The star of the banned erotic movie that was recently added to Netflix was in a relationship with the director when she "gave real-life oral sex" in a scene.
As previously reported, the streaming service added an explicit movie called Gandu, a 2010 Indian film initially blocked from release in its home country as well as several other countries.
The title of the film translates to ‘a*****e’ in English, and follows a teenage rapper (Anubrata Basu) who steals from his mother’s lover and then "embarks on a drug-fuelled rampage with a rickshaw puller," per the platform.
Directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee, the extreme black-and-white abstract 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.
Watch the trailer below:In the controversial movie, which is rated 18 in the UK, Basu (who plays Gandu) had actual unsimulated sex with his co-star Rii Sen. During the scene, Sen performs oral sex on Basu, whose erect penis is shown to viewers.
The filmmaker revealed that the actors had real-life sex at the 2011 Slamdance Festival, telling the audience, that they were "good friends" who "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.
Now, if you think two actors having real-life sex on screen is shocking, then this next piece of information will blow your mind.
Sen, who plays multiple characters in the film, was actually in a relationship with Mukherjee at the time the oral sex scene was filmed.
Weird, right?
The actress opened up about this during an interview with Open magazine after the movie's release, revealing: “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."
Sen shared that she participated 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, Qaushiq Mukherjee, 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.”
Despite the backlash, which included some audience members reportedly walking out of the theatre, 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".
Gandu is available to watch on Netflix now.
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