Go Goa Gone

Go Goa Gone

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Raj Nidimoru
Krishna D.K.
Produced by Saif Ali Khan
Dinesh Vijan
Sunil Lulla
Story by Raj Nidimoru, Krishna DK, Sita Menon
Starring Saif Ali Khan
Kunal Khemu
Vir Das
Anand Tiwari
Puja Gupta
Larissa Bonesi
Music by Sachin - Jigar
Cinematography Dan MacArthur
Lukasz Pruchnik
Edited by Arindam S Ghatak
Distributed by Eros International
Release dates
  • 10 May 2013 (2013-05-10)
Running time

108 minutes (A version)[1]

100 minutes (U/A version)
Country India
Box office ₹251.6 million (US$3.7 million)[2]

Go Goa Gone is a 2013 Hindi zombie comedy film directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.. The film features Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Puja Gupta and Anand Tiwari. It was released on 10 May 2013, and was hit at the box office.[3] Almost one third of the film was shot in Mauritius.[4]

Plot

Hardik (Kunal Khemu) and Luv (Vir Das) are two dope-heads, living with their roommate/friend Bunny (Anand Tiwari). After Hardik loses his job and Luv gets dumped by his girlfriend, both decide to tag along with Bunny to Goa to relax. In Goa, Luv falls for Luna (Puja Gupta), and she invites the guys to a rave party, organised by the Russian mafia, which is being held on a secluded island. At the party a new drug, D2RF, is launched. None of the friends take it as it's for Rs 5K. The next morning, the three roommates find that the island has been infected by the "living dead" (zombies), and the three men save Luna from her villa and stay together in hopes of surviving. A Russian mafioso, Boris (Saif Ali Khan, originally from Delhi/Dilli), arrives and reveals himself as a zombie slayer.

The three roommates and Luna plan to use the boat they had used to travel to the island to escape from it. Finally, after escaping the forest, they discover that the mainland has also been infested by the zombies, forcing them to find another way to survive.Boris tells them the boat will come back to the original place by rotating the island as the boat was taken by a zombie.They find a home fully vacant & decide to stay there. Borris leaves the four of them in the house saying he has important work with his partner Nicolae. At night after Borris leaves, the zombies find the house and attack the four of them. They run away from the zombies and reach the rave party area looking for food. They are chased by zombies there also. Bunny enters a tent and is shown to be dead. The three manage to escape with the help of Borris and Nicole: who arrive just in time. On the way Nicole gets bitten by a zombie so they leave him behind. The three are grief stricken as Bunny is dead.

They realise Borris had gone back to obtain his expensive Cocaine. Whilst waiting for the boat to arrive, Hardik gets a call from Bunny saying he's alive and on top of a tower. The four of them go to rescue him where Boris is surrounded by the zombies and the four youngsters escape.

When they reach Borris's jeep, Bunny tells them that he threw cocaine at the zombies which were coming to attack him. The mixing of the red pill and cocaine made them still. They go back to save Boris, they throw the cocaine packets towards the sky and ask Boris to shoot it. This trick works and all the zombies come to a stand still.

They leave the island coming to a conclusion that "drugs f**k you up".

When they arrive at the shore of Goa, they see that the settlement is burning and everything is damaged. All five take their guns out and the movie ends there on the note - "The End..is near".

Cast and crew

Cast

Crew

Production

Development

For his role in the film as Russian mafioso turned zombie hunter, Boris, Saif Ali Khan who had no experience of portraying such a character was given the book The Zombie Survival Guide by the directors.[5]

Promotion

The film has been publicized as India's first "Zom-Com".[6] '

Soundtrack

Go Goa Gone
Soundtrack album by Sachin - Jigar
Released 10 May 2013
Genre Soundtrack
Label Sony Music India (SME)
Eros
Producer Illuminati Films
Sachin - Jigar chronology
I, Me Aur Main
(2013)		 Go Goa Gone
(2013)		 Ramaiya Vastavaiya
(2013)

The music was composed by the duo Sachin - Jigar. The lyrics were written by Priya Panchal and Amitabh Bhattacharya, and songs feature the voices of Jigar Saraiya, Talia Bentson, Sachin Sanghvi, Priya Panchal, and Shreya Ghoshal.

No. TitleLyricsSinger(s) Length
1. "Slowly Slowly"  Priya PanchalJigar Saraiya & Talia Benston 3:21
2. "Khoon Choos Le"  Amitabh BhattacharyaArjun Kanungo, Suraj Jagan & Priya Panchal 3:20
3. "Babaji Ki Booti"  Amitabh BhattacharyaAnand Tiwari, Sachin - Jigar, Kunal Khemu, Raj & DK, Bornalee Deuri 3:46
4. "Khushamdeed"  Priya PanchalShreya Ghoshal 3:35
5. "I Keel Ded Peepul"   Saif Ali Khan 1:42

Critical reception

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the movie 3.5/5 stars and has stated that "On the whole, Go Goa Gone is experimental since something like this has never been attempted earlier".[7] Meena Iyer from the Times of India gave the movie 3/5 stars mentioning that "Go Goa Gone is positively different from anything you might have seen before".[8] Shubir Rishi for Rediff.com said "Go Goa Gone is a fun watch with plenty of innocent-sounding, slow-exploding one-liners, which make you laugh".[9] Namrata Joshi of Outlook India summarised by saying "It's fun, sharp, smart and irreverent. Pushes many of our sanctimonious envelopes." [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Go Goa Gone (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Go Goa Gone". Bollywoodhungama.com. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
  3. ↑ Go Goa Gone. boxofficeindia.com
  4. ↑ Geety Sahgal (5 September 2014). "Mauritius bound". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Go Goa Gone: Saif's zombie research". Parag Maniar, TNN. The Times of India. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Go Goa Gone trailer goes viral". Hindustan Times. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  7. ↑ Taran Adarsh. "Review: Go Goa Gone". bollywoodhungama.com. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  8. ↑ Meena Iyer. "Review: Go Goa Gone Review". Rediff.com. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Shubir Rishi. "Review: Go Goa Gone could have used more fun-gore". Rediff.com. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  10. ↑ Joshi, Namrata (27 May 2013). "Go Goa Gone".

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