Go Goa Gone (2013)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Action/Comedy
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Vir Das, Kunal Khemu, Anand Tiwari, Puja Gupta
Whenever Bollywood has tried to explore a new Hollywood concept, most of the times the movie has fallen flat on its face. Be it superheroes, science-fiction, creepy aliens or, in this case, zombies, they never seemed to have seriously worked. Luv (Das), Hardik (Khemu) and Bunny (Tiwari) are three flatmates where Luv and Hardik only want to enjoy life and who also get high on anything they can lay their hands on. When Bunny has to go for an office assignment to Goa, Luv and Hardik decide to hitch-hike along with him. Luna (Gupta) is a random girl who becomes Luv's love interest for the rest of the movie. When Luna invites Luv to an underground rave party organised by the Russians, the three friends decide to go there to have the ultimate time of their lives. Boris (Khan) is ex-Russian mafia who is also the party organiser. The party is for the launch of a new drug which is more lethal than anything you might have come across. What he doesn't know is that the drug has a massive side effect which turns the person into a zombie. Daybreak and the three friends cant seem to find their boat or know where they are. What they do realise is that the island is teeming with zombies, all thirsty for their blood. After rescuing Luna and meeting Boris, the team decides to stick together to get out of this island for good. The movie seems to be heavily inspired from Shaun of the Dead, which is not very surprising considering that most 'innovative' Bollywood movies seem to have roots from outside the industry. The good part is that whenever you come across the Bollywood-ish moments when you think that the movie has screwed things up, the movie happily admits to its own doing. Like Saif playing a Russian with a fake accent to begin with and some parts lifted from other movies. The humour is good and very different from the sexual slapstick that you end up seeing in movies these days. A movie worth the watch, that is if you don't mind the occasional intestine ripping, blood spitting, hand-broken zombie.
Thumbs up: Amazing zombie look, good humour
Thumbs down: Still has some Bollywood elements attached to it
Rating: 7.1/10