Barefoot To Goa Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Timepass based on 6 reviews
Avg. User Rating
3.0
Verdict: Cool based on 1 reviews & ratings
4.5
Murtaza Ali Khan | APotpourriOfVestiges
…is a profound work of cinema that needs to be watched by everyone who loves and admires filmmaking that’s both honest and pristine. Morchhale’s film can be deemed brilliant on both the technical and emotional fronts, especially given the budget constraints that one often associates with an indie feature film.Read full review3.0
Surabhi Redkar | Koimoi
…is like watching a short story on celluloid. It seemed little hurried with an abrupt ending but nonetheless it is successful in sending out the required message. Emotion is the essence of this film and only those who cherish them will enjoy it.Read full review
2.5
Renuka Vyavahare | Times of India
Our fast-paced lives do not allow us to make time for those who matter, particularly our parents. And this contemporary issue is predominantly addressed by Morchhale here. The film had the potential to be way more effective; nonetheless, it’s a sincere effort that deserves to be acknowledged.Read full review2.0
Rahul Desai | Mumbai Mirror
Though it combines my favourite cinematic devices—senior citizen, kids, road trip-I’m quite sure most kind-hearted adults would first dump the runaways at the nearest police station. But here, hitchhiking is eerily simple, and any stranger displaying concern comes across as a responsible pedophile. Performances largely involve walking and using different modes of transport.Read full review2.0
Johnson Thomas | The Free Press Journal
It’s all very well being influenced by Iranian cinema but to try and incorporate similar elements without working out the cultural manifestations is sheer foolhardiness in my book. Praveen Morchhale seems sincere in his efforts to portray the problems faced by the aged and ailing- unfortunately his good intentions did not translate into a good film!Read full review1.0
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid Day
…is one of those films that was made with public funding and that’s one reason why the director had an additional responsibility of making this a good film. Sadly, it doesn’t live up to the trust put in by the people to make sure that it sees the light of the day. The intention is right — it deals with a relevant social issue of how old parents are abandoned by their children and looked at as inconvenience — but the execution definitely is not.Read full reviewNR
Uday Bhatia | LiveMint
I take no pleasure in running down a film that’s obviously been strung together on a minuscule budget, but couldn’t everything have been thought through a bit more? The screenplay trades in the worst kind of virtuous-villager/seeing-the-face-of-God-in-a-child clichés. The camerawork is all over the place, favouring close-ups when none are required and occasionally shifting to shaky, hand-held shots, with disastrous results. The colour scheme is too dark, though even when you peer through, there’s nothing of interest to see.Read full review
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My review of Barefoot To Goa (2015) by madhu20balaji
madhu20balaji, 9 years agoThe children of the 21st century hardly grow with the pampering of grandparents since most of the families have turned nuclear over time. “Barefoot to Goa” is a story that brings the mixture of ancient tradition with modernization into lights. It is a documentary combined drama film. Two kids travel all the way to Goa without any knowledge about the journey from Mumbai. They head the journey to meet their beloved grandmother who fell sick, staying miles isolated from her family. The kids, elder boy and the little girl encounter a lot of peculiar situations through their journey. The experiences and circumstances they overcome reveal a lot about the lifestyle and lovely characteristics of people of the area. Meanwhile the mother hunts for her children lodging a complaint on the missing kids. The story is filled with right set of emotion and the love bond that the grandparents and grandchildren hold between them.
