Diirector: Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kunal khemu, Vir Das, Puja Gupta and Anand Tiwary
It’s like a normal day in a youngsters’ life, where laziness beats any other thing that comes their way. Go Goa Gone starts off with the same note, where the leads Kunal Khemu(Hardik) and Vir das(Luv) , try to force each other to change the channel where the remote rests a little far from their reach. Not able to come to a conclusion, post which they continue to watch the same thing that they were watching earlier. Crazy, right?? Yet, so similar to our everyday life or to say a youngsters’ life.
Smoking, Alcohol and drugs rule the roost in these bachelors’ life, work is something that they care very little about, and lazying around is what they find solace in.
Their saving grace is the other roomie, Benny (Played by Anand tiwary), the “adarsh” boy types, and whose office trip becomes the excuse for these two to have a small vacation.
Enter goa!!
Luv, whose girlfriend dumps him in a very peculiar fashion, seeks to find another one to get over her and he meets Luna( played by Puja Gupta), the hot chick who happens to be one of the many friends’ in his facebook profile.
Now, the things change when Luna invites him for a rave party to an island which has been organized by the russian mafia!!
It is all happening in the crazy Goa, before the Zombies enter!!! Now something like this has never been attempted in India, so full marks for this attempt. But then, they do fall short of turning into something really remarkable. It draws similarity from Hollywood movies on the same, but then almost all the films these days have something of that sort.
Saif Ali Khan, who plays boris, the look makes him look one of the Russian too. With zombies, almost everywhere, thanks to a drug offered at the party. Saif takes him upon himself to kill them all by becoming a Zombie hunter. Or as he says, “I keel dead peepal” . Trying to put on the Russian English accent, and then switching to hindi slangs in between, saif does put up a good show, with some killer gun shots out there to show.
The film has its moments, many actually. But they are not tailored to be any sort of melodramatic or theatrical. There are just simple comic dialogues. The main point of little discomfort perhaps for me was the dialogue delivery between actors. They could have taken it to an all new height, had it been little perfected. Certain dialogues were way too witty but their pure placement in between some makes you even miss them.
One of the rare movies, that I felt a song or two was actually necessary to do justice to the story. If not many, at least a Party song was a must.
The movie definitely was fast paced, and little short of 2 hours of running time, won’t make you feel your time getting wasted.
A one-time watch, and would be more enjoyable if watched with a bunch of crazy friends.
A 2.5/5 for Go Goa Gone.