Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh and Amit Sharma are part of the choir, trying to whisper into the ears of a reluctant republic aphorisms about the carnal nature of attraction. But something’s clearly working even though not much is. Diversity and demographics can be touched upon at a fraction of the cost through a format that might also appeal to those who simply can’t summon marathon hours from their lives to dedicate to the punch-drunk high of binge-watching (kind of contradictory to the streaming model itself). There is probably an economic rationale behind continuing with them. Irrespective of the platform – Netflix or Prime Video – rarely has an assembly of stories managed to impress as a collective.
Streaming anthologies have always been a mixed bag. And yet, this second edition of an anthology that sparkled with promise the first time around, is a colossal, at times puzzling misfire. Which is why it makes perfect sense, at least on paper, to commission an anthology like Lust Stories - a thorny bouquet of stories that foregrounds primal instinct, without the caveat of moralizing it. It takes a village, sometimes an entire country with the reputation of unguarded morality, to usher us to a point where even talking about sex doesn’t feel like a cultural insurrection. In a scene from Netflix’s Lust Stories 2, Neena Gupta, playing an outspoken grandmother, tells her granddaughter matter-of-factly “saath wahi log rehte hain jinka sex best hoga.” It’s the kind of sex-talk you’d expect married but despondent couples to indulge in while vacationing in edgy tourist countries.
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