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 story is primarily about three teenage boys. Peter, is an artist, whose mother knows he is gay but his father refuses to accept this and wants him to become a man. Miles regularly bullies Peter caling him faggot, but he is himself closeted gay. At home he has a very hostile relationship with his mother who resorts to prostitution for drugs. It turns out Miles has been using Jack for his sexual pleasure, who suffers physical and verbal abuse at the hands of his alcoholic single dad. When Peter goes for a hunting weekend with his father, they end up in a cabin where nearby Jack lives and somehow Miles and his girlfriend are also either passing by or live there or something of that sorts. Somehow Jack and Peter both run away form their dad, meet and spend next couple of days exploring each other and also maybe falling for each other. Not before Miles finds them and in a silly scene forces them to join a party otherwise he will out them. It didn't make any sense. Jack can't eventually take the abuse anyone and kills himself. Peter is heartbroken and so is Miles, who apparently really loved Jack.
The film is so odd right from the beginning. Its as if all kids are gay and all adults are messed up individuals and a community is unable to accept LGBT folks. The film tries to pack so much into a single film, that it never bothers to go into the details of either the psyche of these three individuals or their relationship with each other and their parents. The film touches upon suicide, drug addiction, sexuality and bullying, but it never really finds a strong way to explore them. Instead, each of the topics is touched upon and added to the story in a very surface level way. Besides the good looking leads, the film has noting going for it. Badly written screenplay nd equally bad direction, surely this film is nowhere bad to those horror vampire wanna be queer dramas, but then in 2021, there is no excuse for giving audience, nonsense like this which serves absolutely no entertainment or message or purpose. (3/10)
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