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 film starts with disappearance of Ramon and three people being questioned about it. It's then a drag queen comes in and tells the story in flashback. Toni and Emma are a brother/sister duo who own and run a horse farm. The farm's foreman is Ramon, who has been with them since their parents days and now his son Ramon also works with his father. Emma mostly manages the farm and so does Toni but Toni is gay, and also spends a lot of time in clubs, parties and drugs moving from man to man. Emma likes Aaron but he refuses his advances. interestingly around tis time, Toni starts to realize how hot Aaron is and starts pursuing him. Turns out, Aaron is indeed gay and the two men get on it. Aaron's father is homophobic and is constant slurs against Toni's sexuality has been a fear in Aaron's mind in his inability to come out. But the father sees Toni and Aaron together. Turns out that the homophobic father himself has been historically interested in boys. And this is when Aaron disappears. Toni blames Ramon for killing his son and in a fit of anger and fight ends up killing him. It's only later we find the truth about Aaron's disappearance.
As you can see the story is interesting but you can clearly see that the idea was to make it erotic. Half naked men working on farm, all of them gay, randomly hooking up; added no value to the film whatsoever. We do get an idea that Toni is a player, but why keep pushing that in our face, again and again. it was interesting to see how eventually Toni does get interested in Aaron, who by the way is so hot. He looks drool worthy in his one piece overall he wears throughout to work in the farm. The whole angle of Toni's ex suddenly coming back and wanting to be with him was so random. The sad part os even thought they makers were probably going for erotic thriller, the film had so sensuality or passion whatsoever. The guys were hot and acted decent but overall the pieces were not fitting together because there was a whole lot of hogwash added every few minutes.
A decent story, but bad execution (isin't that always the case), cheesy story, and too many unnecessary characters and sub plots. Watch for some good eye-candy but that's it. (4/10)
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