Road King

Overview

Starring Mateen Hussain, this ground-breaking film was directed over Skype across 2 different continents. In the movie we meet Arjun, a motorcycle dealer in Bangalore who lives life to the fullest while staying clear from the complications of a real relationship. That is until he meets Manasa, an innocent college student new to town. Arjun and Manasa find everything in each other but as time passes, the realities of life start to kick in and they must face some harsh truths. Arjun has no stable career to speak of but his complete love for Manasa makes him try his best to tick all the boxes for her family. In the end she is forced to call it off with Arjun and take on an arranged suitor. Not able to make peace with the break-up and his situation, Arjun goes from bad to worse as he hits the bottle and other things for comfort. Jaded, mentally drained and closed off from his friends, his depression intensifies and he soon slips into an obsessive malicious love disorder.

Randy Kent