Lust Stories (2018)

Four short films by four of India's biggest directors exploring love, sex and relationships in modern India.

Directors:

Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee

Writers:

Radhika Apte (segment), Dibakar Banerjee (segment)

Stars:

Radhika Apte, Bhumi Pednekar, Kiara Advani

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Radhika Apte	...	Kalindi (Anurag Kashyap's segment)
Bhumi Pednekar	...	Sudha (Zoya Akhtar's segment)
Kiara Advani	...	Megha (Karan Johar's segment)
Vicky Kaushal	...	Paras (Karan Johar's segment)
Manisha Koirala	...	Reena (Dibakar Banerjee's segment)
Sanjay Kapoor	...	Salman (Dibakar Banerjee's segment)
Anjuman Saxena	...	Megha's mom
Neil Bhoopalam	...	Ajit (Zoya Akhtar's segment)
Jaideep Ahlawat	...	Sudhir (Dibakar Banerjee's segment)
Akash Thosar	...	Tejas (Anurag Kashyap's segment)
Neha Dhupia	...	Rekha (Karan Johar's segment)
Randeep Jha	...	Neeraj (Anurag Kashyap's segment)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Abdul Quadir Amin	...	Amin
Nikita Dutta	...	Ajit's Bride (Zoya Akhtar's segment)
Ridhi Khakhar	...	Natasha

Storyline

Four short films by four of India's biggest directors exploring love, sex and relationships in modern India.

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Plot Keywords:

netflix india | anthology | anthology film | netflix | sexual relationships | 

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Taglines:

Discover love and everything in between

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Turning point for Kiara Advani.

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Connections

Follows Bombay Talkies (2013)

User Reviews

Capsule Review: Lust Stories (4 Stars)

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.

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

15 June 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lust Stories

Filming Locations:

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Skywalk Films, Flying Unicorn Entertainment, RSVP

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Color