![]() ![]() I remember boys waiting for the new Mastrams to arrive,” he says. He got his first-ever Mastram from a friend who passed it on with glowing reviews. But his introduction to the books dates back to his teenage years in Bhopal. ![]() ![]() If you read it you’ll be like, ‘Oh shit, what’s happening’,” he says, with a slight blush.Ībout two years ago, Jaiswal bought 30 Mastram copies from a Delhi railway station to use as props for this movie. The language is very bad and the writing is too graphic. Now it is no longer erotica, it is XXX porn. As it got popular, other people started using the name Mastram to cash in on its success and the content deteriorated. “Many people who read it in the ’80s thought it was very well-written. There’s a third option as well, which is to get your hands on a copy from any small bookstore up north, where it is still available. Tau who have most likely pored over dog-eared copies hiding under their bedsheets. So you can either watch Mastram, debutante filmmaker Akhilesh Jaiswal’s fictionalised biopic of the author that releases next week, or, as the film’s controversial tagline suggests, quiz your If you weren’t an adolescent in north India between the ’80s and ’90s, chances are that you haven’t heard of Mastram, one of the most prolific writers of Hindi erotica. ![]()
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