Go Goa Gone
- Director
- Raj and D.K.
- Studio
- Illuminati Films
- Release Date
- 9 May 2013
- Running Time
- 112 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹19.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹38.40 Cr
Review
Rajkumar Hiranandani has crafted something genuinely unexpected here—a zombie comedy that doesn't apologize for its genre hybridity and largely succeeds because of it. The premise of three hapless Mumbai boys stumbling into a zombie apocalypse on a Goa island could easily have collapsed into lazy parody, but the film maintains a surprising balance between genuine scares and humor that actually lands. Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, and the supporting cast bring an easy charm to their roles; they don't wink at the audience, which paradoxically makes the absurdity work better. The chemistry between the leads feels natural enough to ground the story, even when the filmmaking around them becomes deliberately cartoonish.
Where the film truly impresses is in its technical execution and world-building on what was clearly a modest budget. The zombie design and action sequences demonstrate competent craft—nothing groundbreaking, but solidly entertaining. The D2RF drug concept, while not particularly original, provides a functional narrative spine without pretending to be anything deeper than B-movie entertainment. Some pacing issues emerge in the second act, and one could argue the script occasionally mistakes noise for wit, but these feel like minor stumbles in a film that understands its own lane. This is unpretentious genre filmmaking done with visible affection for the material.
Rating: 6.8/10
Storyline
So basically, these two buddies named Hardik and Luv are having a rough time in Mumbai—one just got fired and the other's going through a breakup. Their friend Bunny decides to take them to Goa for a little getaway to cheer them up. Things seem fun at first, especially when they meet this girl Luna who invites them to this wild rave party on a remote island. There's this new drug floating around called D2RF that everyone's into, but thankfully our three friends decide to skip it because it's super expensive.
The next morning, everything goes absolutely crazy when the island suddenly fills with zombies everywhere. The friends realize Luna's still trapped somewhere on the island, so they have to go searching for her. When they find her, Luna tells them what went down—her friend took the drug, got really sick, turned into a zombie, and started attacking people. Now the whole group needs to escape, and they bump into Boris and Nikolai, a couple of tough Russian guys who actually know how to handle zombie situations and have weapons to prove it.
Boris explains that this D2RF drug basically shuts down everything in your body except for one part of your brain, so people who take it just become mindless eating machines. As the group tries to make their way through the island toward a boat that could save them, they have to sneak past hordes of undead creatures lurking around. Boris turns out to be pretty helpful—he even saves Hardik's life at one point using just a knife. They're navigating through the forest trying to figure out their next move while dealing with all these obstacles in their way.
