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The Mirror, Lust stories 2

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Review by, Megha Chougule Oh, what a treat it was! A film felt like cinema after a long time. Every bit, every shot, every scene! And what can I say about performances, damn you women, you stole my heart yet again. I could feel Konkana’s presence in every frame and yet these two actors were so distinguished. I’m a very private person when it comes to intimacy but I loved to “watch” how fantasies and desires unfolded. There are so many things we want to do in our daily lives but they are put under the category of shame by someone and we have to play along. Be it just a dance in the middle of the street or having a great desire to just kiss someone in the rain. We fear so much. Here, in this film, the fear is there but when you give in to your pleasures a new journey starts, a journey of freedom. They [characters] both are helpless in some way. Seema due to her poverty can’t have privacy with her husband, Ayesha a rich single woman is too lonely to have it. The mirror gives Isheeta what ...