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 ...
Peter, a freudian psychiatrist married to a Finnish actor, David, a young British gay living in Banyoles, addicted to Grinder, and Coco Lamour, a Parisian French actress. Peter is a friend of Maria, also a Freudian psychiatrist, and Betsy, David's mother, living in Cadaqués. Maria prepares a trip to spend some days with Betsy. David works at a computer company in Girona directed by a very talented young Indian, Usha. David has a great crisis with his partner, Daniel, a Mallorcan living in Barcelona. Albert is a famous British writer retired in Begur passing the mourning for the loss of his partner. Gilda, a great actress, half Scotish half German, lives in Mallorca and is very close to Joan LaÃnez and MGMC. At her house every day there's a great party. Everyone is worried about the ending of the love story of David and Daniel, the young guys. But, as Shakespeare says "All's well that ends well" on a trip of the whole group to Mallorca.
Just because at the center of everyone's worry is the couple David and Daniel, really does not make this a gay film. In fact just 10% of the film is what I would put in queer zone, rest everything was jibber jabber in my opinion. This is one of those strange film that feels like it is made by aliens trying to pass off as humans. 80% of the film is songs and singing with just a few dialogues thrown on between for posterity and they were also so bad. The repetitive lyrics, nonsensical camera angles and incomprehensible edits will leave viewers feeling anything but positive. The only positive thing about this film was beautiful locations. Sadly, rest everything from actors to acting to songs to singing to lyrics to something called a 'film' were just outrightly bad. Do not be fooled by the romantic poster. This English film from Spain is absolutely to be avoided. (0.5/10)
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