end the cycle of manipulation—by killing both Gaurav and Sam in a twisted version of Love Games. She proposes this as the ultimate game, and Ramona agrees only if Alisha agrees to a recorded assurance.

Ramona seduces Gaurav and delivers a calculated, natural death with an adrenaline injection. Meanwhile, Alisha calls Sam to a hospital warehouse and reveals the grim plan. As Sam processes the truth, Alisha’s revelation spirals into a confrontation: Sam discovers that Alisha’s motive isn’t loyalty to him, but a desire to be with him, and in a moment of desperate self-defense, Sam kills Alisha.

To avoid the consequences of Alisha’s murder, the pair tries to pin the crime on the dead Gaurav. They reach Alisha’s house to find police presence and a body being prepared for the morgue. Sam, disguised in Gaurav’s clothes, steals the body from the morgue and, with Ramona, buries him in a graveyard before dumping the corpse into the sea. The police ultimately indict Gaurav for Alisha’s murder—an outcome that suits their scheme only briefly.

With the immediate threat behind them, Sam and Ramona resume their Love Games. Ramona discovers a card in the car identifying Sam as the London CEO of his father’s company, hinting that his escape might be possible. Just as she rushes to call him, Alisha steps from the shadows and hands her a phone displaying a video message in which Sam asserts that two lovers can kill their hindrances to be together. It’s then revealed that Alisha orchestrated the entire sequence, not out of care for Sam’s game, but because she wanted to be with him. With Ramona’s danger to their plan eliminated by the same justice she sought, Alisha shoots Ramona, revealing that she is effectively beyond the reach of legal consequences—her death being the legal loophole she counted on.

In a final twist, Alisha reveals that she never truly cared for the games; she wanted a life with Sam. The lovers hatch a fresh plan, one that includes faking Alisha’s death again to re-enter society under new identities. She takes a dose that paralyzes her body for a few hours, is buried, and later retrieved by her father. A new passport, a transformed appearance, and a wig-and-contact-lens makeover allow her to slip aboard a flight to London beside Sam. The film ends with Sam and Alisha, now known as Riya, heading to London to start anew, victorious in their own version of the game and hopeful for a peaceful life together away from the chaos of the original Love Games.