Go Hindi Movie

Oct 5, 2007 By Jahan Bakshi

It is fitting that the promos of 'Go' declare it to be a Ram Gopal Varma 'flick'- since the word 'film' would perhaps be far too profound to describe something as asinine and juvenile as the latest offering from the RGV stable. It is also fitting that my rating for this 'flick' rhymes rather well with its name.

Director Manish Srivastava's first feature challenges many notions and gives a whole new meaning and dimension to words you thought you understood. The 'plot' redefines the words 'frivolity' and 'stupidity'. Nisha Kothari has been constantly redefining the term 'bimbette' with every 'flick' of hers (no pun intended), and this one is no exception. And some random weird noises created by Amar Mohile set to even more insanely weird words- "Go...Man-go...Go" – are supposed to be 'music' and 'lyrics'.

'Go' for me personally, was a huge 'disappointment'- it wasn't actually half as nerve- wracking as I expected it to be. I was hoping for some kind of cathartic experience, after which I could hopefully have vented all my life's anger, rage and frustration in this review. It even fell short of being awful enough to be a spiteful, vindictive critic's delight. Alas.

Readers often complain that reviewers these days reveal most of the story of the movies they write about. Well, honestly- I won't even bother with this one- the 'plot' is thinner than the soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that has been starved to death. It is amazing that in a country with so many budding writers and talented people with countless exciting stories to tell, it is both appalling and shocking that such stuff even manages to be made and show up on movie screens.

Debutant Gautam Gupta is more wooden than a cricket bat, one of the many gym-made, trying-to-be-cool guys who turn up every now or then in God-forsaken flicks like these. As for Nisha Kothari, she wiggles her bottom and pouts her superbly elastic lips for all their collagen's worth- and behaves like an overgrown four year old. As for the rest- even though they aren't worth a mention- Rajpal Yadav tries to be funny imitating Michael Jackson, while Kay Kay Menon is as bewildered as I was, watching him in something like this.

Do yourself a favour, don't dare go for this one. As for hapless critics like me, well- it's just a professional hazard, I guess.