Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Spartan Home Enterta
• VHS Release Date: August 28, 2001
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005MEXW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #529,243 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1.0 out of 5 stars more fetishy mess!, June 22, 2005

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tales of the Kama Sutra 2 - Monsoon (DVD)

This film supposedly takes place in India, but it says absolutely nothing about the Kama Sutra or its principles. I guess in some Western minds, India + sex = Kama Sutra. It would be useful for viewers to read bell hooks' "Eating the Other" in which she says people of color and places outside of the West are thrust to the margins and are portrayed as solely for the purpose of Westerners/whites.

This was almost like a Harlequin romance novel set to film. Surprisingly (and possibly disappointingly), this was softer than the soft core first "Tales from the Kama Sutra." This is supposed to show two star-crossed lovers reuniting, in which the Capulets and Montagues are replaced by Westerners/whites and Orientals/Indians. (Oops! I guess they probably take a cue from "West Side Story" in this arena.) This is a pure B movie with bad acting, bad fight scenes, etc.

This film tries to have its cake and eat it too. On the one hand, it wants to bring the masculine West and the feminine East together in the pairing of the white male protagonist and the Indian female love interest. However, this actress is so light-skinned, you would barely know she is not from the West. In order to compensate for that, the film often shows her wearing bracelets, bendis, and saris. This film wants to show interracial love, but also not show it. There are plenty of talented South Asian actresses with rich nutmeg or chocolate-colored skin (think of the artists in "Bend It like Beckham," "Fire," or "My Beautiful Launderette," for example) that they could have hired but did not. The male lead has a body similar to the adult star Earl Slate.

In one scene, the viewers see the male protagonist with his white priest/DEA agent buddy. In the next scene, one sees the Indian male "villain" making a drug deal with a Columbian who has a stereotypical raspy voice like Don Corleone. In many ways, this film portrays white men as good and men of color as evil. Questions of colonialism, neocolonialism, and the exploitation of peoples of color never get brought up in this work which celebrates white men defeating men of color and having their choice of any woman (whether white or of color) as their reward.

This one thing that I appreciated about this disc is that it had foreign language subtitles. If this cheap movie that you would only see on Showtime late, late at night can afford this feature, so should many great documentaries, provocative independent films, and big-budget Hollywood fodder.