![]() ![]() He writes that up, it gets into print, and gets lapped up. On his way, he has an epiphany involving a sexy woman, and clothes slithering, and much moaning and sighing. He is urged to add some "masala" and return. He gets full support from his wife (Berry), but only derision from everyone else, including the local publisher he takes his manuscript to. Rajaram (Bagga) is an earnest, bored bank official who thinks he has a great talent for writing. So I was all set for a healthy dose of smut from the film Mastram, and all kinds of intriguingly meta possibilities - the film being a fictionalised account of a "fictional" writer.īut it turns out to be much too banal. What I've got though, from an avid reader then, who is a respectable middle-aged character now, that they were the first "coming of age" of a whole generation of eager young fellows. I've only heard of these "books" but never laid my eyes on them. ![]() No one knew who the author/authors was/were, but the phenomenal popularity of the series made the "Mastram" brand name an urban legend. If you were a boy growing up in a certain kind of household or hostel in North India in the 1970s and '80s, there is a chance that you were glad-handing pulpy porn booklets, written on cheap yellow paper, by a certain gent named Mastram. ![]() Cast: Rahul Bagga, Tara-Alisha Berry, Kapil Dubey ![]()
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