Bong Tour
A diaspora neon noir masquerading as a stoner comedy.
Logline
A sacred bong vanishes into the Ganges and reappears on Sunset Boulevard, binding two screenwriters to its smoke-script. Hollywood keeps hearing “Bong Tour”; the artifact keeps rewriting the myth until they choose who must burn.
Genre & tone
Comedy, satire, and adventure with psychedelic propulsion and a grounded emotional spine.
Smoke rewrites the myth before it lets you onstage.
Global comps
- The Big Lebowski (stoner philosophy)
- Tropic Thunder (industry satire)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (trip momentum)
- The Player (meta Hollywood)
India comps
- Go Goa Gone energy
- Delhi Belly irreverence
- Luck By Chance insider bite
India isn’t seasoning. It’s the myth engine and the emotional truth—West Bengal as origin, Kolkata as arrival, Rishikesh as reckoning.
Core cast
The energy, posture, and myth weight that keep the satire sharp.
- Vishal
Indian American writer. Long haired, anxious, and brilliant. He believes the film means something even when he is too high to stand upright.
- Drew
Vishal's best friend. Loud, reckless, conspiracy obsessed, and seduced by fame.
- Willie
The grounded force who sees the machine clearly, calls out the nonsense, and ultimately becomes the real author of the outcome.
- Montu
A little person with scars, dignity, and mythic weight. Guardian of the bong and proof that 'small' is not weak.
- The C lister
A washed up actor turned parasite mentor who ushers the writers into the underworld and wants his renaissance at any cost.
- The A lister
A Hollywood legend. Shaman-paranoid, power drunk, and eager for an initiation instead of a pitch.
- Upper Management
Not a person but an ecosystem. The industry itself, forever offering the sequel to keep you owned.
Scene Card 1 Act I — The bong enters America
West Bengal, by the Ganges. Montu, scarred and bleeding, sets a basket afloat like Moses. Inside is the bong. It sinks, fills, and absorbs the sacred river.
Smash cut to Sunset Boulevard. Vishal and Drew clutch the same bong, heading into a pitch while Hollywood careens through strikes and desperation.
The act builds their rhythm: Vishal spirals, Drew charges, and neither is sober enough to notice a larger game already in motion.
Scene Card 2 Act II — The Comedy Store initiation
Enter the C lister who shapes the writers and reframes their destiny. Even the title becomes a battleground: 'Bhang Tour' versus 'Bong Tour'.
The Comedy Store sequence escalates into a bacchanal: champagne in the bong, chemical chaos, backstage councils. A warning lands: 'The Lollipop Guild runs this town.'
An A lister refuses a normal pitch, doses the bong with DMT, and forces everyone to watch the film inside their minds. He asks the moral spine: does the little person have to die?
Scene Card 3 Act III — India, origin, sacrifice
The story bends back toward India as source code. Kolkata arrival is dense with texture before the journey turns ominous.
Rishikesh reunites Vishal with his father, a legend who frames the theme with clarity: fame is different at home and heritage is not optional.
Flashback noir reveals the Baba Gandalfi rule: 'The bong can only preserve life. It cannot extend it.' Montu completes the circle by releasing the bong back into the Ganges.
What lingers
- Diaspora identity: you cannot outrun origin, you can only integrate it.
- Fame as intoxication: the industry keeps dosing you.
- Power structures: LA and Mumbai speak the same language, gatekeepers just wear different suits.
- Representation with a blade: Montu is the moral center and the script argues about how stories use bodies for catharsis.
Market pulse
- Audience
- Gen Z and Millennial stoner-comedy fans, industry insider hate-watchers, diaspora viewers, and festival crowds who want satire with teeth.
- Platform reality
- A global OTT event, English-led with India chapters, positioned for cult repeat watches.
- Franchise seed
- The ending explicitly tees up the sequel conversation with Upper Management.
Packaging directives
Guard the myth. Protect the collaborators. Keep the smoke sacred.
- Attach a prestigious Indian actor as Vishal's father and treat the role like a crown.
- Keep Montu dignified and iconic. Cast a real little person actor and guard the marketing language.
- Shoot India chapters with local creative leadership so Kolkata and Rishikesh feel lived in, not touristy.
Producer invitation
Bong Tour moves like smoke—fast, shape shifting, impossible to hold—then lands as a myth about who gets to tell stories, who gets used up, and how the sacred keeps resurfacing in the dirtiest places.