Darr: P with a Plot!

The animated adaptation of both Yash Raj films’ infamous Bollywood film Darr and the execrable video game Hooters Road Trip is going to be known simply as Strange Road Trip: the Animation. Funnily enough, Darr is technically Future Diary’s male focused spiritual predecessor, co-written by Gujarati Zoroastrian actress-screenwriter Honey Irani and Hindustani Muslim screenwriter Javed Siddiqui. Despite the unfortunately gross implications that both kinda share, the writing for Darr and Future Diary is pretty good, albeit heavily dated; but to be fair, The Hooters Road Trip topped them both in terms of how sexist and badly made it really is. 

The future animated web show’s premise is mostly about Sunil (now with the surname of Patekar instead of Malhotra) trying to ensure that he and his friends survive going out of the ultra corrupt education system of India, itself about as corrupt as or even more abused to the core than the already corrupt education system of America. 

The much scarier Madan Gopal Singh is trying to diverge from his equally screwed up ‘superiors’ cum ‘friends’, and is also trying to make consensual and long lasting (if not really legal for 1980s India) bisexual relationships, only for them to leave him vulnerable to the chain of harm much exacerbated by his utterly awful birth mother, herself a serial killer cum sexual deviant. He also was nearly dying after an already tired Sunil Patekar questionably gave him a sense of his own twisted perception on actuality by making a very shattering slap on his frail belly. 

To be fair, Sunil is also a man who himself knows that he’s a really unlucky dude living with ptsd tendencies but sadly doesn’t care much without a really significant change in mind. However, not many people in that country are educated well and know how much lost media India has had, which is partly due to how easily abused and corrupt the school system of India really is. Even more complex is that many Indians of all kinds do snap hard on the subject. 

Note that such a chain of harm is partly caused by a very bad environment, and said mum’s small but insanely screwed up family, who in turn also created it partly out of their lawyers following their scary cultural fundamentalism.