Lust Stories (2018)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Depicted as a freedom of expression but only in the interest of making business similar to porn categories most visited or viewed. Definitely not for people who are conservative. Movie to destroy all possible relationships and encourage weird lifestyles. Can't expect anything better from the directors.

4 short stories. The first has a lady college teacher who is possibly undergoing counseling, because of her sexual predilections. She is neurotic, a stalker and a cougar to boot. Well played by Radhika Apte. The second short is the best of the lot, with Bhumi Pednekar excelling in her role. Almost no dialogues, yet one can empathize with the lead characters. The third is perhaps the worst. Slurred dialogues ad infinitum, No plot and a very unpleasant looking Manisha Koirala, who is full of attitude. The fourth: Confused fare, from who else but Karan Johar, who seems permanently divorced from reality in his films. So it is a story based in Lucknow (one fleeting shot of the city's skyline is enough), where there is a rather fancy school, which only has 2 lady teachers (the rest are nowhere to be seen), a slow-witted Principal and few students. These two teachers are always dressed most inappropriately (but then it is Karan Johar!!), with sex on their minds. While one takes the help of a vibrator to relieve herself, the other takes the path of matrimony. So what happens when the second one also feels that a vibrator can be better than her imbecile husband? That is what the story is all about. The idea of film anthologies, minus song and dance routines is always welcome. It takes away the tedium of watching boring films. But this one disappoints as it takes a desultory look at a very serious and interesting subject. See the second story and walk out.

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.