GOA

GOA

Two big Tamil movies : TAMIZHPADAM(*ing Siva of Chennai 600028 & Saroja fame as hero) & GOA(Venkat Prabhu's third flick after the above said ones) released today. Finally I decided to watch TAMIZHPADAM as the whole movie was a spoofing one & promos were promising. When I reached theatre, two housefull show crowd were there & I was sure that the chances of getting a ticket is less than 1%. So went for GOA. Around 75 people were there. Once the film started, the heavy returns of TAMIZHPADAM made the theatre status as follows

Theatre : Thiyagaraja
Status : Balcony Full, FC : 85%
Showtime & Date : 11.30am, 29-01-2010

After the success of smart entertainers, Chennai 600028 & SA-RO-JA, expectations were high for a Venkat Prabhu movie as the lead stars too were from his previous flicks. But sadly the movie doesn't live upto the hypes & expectations.

 

Story

The story happens in a remote village in Madurai where people are not allowed to go outside the village borders not to introduce new culture and other things to the village. Samikkannu(Premgi Amaran), Vinay(Jai) & Ramarajan(Vaibhav) tries to escape from village. Samikkannu was treated as God's son & a flashback is there for that too. Vinay is the son of a military person & Ramarajan, son a the landlord. All three were punished like not to have any communication anymore. All three escapes to Madurai & there they see Vinay's frined marrying a foreign girl. They also decides to love a foreign girl and settle in foreign. With this aim, all three goes to Madurai to find their love. What happens to them in Goa is the rest of the story.

Performances

As in previous Venkat Prabhu movies, Premgi Amaren steals the show. Don't expect anything new, it's a remix of his previous characters & some mimicking of hit characters of movies. Jai's certain expressions and his ENGLISH were good , otherwise nothing special. Vaibhav scores in certain scenes. Aravind Akash & Sampath as gays were used for comic elements. Sampath played his role with ease with good voice modulation. Heroines Sneha, pair of Vaibhav has nothing special to do, Pia, as Jai's love interest is just for glamour show. The foreign girl who played Jessica as Premgi Amaren's lover was good. Rest of the cast did their part.

Simbhu in his cameo in climax does Manmadhan role again. Prasanna as Sneha's ex-husband was good in one scene because of his dialogues and comic timing. Nayanthara also has nothing to do other than a single smiling shot in the film.

Songs

None of the songs impresses. Some seems to be misplaced and became speedbreaker for the movie. Most of the scenes has BGM of many movies as in other Venkat Prabhu flicks. BGM of Jai-Pia episode was good.

Technical

Editing & Cinematography were good at parts. Only stunt for Premgi Amaren was enjoyable, though a bit over the board. Picturisation of songs were not upto the mark.

Script & Direction

Script by Venkat Prabhu had a promising start. But in the first half, once the characters reached GOA, lack of story & interesting twists made the movie a bit boring one. Director tried his best to make the movie an engaging one & the lead actors did their best for that, but without a proper script, what use??? No elements were there in the movie which makes the audience think what happens next. One such was made towards climax and miserably failed to entertain. Love track of Jai was boring. Director tried to make a fun holiday film, but succeeds only to an extent, only in parts of the movie. Songs in second half were boring and misplaced. The movie strictly remains as a one time watch. On the whole, GOA is a half-baked entertainer.

Verdict : Tads above average
BO verdict : Average

Venkat Prabhu + Chennai 600028 actors always cannot make good entertainers without proper script. If Chennai 600028 was a fun film & SA-RO-JA, a fun thriller, this one makes the audience bored at many places because of no surprises and twists.