A nonetheless from the movie. (courtesy: YouTube)
The movie may properly have been titled Madcap Specific. Actor Kunal Kemmu’s directorial debut, Madgaon Specific, is a wild and wacky comedy of errors that hardly ever, if ever, pauses for a breather. The movie is deliriously humorous because it strikes effortlessly and incessantly between slapstick and glowing silver-tongued wit.
Rising from a bloated film trade that has all however forgotten the artwork of real humour, and coming in an period of overwhelming cynicism, the bro-mantic snicker riot written by the director himself, is a free-flowing mix of Go Goa Gone and Dil Chahta Hai whereas steadfastly being its personal beast.
Madgaon Specific, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Leisure, harks again in important methods to the spirit of their Dil Chahta Hai. By way of type and substance, nevertheless, it’s a movie that wishes us to dismiss our worst reverses with peals of laughter, which, not no tangentially, is what the physician would maybe order as salve for the powerful, fraught occasions that we dwell in.
The movie revolves round three Nineties Bombay boys. Residing is a far much less tense period, they, lured by the easy promise of seashores, babes in bikinis and booze, dream of occurring a visit to Goa. Their dad and mom put a spanner within the works. The need stays unfulfilled.
Publish-college, of their early 20s, they resolve to defy their households and throw warning to the wind. Their enthusiasm backfires. The journey to Goa is shelved but once more.
After the noughties, the three males – routine fibber Dhanush “Dodo” (Divyenndu), powerful, brooding lad Ayush Gupta (Avinash Tiwary) and momma’s boy Pratik “Pinku” Garodia (Pratik Gandhi) – go their very own methods. Ayush results in New York Metropolis and Pinku heads out to Cape City. The 2 obtain success and earn money.
Dodo stays caught in his middle-class Mumbai pad together with his father who has no persistence for his wayward methods. The younger man aspires to change into any person sometime. Misplaced within the identity-concealing labyrinths of the social media, Dodo receives a actuality verify within the type of an final from his dad. Discover a job inside every week or be ready to dwell on the streets.
The cavalierly photoshopped world of thrilling outings and movie star sightings that Dodo has constructed for himself on “Crazebook” is at risk of coming crashing down. When all appears misplaced, his two previous buddies reconnect with him and announce their plan to land in Mumbai and spend time with him in his penthouse for a couple of days.
Therein lies the rub. Like his high-flying way of life and the C-Class limousine that he flashes in his social media posts, the plush pad that he claims to personal is a figment of his creativeness.
He has so much to cover. So, Dodo means that the trio drop the thought of spending time in Mumbai and head to Goa as a substitute to fulfil a dream they’ve nurtured since they have been in class. However he will get off on the flawed foot.
Hassle erupts even earlier than the journey begins. The asthmatic Pinku’s duffel bag will get unintentionally exchanged at a cigarette kiosk on the railway station platform. Once they realise the error, they’re already on their approach to Madgaon. The bag that Pinku now has in his possession accommodates wads of foreign money notes and a gun. Each are actual.
So are the chaos and confusion that hit Ayush, Pinku and Dodo as soon as they’re in Goa. A stash of cocaine, a fairly lady, Tasha (Nora Fatehi), who wants a gradual provide of medicine for her events, an all-women gang led by a curmudgeonly Kanchan Komdi (Chhaya Kadam), drug vendor Mendoza (Upendra Limaye) and Physician Danny (Remo D’Souza), who helps Pinku when he’s laid low by an unintentional overdose, mix to set off a sequence of mishaps.
To make issues worse, the police plunge into the imbroglio. The three clueless lads take to their heels. Kanchan and Mendoza be a part of the chase, throwing every little thing right into a tailspin that exhibits no indicators of ending.
Madgaon Specific is one rigmarole that by no means appears near overstaying its welcome, with even the post-climax scenes – they interrupt the tip credit in a novel, cockeyed trend – springing a great deal of surprises and forcing the viewers to hold on till it’s all finished and dusted.
Other than a script that by no means stops delivering beneficiant doses of hilarity, the comedian timing that the three actors obtain offers the riotous farce its vibrancy. Every of the three principal actors efficiently employs his personal type to suit the character he performs. Within the guise of the stoic sceptic, Avinash Tiwari exudes energy and solidity, transmitting mirth together with his measured underplaying.
Pratik Gandhi is the quintessential softie, accident susceptible, allergic to mud and weak to the worst misfortunes within the unlikeliest of locations. He fleshes out the bundle of susceptibilities with ability and sensitivity. Because the loquacious Dodo who has an excessive amount of to hide from his associates as issues spiral uncontrolled, Divyenndu is a veritable livewire. His comedian skills are the sturdiest of the wheels on which Madgaon Specific runs.
The supporting actors – Nora Fatehi, Chhaya Kadam, Upendra Limaye and Remo D’Souza (in what’s billed as a particular look) – are all completely in sync with the impressed lunacy of Madgaon Specific, a experience that doesn’t run out of steam even when sure parts in it’d look like tilting ever so barely in direction of the over-consciously gimmicky.
Hop on. It’s well worth the value of the ticket. All the best way.
Forged:
Divyenndu, Avinash Tiwary, Pratik Gandhi, Chhaya Kadam, Upendra Limaye, Nora Fatehi
Director:
Kunal Kemmu
