Madgaon Express Review: A Deliriously Funny Bro-Mantic Laugh Riot

A nonetheless from the movie. (courtesy: YouTube)

The movie might 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 business that has all however forgotten the artwork of real humour, and coming in an period of overwhelming cynicism, the bro-mantic chortle 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 vital methods to the spirit of their Dil Chahta Hai. When it comes to fashion and substance, nonetheless, 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 robust, fraught instances that we stay in.      

The movie revolves round three Nineties Bombay boys. Dwelling is a far much less traumatic period, they, lured by the straightforward promise of seashores, babes in bikinis and booze, dream of happening a visit to Goa. Their dad and mom put a spanner within the works. The will 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 – ordinary fibber Dhanush “Dodo” (Divyenndu), robust, brooding lad Ayush Gupta (Avinash Tiwary) and momma’s boy Pratik “Pinku” Garodia (Pratik Gandhi) – go their very own methods. Ayush leads to New York Metropolis and Pinku heads out to Cape City. The 2 obtain success and earn a living.

Dodo stays caught in his middle-class Mumbai pad along with his father who has no endurance for his wayward methods. The younger man aspires to change into any individual sometime. Misplaced within the identity-concealing labyrinths of the social media, Dodo receives a actuality test within the type of an final from his dad. Discover a job inside every week or be ready to stay on the streets.

The cavalierly photoshopped world of thrilling outings and celeb 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 just a few 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 rather a lot to cover. So, Dodo means that the trio drop the concept of spending time in Mumbai and head to Goa as a substitute to fulfil a dream they’ve nurtured since they had been in class. However he will get off on the fallacious 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. After they realise the error, they’re already on their technique to Madgaon. The bag that Pinku now has in his possession incorporates 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 reasonably woman, Tasha (Nora Fatehi), who wants a gentle provide of medication for her events, an all-women gang led by a curmudgeonly Kanchan Komdi (Chhaya Kadam), drug supplier Mendoza (Upendra Limaye) and Physician Danny (Remo D’Souza), who helps Pinku when he’s laid low by an unintended 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 part of the chase, throwing every part right into a tailspin that reveals 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 executed and dusted.

Aside from 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 fashion to suit the character he performs. Within the guise of the stoic sceptic, Avinash Tiwari exudes power and solidity, transmitting mirth along 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 mates as issues spiral uncontrolled, Divyenndu is a veritable livewire. His comedian talents 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 journey that doesn’t run out of steam even when sure components in it’d look like tilting ever so barely in the direction of the over-consciously gimmicky.

Hop on. It’s well worth the worth of the ticket. All the way in which.