Go Goa Gone

Predictably, the page for Go Goa Gone (GGG) on www.bollywoodhungama.com refers to the genre of this movie as Zom-Com.  It was obviously intended to be funny – the term that is – and does strike as funny for a bit.  Say it in your head a couple of times.  There were RomComs and now there are ZomComs.  Funny no?

 

What you will soon realize that the funny feeling lasts only upto the time that you walk into the cinema hall.  After that, it will dawn upon your pea brain that the joke was actually on you.  That you were the one who was conned by a superb marketing effort by the producers who lured you into the nearest hall to squeeze the living daylights out of you while you try and sustain GGG.

 

Hardik (Kunal Khemu), Luv (Vir Das) and Bunny (Anand Tiwari) are close friends who work together and stay together in what can be best called – A Bachelor Pad.  Hardik and Luv are lazy as can be.  They are also horny as can be.  The 3 of them take off to Goa after Luv gets dumped and Bunny gets called for a business presentation.

 

Here Luv conveniently bumps into the sizzling hot Luna (Puja Gupta) who also invites the gang to a rave party that is being organized by the Russian Mafia on a desolate island off the coast.  The main attraction – the latest drug that is sold in a red capsule and costs $100 a pop.  The side effect – everyone turns into a zombie the next day.  WOW!!!!

 

Now if you don’t find the story ridiculous then get a load of this.  To test if you are a zombie, the following tests have to be conducted.  First you find out what the person has had the previous night.  Next you ask him to narrate multiplication tables.  Then ask him the capital of Uganda and finally show him blood so that you can find out if he gets excited by its sight.  Wait a minute.  Why can’t we just jump to step 4 directly?

 

If you still do not find the concept ridiculous, then by all means go ahead and watch Saif Ali Khan making a fool of himself as a Russian Mafioso and drug dealer called Boris.  The music is nothing great.  The only saving grace is Puja Gupta in a blue 2 piece bikini and some other shots with not too much of clothing.

 

Are we in for a slew of Zombie movies in the days to come? We have had 2 in about a month or so.  I hope to god – and I seriously would like to pray – that we get over our fascination with this genre. I have never been a fan – Hollywood or Bollywood – of critters coming out of the ground and roaming around trying to be scary.  And Bollywood isn’t doing much to change my opinion in any way. 3 on 10.

 

Watch the trailer on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5zGNVRmaE