The fact that the multiplex audiences are now given access to pornography (albeit soft) says a lot about how far movies have come in India. Of course, Mastram is not a random pornographic film, or even a pornographic film per se; the movie brings to the silver screen the semi-fictitious character whom every man, young and old, adored and admired in the 1980s - a man who brought one's deepest fantasies to thousands of readers. And that helps in the distribution across theatres.
There has been the dispute over whether Mastram was one man or several, but since the movie follows one....