Don’t take your brains…else Zombies will eat your brain

Go Goa Gone

Director: Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.

When I first saw the trailer of Go Goa Gone, I was NOT impressed. And I was sure that I’ll not watch it, because first the concept can’t work with the Indian audience and secondly I was so sure that the directors will not be able to do justice to the concept and they failed.

The intro part of the three main leads was also a flop, it seems like I have seen this thing hundreds of times. The first 20 minutes of the movie are kinda forgettable, but I guess, necessary — same old one-liners, same old activities — one bad boy duped by his girlfriend, the other losing his job and then the two of them piling on the nice guy and off they are to Goa.

The fun starts only when we have our first sighting of the zombies. Like all zombie movies, they have a SILLY explanation for why there are zombies. Usually, zombie-fests are blamed on military experiments and viruses imported from some godforsaken, but here they just put it on to a drug, which is apparently the baap of cocaine and other such substances and screws you up pretty good.

The message is simple: Drugs turn you into a zombie.

Saif Ali Khan as Boris, alternating between a Dilli accent and a Russian accent, is in very good form. In a scene where he interrogates and intimidates Kunal Khemu’s character while checking for possible signs of the zombie virus, both actors shine as they play off each other. Having said that, Go Goa Gone is a fun watch. There are plenty of innocent-sounding, slow-exploding one-liners, which are funny.

Also, the background score and the sound design is kinda weird. And the weirdest part was showing of pics of Soha Ali Khan as the real love. Dumb. It’s a pity then the writers don’t know what to do with the script post intermission. So they’re persistently pursued by swarms of zombies through forests and beaches and an abandoned home. Because these monsters inspire neither fear nor laughs, the film’s extended climax doesn’t feel merely convenient.The directors should have atleast thought of a better climax.

Ratings: 2.5/5