KAMA SUTRA - More About Jealousy Than Love.....

Source : Amazon Prime Video
Director: Mira Nair
No Trailer.

The cinematography is excellent as are the locales. I was interested in learning about the history of the book by that name but this movie has very little of that. Instead, the story moves back and forth between the scenes depicting unbearable jealousy of a young couple who are the rulers but have access to courtesans and lovers. While the newly married queen tries to kill herself when she discovers that her philandering husband is involved with her best friend who happens to be his courtesan; the young king gets angry and kills the young sculptor when he discovers that his courtesan is in love with that sculptor !! He cannot bear in his philandering heart that any of his woman should be in love with another man!

There are couple of scenes reproduced from the pictures one sees in the book and there are scenes where an old courtesan trains young girls[the girls seem to be too young in some scenes!!] about the art of love which I assume is the director's way of linking the story to the ancient Kama Sutra manual of love!! 

The love scenes seemed to have been created specially for the western audience in mind I believe ...Only Sareeta Chaudhary stands out as an actress, while the rest seem new to the art of acting. Meera Nair has done nicer movies ....this one seems like a film made for the Playboy channel.