In his debut feature “Dug Dug”, director Ritwik Pareek tackles a very divisive topic, the birth of a cult and later, a religion. But unlike some movies from recent history that have explored similar themes (“The Master” comes to mind), it does it with a sense of fun and ebullience. “Dug Dug” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“Dug Dug” is screening at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Thakur (Altaf Khan), a drunken motorbike rider, dies in a gristly traffic accident. His beat blue and pink bike gets towed to the police station, where it is destined to rot. Only that next day it is nowhere to be found in the police premise because it has miraculously teleported at the scene of the incident. It is brought to the station again, only to disappear the next day. The strange behavior of the inanimate object gets the attention...
“Dug Dug” is screening at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Thakur (Altaf Khan), a drunken motorbike rider, dies in a gristly traffic accident. His beat blue and pink bike gets towed to the police station, where it is destined to rot. Only that next day it is nowhere to be found in the police premise because it has miraculously teleported at the scene of the incident. It is brought to the station again, only to disappear the next day. The strange behavior of the inanimate object gets the attention...
- 4/30/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
Ritwik Pareek’s “Dug Dug” asks how a culture might pour its anxieties into a supernatural mystery, and it answers in raucous fashion. After a motorcycle accident leaves a man dead in Rajasthan, India, his impounded bike begins mysteriously reappearing at the scene. Locks and chains don’t help, and local villagers are drawn to this oddity — as are numerous grifters — resulting in the founding of a bizarre new religion. The film is moderately effective as social satire, though it most succeeds as a dizzying, intoxicating romp, bursting at the seams with vivid detail and musical energy, and a fair few flourishes borrowed from big Hollywood names.
. “Groovy!” says one character, followed by numerous crash-zooms into the many locks, keys and safes meant to tie down the mischievous motorbike. It plays like something out of Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” horror-comedies, but despite Pareek working in a different genre — his...
. “Groovy!” says one character, followed by numerous crash-zooms into the many locks, keys and safes meant to tie down the mischievous motorbike. It plays like something out of Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” horror-comedies, but despite Pareek working in a different genre — his...
- 9/12/2021
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
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