Go Goa Gone Movie Reviews

This is bloody funny.. Eros International and Illuminati films 'Go Goa Gone' is an unexpected ray of sunshine in Bollywood's comedy genre and is not at all ashamed of being little red. After proving their smarts with 'The Shor in the City' Krishna D.K. and Raj Nidimoru makes Bollywood breathe fresh by introducing this wacky zombie genre pumping new life into b-town comedies with subtle visual humor and a smart, impish sense of fun

Bollywood has dabbled with ghosts, spirits and paranormal movies aplenty. Besides, the supernatural and horror genre is fast gaining popularity with dream merchants, after a hiatus. Now, storytellers in Mumbai are geared up to take the genre to an altogether new level, introducing the spectators to zombies. GO GOA GONE, directed by Raj and DK, is India's first 'zom-com'. Romance, action and comedy continue to be the most privileged genres

Zombies have taken over pop culture. Vampires and spirits are not popular anymore. Be it TV shows (The Walking Dead) or motion pictures (World War Z), the lifeless creatures are everywhere. Bollywood joins the rank, with a commercial masala potboiler set in Goa using zombies as their central theme. Hardik (Kunal), Luv (Vir) and Bunny (Anand) are three friends who land up in Goa to get away from the humdrum of their mediocre lives

Finally. Zombies! It's about time the general Indian population was alerted about the possibility of a post-apocalyptic world where the dead walk and feast upon the living and bring them into their fold. I should admit that I'm a huge fan of the genre and have watched and read a lot on the subject and even enacted the part of a zombie hunter once. So for me, it was enthralling to watch Go Goa Gone in which directors Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru

Yes, there are going to be innumerable comparisons with Hollywood zombie films. Bollywood’s second desi zombie film (Luke Kenny’s forgettable 'Rise of the Zombie' beat it by just one month) comes with a lot of apprehension from zombie film fans. But thankfully unconcerned, 'Go Goa Gone' scores because it deftly marries the desi humour with this concept borrowed from the west. Two friends Hardik (Kunal Khemu) and Luv (Vir Das) are living

Horror and humour are two diverse genres and Bollywood has often confused one with the other, what with horror films turning out to be unintentionally funny and comedy films ending up being horrific experiences. So when a film attempts to bring together these two genres, it becomes tricky business. Moreover for Bollywood horror that has largely been infested with the archetypal aatmas, zombies are still a new species. Fortunately Go Goa Gone skillfully employs the zombie

How ridiculous can ridiculous get? This is a question that must be posed, repeatedly, to the brilliant writer-director duo — Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru — just to keep their ridiculous juices flowing. Go Goa Gone is billed and branded as India’s first zombie comedy, or zomcom. That’s not much of an invite, and it just doesn’t do justice to this completely mental film that no man (and by man I mean man, not woman), could have made alone

Goa, zombies, three bums on an acid trip and a Russian don spewing desi cuss. If the idea sounds wild, the genre driving Go Goa Gone makes the film wilder. The zom-com, triggered off by this film, is an absolutely new dish on the plate of the Bolly fan. Zom-com, or the zombie comedy, is actually a sub-genre that spoofs the classic zombie horror movie in Hollywood. Bollywood by and large has avoided zombie domain, if you discount the Ramsay attempts

Despite a change of heart, Luv gets dumped by his girlfriend who has been cheating on him. His buddy Hardik gets caught in the middle of a make out session and ends up jobless. Climbing up on the back of their ‘good boy’ friend Bunny, the three embark on a feel good trip to Goa. Embarking on a journey to a rave party, a strange new drug converts its consumers into zombies. What happens once the trio wake up to a deserted island infested

The gory stuff may be less and the movie is not that scary but the directors have managed to take a genre totally alien to what is dished out to us and make it into something that we would love.

Go Goa Gone has been advertised as India's first zom-com, or a comedy about zombies. The film, starring Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, and Anand Tiwari as three best friends stranded on an island infested with flesh-eating zombies, works like magic when directors Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru focus on their three leads and the irreverent banter between them. But, working off a slim plot, the filmmakers don't really know where to take the story after a point

So who's a zombie? For some it's a sleep-derived person who walks around as if in a trance. For others, it's a soulless creature who can be revived by witchcraft. But in Krishna D K and Raj Nidimoru's Go Goa Gone, the zombies are some interesting creatures who've overdosed on a drug that is said to be more dangerous than MDMA, or Ecstasy as most of us know it. And now these living people have turned into a brain-dead lot who know nothing but hunger

The macabre spirit of George A Romero meets the crazy core of a Bollywood comic caper in an outré terrain never seen before in a mainstream Hindi film – part Goa, part Mauritius, part tropical paradise swarming with zonked-out zombies fresh from a rave party gone horribly wrong. That is a whole lot of words, but it is actually rather easy to describe Go Goa Gone. It might be easier still to dismiss it as a misshapen genre monster

Pretty much the same could be said of the film as a whole – it’s crazy but cool. It gives you what you least expect and in ways that you least anticipate. That is a rare attribute for a Hindi film. I am going with three stars for Go Goa Gone.

Go Goa Gone is positively different from anything you seen before. And for the young and restless(tattooed, ring-pierced, rave-party enthusiasts) or even those who like whacked-out fun, it’s a great ride. With easy performances from Kunal, Saif, Vir and Anand and the crackerjack dialogue, the film will keep you in splits for the most part.

The directors of ‘Go Goa Gone’ understand that zombies are a completely foreign concept for many of us and have therefore infused the narrative with dollops of comedy to ensure that this unusual premise is made palatable for the average Hindi film buff.

‘Go Goa Gone’ is a pleasant watch, and despite the innumerable scenes depicting flesh and gore, doesn’t leave one with an urge to vomit. The dialogues are witty and are mostly responsible for invoking a laugh. Sense, logic and sensibility be damned – go ‘keel dead peepal’!

Review: Zombies have successfully established their space in Bollywood with Daayans, Chudails, Nagins, Bhoots and Prets all thanks to Raj Nidimoru......

The best thing about Go Goa Gone is that it doesn’t take itself seriously. The worst thing about Go Goa Gone is that it doesn’t take itself seriously. It’s an amusing zombie-killing roller-coaster ride which could have been little more of a thriller. Thriller... that Michael Jackson video which made the dead-men-walking step an international rage. Director duo Raj and DK, who made the brilliant Shor In the City, take such

Three friends head to Goa for some fun and frolic. What they think will be non-stop party-time turns into a nightmare, as they run into an unending stream of strange, shuffling creatures, neither dead nor alive, thirsty for human blood. What are these, quavers one of the alive-but-shaken threesome. Not chudails, not bhoots, but, ta da, zombies. Hardik, Luv, Bunny (Khemu, Das, Tiwari) wouldn't have sounded so surprised if they had known

Post-interval, the film does a zombie on us — it becomes dead, lumbering and tedious. But the first part is absolutely crackling.

I would have liked some more fun-gore in the movie, but I guess I will have to make do with some non-zombie Telugu cinema for the time being. Please go watch this movie sans-kids, and you are in for somegenuine giggles. And of course, there is a promise-like for a sequel.

Fittingly, Bollywood’s first zom com (zombie comedy) borrows broad brushstrokes from this very Hollywood genre, not the least of which are the zombies, with their blank eyes, staggering walk, and blood-spattered teeth. That the setting is Goa, whose beaches are over-run with unwashed, stringy-haired, glassy-eyed foreigners, helps. – See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/movie-review-go-goa-gone/1114060/#sthash.J71eWKVK.dpuf

We are celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema. And what have we learnt a century down the line? Or rather, what is the Indian audience being treated to? Frivolous trash with some juvenile dialogues that will make you feel asinine. GO GOA GONE can easily be rated in the top two of the worst movies of the century. In fact, I'm sure it will top the list. After you have been bludgeoned with gibberish, there is a smart line the female lead asks the others

Sure, the film gets repetitive after the interval, and sure, much of the humour is trite stoner jokes. But Go Goa Gone works as a result of its charming lunacy, and makes a great case for similar films in the days to come.