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Lust Stories 3 Directors Explain Challenges Of Portraying Intimacy
Lust Stories 3 is a movie made up of four smaller stories.
The stories explore love, desire, relationships and intimacy.
Shakun Batra focuses on how couples may use intimacy as a form of power.
Vikramaditya Motwane makes his story awkward and funny.
He asked the actresses to help make sure their characters’ desires felt accurate.
The actors said intimate scenes need clear rules and boundaries.
Workshops helped some performers feel more comfortable before filming.
The movie will be available on Netflix from September 18.
Lust Stories 3 features four segments directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra, Kiran Rao and Vishal Bhardwaj.
Batra explores power dynamics between couples, while Motwane uses awkwardness and comedy to examine sex and desire.
Motwane consulted Radhika Apte and Konkona Sensharma to portray the women’s desires and intentions accurately.
Actors said intimacy workshops, clear boundaries and planned choreography helped them perform intimate scenes safely.
The anthology stars Ali Fazal, Radhika Madan, Vijay Varma, Konkona Sensharma, Radhika Apte and Abhishek Banerjee, and premieres on Netflix September 18.
- Who
- Directors Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra, Kiran Rao and Vishal Bhardwaj, along with the cast of Lust Stories 3.
- What
- The filmmakers and actors discussed the creative and practical challenges of portraying intimacy, desire and relationships on screen.
- Where
- The interview was reported from Mumbai, and the film will stream on Netflix.
- When
- The film is scheduled to debut on Netflix on September 18; the directors and actors discussed it in an interview published September 16.
- Why
- The anthology aims to examine love, lust, relationships, power dynamics and repressed desires through a contemporary lens.
Key facts
- Film
- Lust Stories 3
- Format
- Four short films in an anthology
- Directors
- Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra, Kiran Rao and Vishal Bhardwaj
- Streaming platform
- Netflix
- Release date
- September 18
- Key themes
- Love, lust, relationships, intimacy and repressed desires
- Production safeguards
- Intimacy workshops, boundaries and choreographed scenes
Quotes
Vikramaditya Motwane
Director of one of the anthology’s segments
“We’ve to show intimacy outside of sex. In our movies, even parents don’t hold, kiss each other because we’ve not grown up seeing our parents being intimate with each other. Hence we don’t see it in movies. So, we all have to start showing a little more of what a true relationship is in real life”
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“I was postpartum, I had just given birth. I would actually have never opted to work but because he (Motwane) called, I was there.”
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Sources
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