Kunal Khemu’s debut directorial enterprise Madgaon Categorical 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 excellent storyline, fast-paced narrative, loads of humorous twists and turns, hilarious dialogues, and the exceptional efficiency of the forged.
Kunal Khemu who himself is a extremely proficient actor, now reveals his prowess not solely as a director, however having written the story, screenplay, and dialogues of the movie, he reveals his mastery in these departments as properly. His imaginative and prescient to forged actual expertise and never simply standard star faces has additionally paid off properly.
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 improbable chemistry and excellent comedian timing which simply raises the movie a number of notches greater. They’re so pure and infuse a lot life into their characters that the top result’s simply excellent!
On the face of it, the plot is an easy story of three associates 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 school, they go their separate methods although they do be in contact via social media. How they meet up after a few years and end up occurring this journey additionally kinds an attention-grabbing facet.
Once they arrive on the station to board the Madgaon Categorical prepare, clashes and disagreements happen and shortly issues begin spiraling uncontrolled. Sudden incidents occur in the course of the journey they usually maintain getting an increasing number of 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 fingers on them. There’s additionally a Dr Danny (performed by Remo Fernandez) who’s after them with an ulterior motive and so is all the Goa police. Additionally they cross paths with Nora Fatehi who has an vital position.
One could surprise after two very profitable movies already made on the friendship genre- Dil Chahta Hai and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, what else might be new? Herein lies Kunal Khemu’s acuity as he intelligently steers away from both of those plots to give you his personal sort of friendship movie which focuses solely on the collection of incidents and avoids any melodrama or preaching any philosophy.
The Goa state of affairs has been captured very properly and makes all the things 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 whole ‘paisa-vasool’ expertise!
Saying something extra would take away the enjoyable aspect of the movie. Suffice to say the movie is to not be missed particularly in case you are on the lookout for a hilarious trip to flee the mundane routine of life. You’ll not be upset!
Amidst all of the nonsensical propaganda movies and meaningless half-baked biographies being at present churned out by Bollywood, this out and out comedy movie comes as a breath of recent air elevating our hopes for the sort of cinema which appears to be quick disappearing from our business’s horizon.
