A white guy gets lost in Goa's drug haze and never finds his way back. Literally.
Every year, Goa, one of the biggest party and holiday hosts to the world, welcomes infinite number of tourists. Most of them go back once the season gets over. Few choose to stay back, digging deeper into the traces of a hippie hangover, or trying to search oneself through the incandescent, colorful, trippy shores of Goa. And a few yet, get in so deep at the wrong end of paradise, that they are lost forever, in the same place, but in a whole different world altogether. The film takes one such real-life character - Roy - through a plethora of happenings, phenomena, legends, myths, sights, sounds, experiences and thrilling stories of the fabled Goan paradise. What happens to the protagonist through the bitter-sweet, darkly funny, crazy, trippy journey and what comes along at the end of it, weaves the half-fictitious/half-real story of our film - CandyFlip.
Cinematography
Goa's beaches look gorgeous even when everything's going wrong
Acting
Gulshan Devaiah's unraveling is uncomfortably real
Sound
The trance soundtrack that becomes increasingly sinister
Director
Shanawaz Nellikunnil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film taps into Goa's actual history as a 1960s hippie endpoint, where Western seekers still arrive expecting enlightenment and often find exploitation, addiction, or disappearance.
Director Shanawaz Nellikunnil reportedly based Roy loosely on real foreigners who vanished into Goa's underground drug scene, some of whom were never traced by their embassies.
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