This Indian series is being sold as a story about a gay man falling for his straight best friend but honestly, at its heart, it's really about friendship and what friendship can look like when it gets complicated and messy and emotionally loaded. It's available on the YouTube channel of Last Leaf Pictures, seven episodes of about 30 minutes each. I had mixed feelings throughout and a big part of that comes down to how I felt about one of the lead characters, but more on that in a bit. Anshul and Kavith are the two men at the centre of everything. They first meet on a train heading to Delhi, both of them not really ready to go back to their hometowns. They get off midway, turn around and head back to Mumbai to give themselves one more shot at the life they want there. Anshul is an aspiring actor with a young son back in Delhi living with his grandmother. Kavith is gay, freshly out of yet another relationship, his 17th by his own count over the years. The two strike up this unusu...
The film is about this comedian and wife. They have apathy marriage and the husband keeps joking to his wife that she is having affair with her best girlfriend (which she is, it seems). After the comedian's sudden death, a man shows up at the funeral saying that the husband was involved in an affair with a mute rent boy and now that he is dead, the wife needs to pay the dues that are owed. She is not surprised by learning of the revelation. This is when the "girlfriend" steps in and says she will take care of it. Meanwhile, the mute rent boy finds some sort of admiration and attraction for the wife, which is never clearly explained. He wants out for himself from this pimp but he would have none of it. The 'girlfriend' and wife come up with some wretched plan where they decide they will threaten the pimp and kill him. In the end the wife (or was it the girlfriend' who dies after being pushed from the roof and the film just as randomly ends as it started.
I am telling you film was just extremely awful right from bad acting to bad story to bad direction. The worse was the so called villain who offs so caricaturist and totally laughable. The script, if there was any, is so random. And to top off all this there is this jarring background music throughout the film which is so damn annoying. I guess it is supposed to substitute for plot and angsty shots of people pouting for extended periods of time. I debated if I should even review the film here, since besides the comedian said to have an affair with a rent boy, there is nothing else gay/queer about this, but then I guess it makes sense, becasue a subject like this won't have been touched those times. Even though the film is just under an hour, no one and I mean not even your worst enemies should have to sit through this atrocity. (0/10)
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