Direction: Raj Nidimoru and
Krishna DK
Actors: Saif Ali Khan, Kunal
Khemu, Vir Das, Anand
Tiwary
Rating: **1/2 A Bollywood
zombie comedy — the idea itself is
delicious. I was really pumped to see
Go Goa Gone. Writer-directors Raj
Nidimoru and Krishna DK deliver what
their zany promos promised, but only
for half the film. Post-interval, the
film does a zombie on us — it
becomes dead, lumbering and tedious.
But the first part is absolutely
crackling. Our heroes are two
deadbeat stoners — Hardik and Luv,
played nicely by Kunal Khemu and Vir
Das.
These losers are so lazy that they
argue for several minutes about who
will pick up the remote to change the
television channel. The third friend
Bunny, played by Anand Tiwary, is a
nerdy conscientious type, who seems
perpetually traumatized by the other
two.
Hardik loses his job. Luv loses his
girlfriend. All three end up at a rave
party in Goa. The drugs being imbibed
here are so powerful that they turn
takers into zombies.
Enter Boris, the Russian mafioso
played by Saif Ali Khan, who throws
the rave, supplies the drugs and then,
of course, kills dead people.
Raj, DK and their team of writers
keep the gags coming thick and fast.
The jokes are twisted, irreverent and
very funny — there were several
moments in which I laughed out loud.
And then abruptly, the energy deflates
like air out a balloon. Once the
situation has been set up, the directors
seem to run out of ideas.
The plot circles on itself. The group
keeps getting attacked by zombies
and they keep figuring out ways to
escape.
At one point, Luv suggests
impersonating zombies — an idea
taken from Edgar Wright’s superbly
funny zombie movie Shaun of the
Dead. But Raj and DK are too clever
to steal so Luv mumbles something
like: kisi film mein dekha tha.
I think the trouble with Go Goa Gone
is too much cleverness and not enough
plot.
Post-interval, even the fabulous Boris,
a tattooed, blond Russian rockstar
from Delhi, starts to feel limp. Which
is such a shame — because until then,
Go Goa Gone is a gloriously trippy ride.
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