By
Sharada Iyer
Kunal Khemu’s debut directorial enterprise Madgaon Specific is a brilliantly scripted and intelligently directed movie laced with rib-tickling humour from starting to finish. The narrative engages the viewer from the very first scene and the characters are so successfully written that we discover ourselves fully invested within the goings-on of their life and the 2 and a half hours simply breezes away with loads of laugh-out-loud conditions.
It’s simply pure situational comedy and doesn’t resort to any low-cost innuendos, raunchiness and even merchandise numbers. The genius of the movie lies in its very good storyline, fast-paced narrative, loads of humorous twists and turns, hilarious dialogues, and the outstanding efficiency of the solid.
Kunal Khemu who himself is a extremely gifted actor, now exhibits his prowess not solely as a director, however having written the story, screenplay, and dialogues of the movie, he exhibits his mastery in these departments as effectively. His imaginative and prescient to solid actual expertise and never simply fashionable star faces has additionally paid off effectively.
Actors Divyendu Sharma, Prateik Gandhi and Avinash Tiwary who’ve proved their expertise in a number of acclaimed OTT web-series, get to show a brand new side of their expertise with their unbelievable chemistry and very good comedian timing which simply raises the movie a number of notches larger. They’re so pure and infuse a lot life into their characters that the tip result’s simply excellent!
On the face of it, the plot is an easy story of three pals who’ve been collectively since their faculty days and at all times dreamt of taking a visit to Goa on their very own. Nonetheless, the plan by no means materializes and after faculty, they go their separate methods although they do keep up a correspondence via social media. How they meet up after a few years and end up occurring this journey additionally varieties an fascinating facet.
After they arrive on the station to board the Madgaon Specific practice, clashes and disagreements happen and shortly issues begin spiraling uncontrolled. Surprising incidents occur in the course of the journey and so they preserve getting increasingly entangled with none clue to flee. One factor results in one other and to their utmost horror, they discover themselves caught in a drug mafia mess with many individuals after their lives.
Rival gangs with leaders going by the names of ‘Mendonza Bhai’ (performed by Upendra Limaye) and ‘Kanchan Kombdi’ (performed by Chaya Kadam) can’t wait to get their arms on them. There may be additionally a Dr Danny (performed by Remo D’Souza) who’s after them with an ulterior motive and so is the complete Goa police. In addition they cross paths with Nora Fatehi who has an essential position.
One could marvel after two very profitable movies already made on the friendship genre- Dil Chahta Hai and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, what else may be new? Herein lies Kunal Khemu’s acuity as he intelligently steers away from both of those plots to provide you with his personal form of friendship movie which focuses solely on the sequence of incidents and avoids any melodrama or preaching any philosophy.
The Goa state of affairs has been captured very effectively and makes all the pieces very sensible. The incidents are very relatable as this might occur to anyone. Background music is sweet and songs are apt and match into the narrative with out boring the viewer. Producers Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani deserve particular kudos for giving us an ideal household movie with full-on ‘masti’, ‘mazaa’ and complete ‘paisa-vasool’ expertise!
Saying something extra would take away the enjoyable ingredient of the movie. Suffice to say the movie is to not be missed particularly in case you are searching for a hilarious trip to flee the mundane routine of life. You’ll not be disenchanted!
Amidst all of the nonsensical propaganda movies and meaningless half-baked biographies being presently churned out by Bollywood, this out and out comedy movie comes as a breath of contemporary air elevating our hopes for the form of cinema which appears to be quick disappearing from our business’s horizon.
