Margarita with a Straw (2014)
2014A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy cheats on her girlfriend with a guy who is assigned to help her in her creative writing class.
Archives: Movies
Lust, Caution (2007)
2007A Japanese collaborator starts an affair with a businessman’s young wife, but that is just from his perspective, as people may not be who they are in an attempt to assassinate him.
One Night Stand (2016)
2016A married guy has a one-night stand with a chick, finding out later that she’s the wife of a rich businessman.
Ajeeb Daastaans (2021)
2021An anthology of four stories that explore the surprising ways in which unexpected catalysts inflame the uncomfortable emotions simmering under fractured relationships. First story Babloo (Jaideep Ahlawat) marries Lipakshi (Fatima Sana Shaikh) but tells her that he loves someone else so he will never sleep with her. Lipakshi, becomes defined by her unsatisfied sexual needs and roams around her mansion flirting with any male in sight. Babloo ignores her hypersexual behaviour, but if any man […]
Sexaholic (2016)
2016A rich house wife, played by Shama Sikander, confesses to her husband that she has slept with 20 men in 7 months. They go for medical help, which does not work and she worsens, descends into madness and ends up in a mental hospital. .
Jism (2003)
2003Kabir Lal is an alcoholic lawyer whose life is looking as if going down the drain. One morning he sees a stunningly attractive woman on a beach and is instantly enamored by her. By chance he sees her again in a restaurant and offers to buy her a drink. In the process he learns that her name is Sonia and she is married. Unable to resist, he asks her whether she would show him her […]
B.A. Pass (2012)
2012Taken in reluctantly by his aunt after being orphaned, Mukesh seems destined to live a life of humiliation and quiet desperation, until one day he encounters bored housewife Sarika (Chak De India’s Shilpa Shukla), who seduces him Mrs. Robinson-style. What starts off as an illicit affair quickly spirals into a dangerous web of prostitution and deceit, and we’re mostly transfixed by this tale of innocence lost and conscience compromised.
Lust Stories
2018An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
Race
2008A wife goes to her brother-in-law for comfort when her alcoholic husband won’t change his ways. But things are not what they seem at first glance and there are plot twists along the way.
Aastha: In the Prison of Spring
1997Aastha: In the Prison of Spring is a story of a lower middle class happy nuclear family. The wife gets involved in prostitution, owing to the not-so-good financial condition of the family. It is the story of the guilt that comes with the money and the cobweb that such a route entails that it’s quite an effort to come out of the profession once one enters it. Mansi and Amar have been married for years, […]