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 ...
Once you reach the sky, there is only downfall from there when it involves sex and drugs. We see multiple characters and their stories which eventually connect. After having. Lived a life of illicit drug use and unprotected sex in Manhattan, Dale has now moved to a small quaint town trying to keep his mind away from excitement of NYC. Mistress DaTina runs a sex and drug den. She opens up her place for gay sex and drug usage but only for as long as the guys strip down when they arrive and stay naked while there. Rob is homeless, gay and young and uses sex and drugs to find a place to sleep and he does not care who takes him in; including some really old and disgusting folks. Christian deals with loss and feels helpless. He uses drugs as a means of escape from the loneliness and hurt that he feels and all this does is make feel even lonelier and feel the hurt more intensely. These storylines come together to give us a look at addiction and sex.
The film is narrated by a character known as the writer who records the characters and their stories and the director tries to take us to the underground into the dark where sexuality and drug use come together. The big problem here, like most of Verow's films is that the man has ideas, but he has absolutely no clue on how to present those ideas in a form that is consumable and makes sense to the general audience. And it's not about the low budget production values, it's more about the narrative and storylines, always convoluted and disoriented. The subject is drugs within gay community is still quite prevalent and needs to be addressed but in a manner that would help us, nit in a way where it ends up being soft core porn. This one, like most of his other films, is again completely avoidable. (1.5/10)
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