Movie with unsimulated sex acts that was banned in its own country but is still streaming on Netflix

A movie with unsimulated sex acts that was banned in its own country has been added to Netflix.

The streaming giant added Gandu, an Indian erotic black-and-white abstract film that was initially blocked from release in its home country, as well as several other countries.

The title, which translates to “a*****e” in English, follows a frustrated teenage rapper who robs his mother’s lover before going on a "drug-fuelled rampage with a rickshaw puller".

The flick features several explicit scenes, including scenes between Gandu’s mother (played by Kamalika Banerjee) and her lover Dasbabu (Silajit Majumder), which the main character (Anubrata Basu) often witnesses.

Directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee, the film didn’t get its first screening in India until almost two years after its initial release, at the Osian Film Festival in July 2012. It was then reportedly unofficially released online five years later, per Metro.

The most talked-about moment in Gandu is a climactic scene in which lead actor Basu is shown with a fully erect p***s during a sex scene with co-star Rii Sen.

At a Q&A session during the 2011 Slamdance Festival, Mukherjee said the actors were "good friends" who had real sex and "really went at it, in the spirit of their favourite extreme films, such as The Idiots," according to a review from Hammer to Nail.

Actress Was Dating Director When She Filmed Explicit Scene

If you thought two actors having real-life intimacy on screen was shocking, then this next revelation will truly blow your mind.

Sen, who portrays multiple characters in the film, was actually in a relationship with Mukherjee when the oral sex scene was filmed.

She opened up about this during an interview with Open magazine after the movie's release, saying: "I didn't have any problems at all. I have been a professional actress for 10 years now. It doesn't bother me if the camera is off or on."

The Tepantorer Math actress revealed that she took part in "physical workshops that helped us shed our inhibitions and become real," adding: "If someone were to touch my boobs, it's natural that I'd be aroused.

"But it is the aftermath that is important. How do you feel after such a shoot? I wasn't shattered or anything after I shot Gandu," she continued. "I was shooting lovemaking scenes with my co-actor that were being shot by my boyfriend. Now, how weird is that?"

The director also spoke about the scenes during an interview with the Indian Telegraph: "For Gandu, I just told my actors Anubrata and Rii that Gandu has to get superf****d in one scene. They did the rest."

Critic Reactions To The Movie

Despite the backlash, which included some audience members reportedly walking out of the theatre, the movie scored a 67% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and was positively reviewed by some viewers and critics.

Variety described it as a "high-energy example of a rarefied genre" and a "happily transgressive rhyme-fuelled romp," while a viewer said it was "imaginative, entertaining, shocking – probably not coming to a screen near you sadly."

Gandu is not on Netflix outside of the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, but US and Canadian viewers can watch it on Tubi.

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