Pakhi ( Divya Singh) , a small-town girl, wants the good things in life. She’s willing to do anything to get them, and is not apologetic about it. She has already shed the middle-class mentality. Now, she wants to shed the tag too, and be rich. How, you ask? By trapping a rich guy, of course! She doesn’t want to work for wealth. While she is studying to be an air hostess, she wants the moolah asap. She ends up meeting a wealthy hunk named Raj ( Rajbeer Singh) , who loves her like crazy and wants to marry her. Pakhi agrees and dumps her clingy fiancee like he’s carrying a virus. She and Raj then take a weekend trip to the latter’s farmhouse where they meet his friend/brother Vir ( Akshay Rangshahi) , and things start to get really weird.
There are sex thrillers and there are psycho thrillers. Ishq Junoon is a hybrid of the two, which exists in a very strange territory. But it’s more funny-strange than scary-strange. And most times, right-out weird. In the film, orphans are adopted as house helps. A grown woman makes love to two teenage boys. A lingerie sniffing pervert who only speaks in a baritone. A steroid-laden loverboy whose idea of a threesome is not a planned/chance encounter, but marriage. And since we’re on the subject, Ishq Junoon, which has been promoted as ‘India’s first threesome film’, has no threesomes in it. None! There’s one that happens in a dream sequence and that’s it.
The movie had its posters burnt for promoting threesomes and hurting national morals. They shouldn’t have, because the view the film takes of the ménage à trois is so dark, promoting the idea is the last thing that it does.