Vikram Bhatt�s love-sex series Twisted has set a bench mark with respect to desi thrillers. After being shocked and awed by Nia Sharma�s extremely bold avatar in Season 1, the curiosity to see more of Nia in the sensuous avatar of the sexy model Aliyah Mukherjee has always been there!!

So how have Producer and Writer Vikram Bhatt and Nia taken the character to the next big level in Season 2? This was the big question that lingered on our minds as we sat to watch Twisted 2.

Checking out the episodes, now streaming on VB on the Web, we could surmise that it follows the template of most American shows, where subsequent seasons always began on a high.

Aliyah Mukherjee (Nia) who had fooled the law in Season 1 with her masterstroke plan of killing Ranbir Raichand (Namit Khanna) is now shown in trouble. Cop Aryan Mathur (Rrahul Raj) who could not nail her then is a totally frustrated soul, an alcoholic too.

Here starts the game between Aliyah and the cop turned loner Aryan, wherein the latter is hellbent on putting the former behind bars for a crime she has not done!! Hence, he plans and plots the death of Aliyah�s drunken boy friend!!

The best part is that Aryan announces the clash when he confronts Aliyah and reveals his motive!! The scene was indeed special�

The big change in Season 2 is the role of the female cop Arunima (Dilnaz Irani) who is actually a new introduction!! A tough role to play this, as she is a good friend and sympathizer of Aryan, but when it comes to her work, is a tough task master!!

As Vikram Bhatt�s team has been saying time and again, this makes for a crime triangle of sorts, where we have Aliyah who has escaped the law after killing many people (Season 1), Aryan who has commited a crime himself and Arunima who is put on duty to solve this high-profile case.

The story and screenplay are catchy and gets us quickly into the cat and mouse game!!

Initially what starts as a game between Aryan and Aliyah, turns when the two of them shake hands with love hitting them wild!!

Yes, for all the viewers who missed a steamy love story in Season 1, this is the biggest plus!! Though Ranbir and Aliyah provided for some hot sequences in the earlier season, there was no basic plot underlining love. So this comes as a breath of fresh air.. However the love story defo gets twisted, as the basic foundation has been laid around deceit, revenge and eagerness to put the other behind bars.

Must say, Aryan and Aliyah (who never ever were on the same page in Season 1) suddenly get to see love for each other� Their chemistry simply raises the bar, as we are provided with quite a lot of sensuous smooch, bed-scenes etc. But everytime the duo made love, we were forced to think who will double cross the other!! Well, that�s the beauty of the plot, must say�

But does anyone get double-crossed? Considering Aliyah�s twisted nature, we believed that she will be the one who will cross the lines of love and again go towards vengeance. Must say, the story takes a very interesting turn here�

And all that is left for the lovers is to put in the factor of belief and trust into their love story. Will Aryan and Aaliyah be able to do this? We do not want to reveal the end for those who have not watched it yet�.

The name of the game is linked more to the shock value!! And get ready for lot of those here.

Nia looks super hot in her portrayal of a lady who keeps her poise, when the chips are down. Must say, Nia excels in Season 2, and sets a new benchmark for herself!! She gives her best to the romantic scenes as well as the ones where she is shown playing her mind games.

We are extremely impressed with the dare that Nia has shown in presenting this complex character of Aliyah. We hope other TV actresses could pick a leaf from Nia�a book and drop their on-screen inhibitions and play dare bare characters with elan.

Rrahul Raj who had his own restricted movements as a cop in his last outing has come out of the shell really well in Season 2. As the alcoholic whose aim to put Aliyah behind bars suddenly turns into obsessive love which later hits the calm shores of being in love, Rrahul has put in his best!!

A special mention here for Dilnaz Irani as she has carried out the role of Arunima to the best of her abilities� She�s strong, she�s a stunner herself, and she confronts and hits back at the Aryan � Aaliyah plan with elan!! The only thing we found repetitive in her act was her facial expression, every time her investigation hit a roadblock. And how we wish she could have used a lesser intimidating color on her lips!!

Actors Veebha Anand as Rashi, Ambrish Srivastava as the side-kick officer Iqbal, Neeraj Malaviya as Sanjay have done a good job as well!!

But the one thing that Season 2 fell short of, according to us, was in the extent of complexity the basic plot had. After all, we tend to compare it with Season 1, wherein the web of complexity between all the characters was deeper and more intriguing. At one point of time, with Aryan and Aaliyah joining hands, the face-off was rather clear and transparent, with the game being only against the law and police.

One more thing that turned us off was the constant use of the �F� word in some scenes. Had it been used once or twice, it was fine but here it seemed jarring to the ear!!

Vikram Bhatt�s a past master of thriller genre; no wonder the cinematography seemed perfect, with the scenes flowing easily. And yes, you don�t look at the clock and get eager to watch the next episode pretty soon!! The Director Anupam Santosh Saroj has come of age with Twisted 2, we must say!! Not that he did not do his job well in Season 1� but the way he has executed the final product here has been commendable.

Twisted 2 has opened up to a great response notching more than 2 million views in the very first week of its streaming. Word of mouth and the curiosity of viewers to know where the story proceeds in Season 2, will only double up on the views in the near future�

Lastly, the ending was certainly unexpected, but when it came, it brought a smile on our faces!! And the way it ended, seems like it has laid a good enough platform for the Season 3 to be built upon�. Again we have forced ourselves to not give out the ending. For those who have not yet watched it, do watch it�


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Lust Stories review: Opens door into Indian middle-class' sexual consciousness
For exploring what goes on behind those doors of middle-class bedrooms, this omnibus deserves an ovation
Movie Title
Lust Stories

Director
Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar

Star Cast
Radhika Apte, Akash Thosar, Bhumi Pednekar, Neil Bhoopalam, Manisha Koirala, Jaideep Ahlawat, Sanjay Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Vicky Kaushal, Neha Dhupia
Vibrators and self-pleasuring seem to have seeped into the cinematic consciousness of India. Barely had Swara Bhaskar finished her business in Veere Di Wedding, that the very pretty Kiara Advani playing a sexually repressed wife shocks her in-laws by getting her own pleasure without the help of a man.

The man of the house be damned.

But oops, I am jumping the loaded gun. This orgasmic omnibus opens with the weakest story story of the lot. Anurag Kashyap's story ploughs through the sexual escapades of one of the most unlikeable female heroines I've seen in recent times. Radhika Apte plays the sexually active Kalindi, a college lecturer with the hots for her virgin student Akash Thosar who remains virgin no more after she finishes with him.


Frankly, Kalinda leaves us the audience feeling soiled and used too. She is brash, brassy, over-sexed and filled with intellectual pretensions that border on delusional megalomania. The part is perfect for Apte who now owns the space allotted to 'sexually savvy' and empowered women in our films.

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Kashyap gives Apte a free rein. She bullies her lovers (there are three of them, one of whom is invisible and another who much to the script's amusement, asks Apte if she would like to "fornicate"), has her way with everyone and thinks she is so cool engaging in Brechtian dialogues with the camera.

Kashyap probably wanted us to hate Kalinda. He succeeds. Lamentably, the storytelling also appears unhinged and self-indulgent.

After hearing Apte's yak-yak on cerebral fornicating, it is a blessed relief to come to Zoya Akhtar's story where Bhumi Pedneker blossoms into an actress of substance.

Playing a house-help who is helping her unmarried single employer (Neil Bhoopalan) with his bucket-�lust', Bhumi hardly speaks.

Zoya tracks her unspoken movement through the apartment which she knows intimately, but can never own as her employer-lover's prospective bride descends on the �1 BKH' apartment with her folks, reminding her of her place in the domestic hierarchy.

There is a kind of unvarnished elegance in Zoya's delineation of domesticity. And in the way she makes the tea and serves her master, Pedneker shows us the complex dynamics of the household. If God lies in the details, this segment is a temple of titillation. It is a heartbreaking piece and probably Zoya's gentlest work to date.

Dibakar Banerjee does an Ingmar Bergman-Basu Bhattacharya portrait-from-a-fractured-marriage in the third story where lust is not a predominant impulse. Desolation is.

And who better equipped than Manisha Koirala to project the hurt and wounded pride of a wife who has found comfort in her husband's best friend's arms?

Banerjee uses a lot of words to heal wounds in the fractured relationship. No, make that two fractured relationships where somehow the hurt never comes across strongly.

The director builds a bewildering wall around the triangular relationship. The three-way conversation is fraught with unspoken accusations and unexplored hurt. It all boils up to a simmer of discontent that just stops short of brimming over. Doing scenes from a crumbling marriage is a new domain for Banerjee. He does it with much empathy and some amount of self- consciousness.

I found the fourth story to be the hardest to define. Clearly, Karan Johar enjoys the orgasmic beat much more than the other three directors. His story is an unabashed ode to the Big O, though a little broad and tactless in the way it makes the self-pleasuring vibrator seem like a tool of sexual liberation. Sending the warrior queen to the battle field with a sword... It is really not that simple.
Kiara Advani is strikingly beautiful and wholly likable as the repressed wife, while Vicky Kaushal as her nerdy self-righteous 'sanskaari' husband is outstanding in making his annoying character endearing. But much of Karan's pontification on a women's desires and men's character is laboured in their bumper-sticker wisdom.

Full credit to Karan and all the other three directors of Lust Stories for opening that door into the Indian middle-class' sexual consciousness where there lurks a lust for self-fulfilment, seldom explored, scarcely realised. For exploring what goes on behind those doors of middle-class bedrooms, this omnibus deserves an ovation.

�Ek to main itny horny hoon aur wahan mere saath koi kuchh karna hi nahin chahta�

In one of the episodes of AltBalaji�s web series, Ragini MMS Returns, the self-obsessed Sonia (Katie Iqbal � Veronica meets Poo Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham), says this in all earnestness, to a handsome, sexy, young guy.
Dressed like a Barbie doll topped with huge, shiny pearls, in a short, lacy pink dress, she turns around provocatively. (She looks super hot but her zero expression is such a dampener).

He spanks her lightly, on her bottom and says, �You bad, bad girl.� (Such bad, bad dialogue delivery�.If only he did not sound more flat than a Doordarshan newsreader of yore.)

Her dress slips out to reveal a hotter bod in a gorgeous, pink corset. He picks her up and lays her down on a pool table. Oooo�the game is warming up. He takes her hand and guides it downwards to his jean clad��.CUT! (Please note: the woman exposes more skin than the man).

"Exam �hard� hai", she purrs. And opens her full, red mouth in a perfect O. They kiss. A stiletto shoe kicks a ball into the table net.

The otherwise, well executed steamy scene, ends up being funny, thanks to the amateurish acting. Yet, it is far better than the much hyped scene between the central characters of Ragini (Karishma Sharma) and Rahul (Siddharth Gupta) who kiss more like frantic teenagers than passionate lovers.

And oh, what happened to the ghost who kills people who have sex? Never mind.

�NO SEX�.  Those were the doctor paranormal ghostbusters ( Rakshanda Khan with sexy, pink rimmed spectacles) orders as seen in the previous episode. And definitely, �NO SEX AFTER WATCHING MMS�. But these orders were given to a bunch of hormone-driven college students with hot bodies, zero brains and childish voices. How can they possibly resist watching MMS videos and then not tear off each other�s clothes even if it comes at the price of death at the hands of a frustrated ghost??

In the first six episodes as mentioned in the review here, a college called MMS is haunted and a CD with a MMS scandal keeps appearing out of nowhere. People who watch it die soon after and eventually, a paranormal specialist warns everyone against sex. As one of the students puts it, she is more of a �mood buster� than a "ghost buster�.

So what do they do? They try to get rid of the ghost with plenty of screaming and burning skeletons because apparently the ghost stays upset until its unfinished cremation rites are performed.

And of course, the moment the students believe the spirit has been put to rest, they party and get ready to strip. And how!

Meanwhile, getting back to the sketchy skeleton of the horror story plot, a past in the college is revealed. Some fabulous shots of Ragini seen walking alone at night, framed between two tree branches and getting sucked right into a hole, the dark outdoors, black smoke swooshing around and doors suddenly slamming shut are enticingly chilling enough to keep you hooked.

The cinematography (Hanoz VK and Anubhav Bansal)  gets better with each episode and the performances gets worse and unintentionally funny. At one point in the final episode, the school principal � the only man in the frame � is flanked on both sides by scared women at a really crucial juncture. But the women squeal so badly and the man looks more flummoxed than scared that the entire shot looks straight out of a slapstick comedy than a horror flick.

More hilarious drama is seen in bathrooms with cat fights where a bright pink bra is used to swing Sonia around in circles. This kind of a college does not exist in even Karan Johar�s wildest fantasy. As for a parallel track, which had started off with the sultry Riya Sen atop her groom-to-be, appears ever so briefly with a forced connection to the main plot.

But wait, do not just give up yet. A new character enters the scene. There is a super, hot �climax� scene in the final episode which is more suspense-worthy than the the mystery behind the deaths. The consequence of the final sex act, does not quite make sense but who cares? Karishma Sharma in red, lacy undies and another bare body may make you sweat more than skulls in red nauvari sarees. The erotica mercury shoots up like never before on Indian screen. Ragini MMS Returns season 1 is the new and hilarious 50 Shades of Indian Grey.

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Character Web series
Ragini MMS Returns (2017)
Ragini 2 Karishma Sharma
Rahul Siddharth Gupta
Simran Riya Sen

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