#MASTRAM STORY SERIES#

#MASTRAM STORY SERIES#

This contrasted with the untamed immediacy of the sex scenes could have made for an interesting cinematic oscillation, but the whole series plays out in slow motion uncomfortable pecks and over-zealous heaves to a voiceover brimming with metaphors comparing women to CalcuttaвЂ™s succulent sweets and men to DelhiвЂ™s rock-hard lollipops. But here, it veers between the annoying and the criminal his non-consensual grabbing of a womanвЂ™s breast is treated with impunity.Д®ven MastramвЂ™s relationship with Madhu is cloyingly virginal. The lusting old man is not an issue if Badhai Ho normalized anything, it is adult lust. Mastram is an orphan and his relationship with his desperate widower uncle, that begins with a sorry sweetness, ends up becoming irredeemable. ( Gandii Baat did an interesting thing by making its series an anthology, with each episode disconnected from the previous one, so skipping ahead, or leaving the unexciting ones does nothing narratively speaking.)ДЄlso read: What Makes ALT BalajiвЂ™s Gandii Baat A Big Success?Д«ut whatвЂ™s worse is beyond the erotic scenes. Every thirty minute episode has about two ten-minute sex-scenes, choregraphed with a vigour that is the sorry love-child of Gandii Baat and an 80s love-song, like chaste boredom attempting to be a naughty adolescent. It strives to be an exciting pornographic tale but ends up as this middling erotica barely propped on a limp love story. This crisis seems to have leaked into this insufferably boring web-series. (Akhilesh Jaiswal, dialogue writer of Gangs Of Wasseypur had made a film about this mythical man similarly titled Mastram, in 2013) The Mastram brand was vexed by an identity crisis. Initially known for the poetic nature of the bookвЂ™s erotic content, over time, many other writers wrote under the same pen-name, blurring if not completely destroying the line between erotica and pornography.

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