Aashiq Abu’s ‘Rifle Club’ is super-cool, super-stylish, and super-entertaining

The film is totally nuts, in a good way. It’s what you get when a bunch of clever cinephiles get together and say: “Let’s have some fun.”

Aashiq Abu’s new film opens in Mangalore, in 1991, where a gun dealer named Daya (Anurag Kashyap) is hosting a birthday party for his son Bichu. The gift is a Ferrari, but Daya won’t just give the keys to Bichu. He makes him act like a dog that has to beg for a bone. The obvious reason for the existence of this scene is to quickly establish the wacko nature of Daya and his sons. But the thing of interest is the subtext, the fact that Bichu acts like a dog. Rifle Club is a movie that compares humans to animals that will do anything for survival. Much later, we will see Daya himself being compared to a tiger, as he wears a yellow jacket with a white-and-black stripe running through it. And… it is stained with human blood!

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