This Hindi movie is a pretty straightforward slice-of-life story that tries to give a modern look at what it's like to be a single, professional gay man. It dives into how he understands who he is, the chances he missed out on, and the personal choices he’s made along the way. The director used three parallel timelines to tell the story, which honestly didn't make much sense to me. While the core idea was actually pretty interesting, I really feel like this would have worked way better as a short film considering the point it was trying to make. Still, it wasn't a bad watch. The plot centers on Rachit, a city professional, and his friend Shikhar as they hang out for an evening. Rachit is a polished, urban guy, while Shikhar has more of a "small-town" rustic vibe, and you can really see the contrast between them when they talk. As the night goes on, Rachit starts thinking back to some old memories from a long time ago. He remembers being an intern after college in ...
The plot is simple. Kent and Harvey have been in a relationship for 7 years. Kent has been always into orgies and in fact he met Harvey at one hosted at his place, but sparks flew and they two decided to date. Kent even had Harvey agree to an open relationship which Harvey was ok with. But no win present, Harvey has had enough and he asks Kent to stop this and that they should ficus on just them two as a couple. The duo get into a few heated yet nuanced arguments around why Kent cannot change, why Harvey thinks it is important to stop doing this and how the duo need to focus on thier town individual sex lives. Clearly the two men very much like and love each other, but 7 years later , the two want different things in life. Harvey has definitely made up his min to end the relationship if Kent cannot change his ways, but is this going to be easy for him?
The film is just under an hour and at the onset it seems like this may be a bad bad film, but it does go into nuances of the whole concept of open relationship and just puts forward one more perspective. The film doesn't take sides, but it shows us where both these individuals are coming from. As an audience, you can see both points of view and why individually they both make sense, and it's difficult to take sides. You just listen to both sides and based on your individual beliefs and your opinion on the whole concept on an open relationship, you will take away different thing from the film. Personally, I think the film would have done less with the sexual orgy scenes because somehow that took away the seriousness of the subject for me. Also with such a short run time, this could have been either a better short story or add more material to make it a proper story with a culmination and not an open ended theme. It's also about expectations. I wouldn't have thought much of the film, but when you know the director, you expect something more. (5/10)
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