Go Goa Gone
It doesn’t take too much to excite some one of a movie with
the title having the 3 magical letters of Goa in it. To add to that in the
trailer, you wacky hummable music,
Zombie plot., 3 guys having bachelor fun in Goa, one new chick as part of
the cast, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, since you’ve seen the
trailer
The movie remains very focused on the Zombie plot, and does
not waste time lounging around irrelevant scenes, but you did feel that the
movie did not take you around on a little trip around Goa, as much as you
imagined sitting in living room. The Zombie genre, recently introduced in
India, by Luke Kenny, seems to have been inspired by Walking Dead-from
Hollywood, but fits in rather well with the Goa theme.
The directors have done well to keep a balance between the
comedy and the zombie chase, keeping with the trailer’s promise of a
Zom-Com(Zombie comedy). It’s easy to have fallen for the bait of missing the
woods for the trees in focusing more on the zombie part, but the film makers
have done justice to the way they have timed the length of the movie.
The movie starts with a spicy Telugu number, where
Chiranjeevi’s jhatka’s from the 90’s, have Luv(Vir Das) and Hardik(Kunal)
unwillingly glued to the dance, since neither of them is stable enough to push
their laziness to change the remote. The
scene just showed how bored in life, each of them were, and why they needed a
break from the routine and vert appropriately, their mundance life is
highlighted by the catchy ‘Khoon Choos Le’ number. To make matters more worse,
Hardik loses his job due to a make out session in the office board room, and
Luv is rejected by his girlfriend(eerily similar to Eurotrip’s ‘Scotty doesn’t
know’). So in true Indian style, people use their frustration to rise like the
phoenix, in making a Goa trip, thanks to an opportunity that arises due to
Bunny(their room mate), who needs to make a presentation to his higher ups.
Cut to Goa, the director makes a humorous point on how
today’s Facebook friends are mere connections on the web, more than actual
friends. Luv’s who’s full monty in the pool, end up meeting Luna(his Facebook
Fraand), who happens to know everything in Luv’s real life, thanks to his
Facebook updates(apart from knowing that the Chaddi floating in the water is
Luv’s). Luna(Puja Gupta) looks vivacious
in the bikini, and one only wishes they had more of her in the movie, to keep
the fun quotient going!
Luna informs them of a rave party in a secret island, and
before you know it, our bachelor trio drive down to a point where where they
see the island from the coast. In a very ‘The Beach’esque fashion, the trio
looks at the island from a distance, and decide how close It is, for them to
get there. Once on the island, the rave
party is shown in the rather appropriate ‘Slowly Slowly’ number. The rave party
has pills being distributed for people to get high, and our trio doesn’t have
the pills, since they don’t have the moolah in the pocket. Hardik takes ‘Ariana’ to make love under the
moonlight, and wakes up the next morning, when the morning sun gleams on his
face. He wakes up to see people eating
other people on the beach, and runs for cover to make sense of the situation
and meets his other friends . The conversation that follows is hilarious, given
the studious background of Bunny( A Steve Job fan, who chooses to ask ‘What do
we know, what have we learnt), and our trio trek their way out to get out of
the island. In the midst of their run, Hardik suddenly remembers that
Luna, had said that she would be going from the party to meet her friends on
the hilltop guest house. He convinces his friends to go rescue Luna, and then
they get to the hilltop guesthouse to discover blood stains all over, and find
Luna locked in her room. They discover the Zombie phenomenon is all over the
island and not limited to what they saw., and realize that this may be linked
to the pills that were distributed. While they run together for safety, they
are accosted by the Zombies and just when it seems that the Zombies would have
them for breakfast, Bareez(Boris for the make believe Russian accent), makes an
entry shoots the Zombies, saving the group of 4.
The rest of the movie is about how they encounter and escape
from the Zombies, which forms 60% of the movie, and here is where the movie
slips a bit with a perceived overdose of the zombie bit, but there’s enough rib
tickling comedy to keep you entertained, apart from the racy feel that the
movie has all through the 2 hours.
Things to watch out are Luv’s reactions, when he the false
alarm ticks off in his brain as ‘moments-to- make-out’, and Kunal Khemu’s care
free attitude on his sleeve, which makes up for many ROTFL ‘moments’. Overall, it makes for interesting viewing, but you
leave the hall wondering if it could have been better. Could the ‘Director Babaii’
have given more bootiful ‘Bhaang for the Buck’? The answer is yes, but you ‘Slowly
Slowly’ forget all that, as the songs more than make up for the few gaffes that
stay in the movie!
