Netflix has added a movie that is banned in several countries due to its graphic sex scenes on the streaming service.
The streaming giant has a diverse film selection. Whether you want to cry, laugh, or be educated - there's something for everyone.
Recently, it added an extreme and explicit movie called Gandu, a 2010 Indian film initially blocked from release in its home country.
The flick is an erotic black-and-white abstract film directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee.
Watch the trailer below:Gandu - which is translated to ‘a*****e’ in English - follows a teenage rapper who steals from his mother’s lover and then "embarks on a drug-fuelled rampage with a rickshaw puller," per the platform.
There are multiple graphic sex scenes between Gandu’s mother (Kamalika Banerjee) and her lover Dasbabu (Silajit Majumder), which the main character Gandu (Anubrata Basu) walks in on.
The movie, which is rated 18 in the UK, has a climactic scene that sees actress Rii Sen role-play a kitten, lapping at a bowl of milk. It also features explicit language, with the use of the words ‘c***’, ‘f**k’, and ‘p***y’.
Perhaps the most controversial scene is when Basu has a fully erect penis in a sex scene with co-star Sen, with the filmmaker revealing at the 2011 Slamdance Festival that the actors had real-life sex.
Mukherjee said that the pair were "good friends" who had real sex and "really went at it, in the spirit of their favorite extreme films, such as The Idiots," according to Hammer to Nail’s review from the event.
Due to the taboo nature of the film, Gandu 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.
Despite the backlash, the movie scored a 68% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and was positively reviewed by some critics.
Variety called it a "high-energy example of a rarefied genre" and a "happily transgressive rhyme-fuelled romp," while one viewer penned: "Imaginative, entertaining, shocking - probably not coming to a screen near you sadly."
"This is more a revolution than a film," a second chimed in, while another added: " I thoroughly enjoyed the frustration and the anger of the pain of this flick. Not for everyone, but tastefully shot in an [erratic] style in black and white."
Gandu is available to stream on Netflix now.
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