Photos: Vikrant Massey and Sanya Malhotra snapped during Love Hostel promotions

LOVE HOSTEL is the story of a couple on the run. Ahmed Shokeen aka Ashu (Vikrant Massey) and Jyoti Dilawar (Sanya Malhotra) reside in a town in Haryana. Both love each other and decide to marry, against the wishes of their parents as Ashu is a Muslim. His father is... currently in prison after an AK-47 gun was planted in his meat shop. Hence, he is alleged to be a terrorist. Jyoti’s grandmother, meanwhile, is Kamala Dilawar (Swaroopa Ghosh), an MLA. She and Jyoti’s family have forcefully fixed her marriage with a man from their community. Days before her marriage, Jyoti runs away with Ashu. Both approach court and get married. The judge asks them to shift to a safe house and the parents of both are told to come for the next hearing, a week later. The safe house is also called a ‘love hostel’ as all the runaway couples reside there. It is managed by a corrupt cop, Chaudhary (Sidharth Bharadwaj). On their first night at the safe house, Ashu is urgently called by Chaudhary. The cop informs him that he needs to finish his job of illegally delivering beef, which he has been doing for a certain Devi Singh. Ashu makes it clear that he wishes to leave the job. However, Chaudhary and Devi Singh insist and hence, he goes out to do the delivery. Jyoti, on the other hand, had posted a video on social media declaring that she has married Ashu and that if anything happens to her, Kamala Dilawar would be responsible. An enraged Kamala then summons Viraj Singh Dagar (Bobby Deol) to find them and bring them to her residence. Dagar is a mysterious killer who has been eliminating runaway couples successfully. As per government records, he died 7 years ago. While Ashu is away, Dagar arrives at the ‘love hostel’ and starts killing couples randomly while trying to search for Jyoti. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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