Lust Stories 3 arrives on Netflix on Friday, September 18, 2026. The third film in the anthology brings four new stories from Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, Shakun Batra and Vishal Bhardwaj, with an ensemble led by Radhika Apte, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aditi Rao Hydari and Vijay Varma. Netflix has revealed the date and creative team, but it has not yet matched the actors to the four stories.
Quick facts
| OTT release date | September 18, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Platform | Netflix |
| Format | Indian anthology film with four stories |
| Directors | Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, Shakun Batra and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Announced cast | Radhika Apte, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aditi Rao Hydari, Radhika Madan, Sana Thampi, Vijay Varma, Abhishek Banerjee, Siddharth, Ali Fazal and Gurfateh Pirzada |
| Production | RSVP and Flying Unicorn Entertainment |
| Trailer | Not released yet |
When does Lust Stories 3 release on Netflix?
Lust Stories 3 will stream on Netflix from September 18, 2026. Netflix India announced the date in a playful cast-led reveal rather than a conventional trailer.
Netflix is presenting the project as one anthology film containing four shorts, not as a weekly series. No episode schedule is needed, but the platform has not published an exact India launch time. For now, the useful plan is simple: look for the complete anthology on Netflix on September 18.
What is Lust Stories 3 about?
The anthology returns to its central subject, intimacy, but Netflix is framing desire as a route into questions of power, vulnerability, agency, compromise and the feelings people leave unspoken. The four filmmakers are expected to approach that shared idea through separate characters and worlds.
“Each story offers a unique perspective on intimacy and relationships, reflecting the signature storytelling style of its filmmaker while collectively celebrating the complexity, contradictions and emotional truths that define human connection. With four distinct voices and four unforgettable worlds, Lust Stories 3 continues the anthology’s legacy of telling stories that resonate long after the credits roll.”
Netflix’s current official description
That is the broad synopsis for the film as a whole. Netflix has not released the four individual story summaries, character names or the order in which the segments will appear. Any more specific plot breakdown would be premature until the trailer or segment details arrive.
Who directs the four stories?
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Kiran Rao
- Shakun Batra
- Vishal Bhardwaj
The attraction here is not merely four prominent names on one poster. Motwane, Rao, Batra and Bhardwaj have notably different dramatic instincts, which gives the anthology room to move between discomfort, humour, tenderness and darker emotional territory without forcing all four films into one tone.
Netflix has not announced which director is working with which actors. That separation matters: cast billing and the order of faces in the announcement video do not establish the four segment line-ups. This page will add those pairings only after Netflix identifies them.
Complete announced cast
- Radhika Apte
- Konkona Sen Sharma
- Aditi Rao Hydari
- Radhika Madan
- Sana Thampi
- Vijay Varma
- Abhishek Banerjee
- Siddharth
- Ali Fazal
- Gurfateh Pirzada
This is the full ensemble named in the release announcement. Character names and story assignments remain under wraps. Konkona Sen Sharma’s presence is an especially interesting franchise turn: she directed one of the four films in Lust Stories 2 and now returns as a performer in the third instalment.
Who is producing Lust Stories 3?
Lust Stories 3 is produced by RSVP and Flying Unicorn Entertainment. Ronnie Screwvala represented RSVP in the announcement, while Ashi Dua spoke for Flying Unicorn Entertainment. Both companies are returning to the Netflix anthology format built around different filmmakers interpreting one shared emotional theme.
How the third film fits the anthology
The original Lust Stories premiered in 2018 with films by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar. Lust Stories 2 followed in 2023 with R. Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Amit Ravindernath Sharma and Sujoy Ghosh behind its four segments.
The third edition keeps the four-director structure but resets the creative line-up. That makes it approachable without a recap: these are standalone shorts connected by theme, not a continuing storyline. Watching the earlier films can show how the franchise has handled desire and relationships before, but it is not a prerequisite for the new anthology.
What Netflix has not revealed yet
- The official full trailer
- The four story titles and individual synopses
- Director-and-cast pairings for each segment
- Character names
- The anthology’s total runtime
- Confirmed audio and subtitle options
The biggest missing piece is the pairing map. Once Netflix shows which actors belong to each director’s story, the ensemble will become much easier to read than one long cast list. We will update this hub with the trailer, segment summaries and confirmed pairings as they are released.