By Suryakanta Biswal

Starring Sabyasachi, Hari, Bijay Mohanty, Kuna Tripathy, Snigdha Mohanty

Directed By Rahat Kurddushi

Rating ***

Love.Com is a film which is based on the story of rivalry between two families. Bijay Mohanty and his wife Tandra Ray are heads of one family. They have one son Sabyasachi. Another family is headed by Snigdha Mohanty. She has three sons and a daughter Megha Ghosh. Kuna Tripathy is Snigdha's brother-in-law.

As luck would have it, Sabyasachi and Megha are studying in the same college. Here starts the game. Both Sabya and Megha pretend to fall in love with each other to seek revenge for their respective families. And to aid in all the pranks comes Sabya's best friend, the troublemakerHarihara Mohapatra.

But somewhere down the line, all this play becomes serious and the two actually begin to develop true feelings for each other.

Love.Com can be divided into two parts. The first half focuses on comical situations; the humour is the type that would appeal to the common man instantly. The post-interval portions do start on a similar note, but the narrative changes tracks gradually. It now becomes a clash of two egos and the game of one-upmanship takes over. Actually, the story starts moving in an altogether new zone and that's where things stagnate.

At the end what happens for that you've to see the film. You can see the film for Harihara Mohapatra's brilliant comic timing, good music, marvellous camera work. Sabyasachi and Megha Ghosh have done a good job. The story is mostly influenced by the hit Hindi Film HULCHUL which is also a remake of the Malayalam hit GODFATHER.