Lust Stories 2 (2023) Plot Summary

On paper, Arjun and Veda are the perfect couple. They share the same goals and ambitions, and come from similar professional and family backgrounds. Their parents happily meet to arrange their match, but Veda’s grandmother (dadi) refuses their union. She wants the couple to have sex first - despite premarital sex historically being taboo in India - so that they can be sure they have sexual chemistry. Dadi says their marriage will fall apart without it. Arjun and Veda kiss in his car, and after a night of clubbing, have sex in a hotel. Veda confesses to dadi in the morning that she did not orgasm. Dadi encourages Veda to keep trying, and after many nights together, both Arjun and Veda claim to have successfully attained climax. They believe they are now ready for marriage. Dadi is pleased with this news, and consents to their union.

Isihita lives alone in a large apartment. One afternoon, she comes home to find her maid, Seema, having sex with her husband in her bed. Rather than confront them, Ishita hides in a closet. She masturbates herself to sleep that night. Realising she gets pleasure from being a voyeur, she ‘joins’ their daily ritual and observes them having sex everyday. Seema is alerted to Ishita’s spying habit through a mirror, but says nothing to her or her husband. She starts taking pleasure in being watched. One afternoon, both women are forced to confront each other in the apartment. They argue wildly, and Seema is fired. On a grocery run, both women bump into each other. Neither has successfully moved on from their arrangement. Unspoken words are exchanged, and the ‘ritual’ resumes the next day as Seema is re-hired.

Vijay has a strained relationship with his wife, Anu. While videocalling from his car, he crashes. He seeks help in a nearby village, where he hears a familiar voice - his ex-wife, Shanti’s - who mysteriously disappeared many years ago. Shanti suggests Vijay should leave or it might “get late”, but he refuses. They discuss her disappearance, and Vijay reveals he married Anu soon after, also inheriting his new father-in-law’s company. He and Shanti have sex, and she mentions the pregnancy test she took before her disappearance. It comes to light that Vijay planned her death/disappearance for a better life with Anu. Shanti confronts him, but he kills her again, then escapes to his car. Outside, onlookers are removing his limp body from the crash. Shanti (her ghost) reappears; Vijay realises he has died, and starts to scream.

While returning to his palace, disgraced aging prince, Suraj, spots his palace-maid walking home alone. He blocks her path, then drags her into nearby fields to rape her. The maid stops coming to work, forcing Suraj’s wife, Devyani, to hire a replacement. She hears of a prostitute, who recently contracted HIV after having sex with a client, and decides to hire her. Devyani hopes Suraj will learn a lesson, when the disease passes to him too. Rekha, the former prostitute, immediately catches Suraj’s attention as she mops the palace floor and washes clothes out in the open. Suraj summons her on the pretext of needing a massage, then offers her alcohol. In her inebriated state, he tries to disrobe her by taking off her blouse. However, Ankur (Devyani’s son from another partner) walks in at the same time, forcing Suraj to leave. He spends the evening drinking heavily. At night, sounds fill the palace of Rekha moaning with passion. Devyani assumes Suraj is forcing himself on to Rekha, but he is intoxicated and passed out in the courtyard. In horror, Devyani realises that Rekha is having sex with Ankur, her son and the only other male in the house, who is unaware of her having HIV.