An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
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Lack of good storyline.
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
There comes a film every once in a while that tries too hard to convey a message but falls flat on its own face mostly due to a lack of substantial content and heavy doses of embellishments. Netflix's Lust Stories is one such anthology film with four 30-minute stories that aspire to break taboos associated with women's sexuality but are, in fact, purveyors of nonsense. Except for Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap hitting one or two right chords with their stories about vaginal pleasure and emotional attachment respectively, Lust Stories gasps for freshness and logic. While Johar's young housewife (Kiara Advani) is dissatisfied with her husband's performance on bed and so looks for external stimuli in a righteous way, Kashyap's teacher (Radhika Apte) is obsessed with a youngster who she had a poontang with despite telling him herself to not take it to the heart. Zoya Akhtar comes in third with her excellently acted trash about a housemaid (Bhumi Pednekar) taken for granted by her bachelor employer after they engage in some nasty sex. There's not even a sprinkle of inference you can gather from the story other than the subtle performance by the cast which also include Neil Bhoopalam. Dibakar Banerjee certainly did not get the memo as his story looks like a nonsensical excerpt from an awful book. Manisha Koirala takes cues from Banerjee to take marital decisions for her character while enjoying the mess she has made the lives of two men and vice versa. (I mean it, don't tell me otherwise.) The music and overall cast performance is good and high-energy, thanks to Netflix, but the content seems like it was concocted just to frame it with the word 'feminism' and then sent for human consumption. I get it when Johar tries to highlight the importance of women's sexuality but it does not have to be forced, just like the little humor that Lust Stories overall boasts of. Don't waste your time unless you want to have a look at how the actors look when they act 'it'. TN.
This world is made for women, this world is made to glorify the women, this world is made to care the Lust of women. This movie tried so hard to show women is the victim of LUST but revealed their own LUST. Story 1. The teacher is a slave of her own uncontrollable LUST. Grade 3.0. Story 2. The maid is the victim of LUST by her employer. Result meaningless. Grade 1.0. Story 4. A women has affair with her husband's friend and everyone know everything. Acting so good. Grade 3.5. Story 4. Women has nothing but LUST, in front of anywhere, in anywhere, in anytime. Laugh a lot although. Grade 2.5. Overall 5. Avoidable. 18+. Fun.
Story 1: Anurag Kashyap Radhika Apte is superb. She is a college teacher who is trying to woo her student (Sairat's male lead). most entertaining story of all four. story2: Zoya Akhtar Worst of all four. A guy is having sex with her maid. No information other than this. whether the sexual act is frequent? has the guy made fake promises to maid? Is maid in love with him?story 3: Dibakar One of my favorite hindi film director. Here, he made a story so boring I literally slept. Can't tell anything abt it apart from I saw Manisha Koirala and she looks good.Story 4: Karan Zohar Only story with a real potential. Over the top dialogues and forced comedy ruined it.with a series having "stories" in its tiitle is devoid of any in it. Shame.
I don't know what modern india are you talking about. Women act like who**s, acceptable. But seriously, with how much population has these things happened to out of the total population of the country? Even if you guess it is lesser than 10% the most. How is that the story of modern India? Yahan toh log bachpan se single baithe hain, I know so many such people. Anyway, it basically is again about women doing debauchery, adultery, cheating, indulging in unethical and immoral practises in the name of women orientation and empowerment. I mean "Give me a break!" I see more than 50% of fake rape cases registered daily in police stations, so many families and men ruined by registering a fake complaint and misusing the law by women in their favour. And they talk about 'empowerment', 'upliftment'! *Rubbish* BTW THAT BIT BY KARAN JOHAR WAS A COPY FROM A KATHERINE HEIGL AND GERARD BUTLER MOVIE - THE UGLY TRUTH!Anyway, it was so boring I couldn't bear to watch after half an hour! And I am the guy who hates those typical bollywood nonsense masala movies! so thats saying something. nothing more to add.