Now, watch different stages of love in 3D

KOZHIKODE: This could shake the prudish souls off their wits. Ananga Ranga, an ancient classic erotic literature in Sanskrit, is going 3D.

Young filmmaker Rupesh Paul’s upcoming project Kamasutra 3D is a period movie based on a sex manual written by arch-poet Kalyana Malla, related to the Lodi Dynasty, which ruled Delhi from 1451 to 1526. Malla wrote the script in honour of Lad Khan, son of Ahmed Khan Lodi.


The original work was translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (he also translated Kama Sutra) in 1885 and was published as  Ananga Ranga.The eye-popping success of the recent Chinese 3D porn film Sex and Zen is a major source of inspiration for doing the project, Rupesh Paul said.“3D appears the best format to portray classic erotica, but it was hardly experimented till recently. It had remained as a tool to give the biggest jolt in horror movies. 

Nobody predicted that the Chinese stereoscopic porn would be a major hit. In fact, it outgrossed 3D film Avatar. “In the film, we are trying to give an extra dimension to the sexual positions described in the ancient treatise on the art of love,” Rupesh said.“Ananga Ranga is largely considered as refined version of Kama Sutra. Unlike it, Ananga Ranga was written for husbands and wives and was intended to show that one woman is enough for a man.“It says how a husband can promote the love for his wife through sexual pleasure and enjoy living with his wife as if he had lived with 32 different women, thus preventing the married couple from getting tired of one another.“Through the film, we try to portray that Ananga Ranga is the true Kama Sutra,” he said.The film will be an fictional adaptation of a real life incident during the Lodi Dynasty.“The story will portray Malla’s acquaintance with Prince Lad Khan, who is a Casanova, the scripting of erotic literature and the incidents that evolve after Khan’s wife decides to study the text,” he said.