Mukesh Chhabra seems to have done a fine job with the casting and the choices are all more or less spot on.
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The locations are wonderful and the ‘pahadi’ feel literally makes you want to visit the spot and full marks for Gavemic Ary’s cinematography which doesn’t get gimmicky at all though there was the danger of getting into it, given the premise. Let me now talk about what worked for me in the film. What happens from thereon, does he get successful and how does he manage to straddle between his regular life as Rajaram and his alter ego as Mastram is what the rest of the film is all about. And Rajaram becomes “Mastram” for a whole new generation of readers who go on to devour his writing.
And thus what starts of on a lark goes to become a trend in the annals of Hindi literature in the form of erotica. Initially reluctant, Rajaram soon realizes that this could be his claim to success as a writer and make him financially successful as well.
But that’s when he meets Purohit ( Vinod Nahardih) and his brother-in-law Bharti ( Akash Dahiya), a small time publisher duo who ask him to spice up his writings with some ‘masala’ to make it appealing to the readers. Rajaram doesn’t seem to meet much success in terms of getting a publisher to support his writings. Renu supports his decision wholeheartedly, though his own friend and colleague ( Istiyak Khan) isn’t too sure if he did the right thing. Rajaram continues to straddle between his job and his writing till one day he is forced to quit his job and focus on writing alone. To Rajaram’s surprise Renu is more than happy to know of his writing aspirations and encourages him completely. His uncle wants to get him married and while he’s a little reluctant initially thinking of his future plans etc, he does give in and gets married to the charming Renu ( Tara-Alisha Berry). Rajaram (Rahul Bagga) is a qualified young man with a bank job, but someone who is itching to give up his job and become a full time writer, with Delhi being his dream destination. Especially considering the history behind Mastram, how could one not look forward to the film? Unfortunately I couldn’t watch the film during the screening at Mumbai Film Festival 2013 (MAMI) and hence was looking forward to its theatrical release.Īkhilesh Jaiswal who had already clarified that this is a fictional biography of the iconic Mastram, sets his tale in a small town somewhere in Himachal Pradesh in the early 1980’s. Hence when I heard of Mastram becoming a subject for a full length feature film I was more than excited. With the internet and its virtual environment developing faster than the real World porn reading too graduated to the online World, with the Desibaba’s, Doodhwali’s and Literotica’s ruling the roost in their own ways. And when it came to porn fiction how can I forget the books of authors like Nancy Friday for example, a rage earlier :). Like everyone else even I have sneaked around and discovered the treasure trove of Playboy, Debonair and other such stuff at my cousin’s place :). I must confess that I have never ever read a single issue of Mastram (but I’ve seen the books in way too many book shops in various places) and by saying this I’m not trying to adopt a holier than thou attitude. But is it really so? Does the film actually do justice to this lovely premise? Does the end result satisfy completely? Considering that nothing till date is known of the true identity of the author or the publisher behind brand “Mastram”, wouldn’t it have sounded exciting for people to try and make a film on this particular premise? Well at least on paper this looks like a winner all the way and thus director Akhilesh Jaiswal (one of the writers of Gangs of Wasseypur), producers Ajay Rai and Sanjeev Singh Pal must have completely believed that the script available in their hands (written by Akhilesh Jaiswal himself along with Gunjan Saxena) was a recipe for success. And Mastram is an entity often referred to as the “baap of Hindi porn writing”, a name that has for the last 3 decades or so been catering to male fantasies in the Hindi belt. Porn fiction is something that has been around us for time immemorial in some form or the other.
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