You feel sad for Goa. If you never experienced the sun and sand of Goa, and instead, decided to watch director Suryaa’s Goa, you might just never venture to those parts. While he already had the entire roadmap for the film as it is a remake, the director seems to have lost his way and channelled Goa in an entirely wrong direction.
The Kannada version of the popular and successful Tamil film loses track right from the beginning. The film is comedy of errors involving three buddies — Surya (Sriki), Swamy (Komal) and Ramaraja (Tarun Chandra), who dream of an idyllic life which they believe they will achieve by marrying foreigners and in pursuit of this aim, they head to Goa. There, they bump into two gay hoteliers who invite them to their hotel. Here, the three guys meet the leading ladies, Sharmeila Mandre, Sonu Gowda and London-based theatre artist Rachel Waiz.
The rest of the film focusses on the relationships they forge while they hunt for their dream women with their foreign passports. Will they succeed in their quest or will they end up going back to their village?
Even though this film borrows heavily from the Tamil film, it ends up with nothing more than some forced comedy. The characters get involved in some mindless twists and the film is an example of a haphazard, unsophisticated overall horrendous cinematic effort. The director Suryaa makes sure that his film is the perfect cure for an insomniac. Goa doesn’t score even with its ensemble cast that includes Komal, Sriki, Tarun, Sharmiela Mandre, Sonu Gowda, Dharma, Ashok, Shobaraj and Ramesh Bhat. of Even Rachel Waiz’s casting is wasted as is the blink-and-miss appearance of Nayantara. The music by Arjun Janya doesn’t do any justice to the colourful destination nor does the picturisation by cameraperson Rajesh Katta evoke any sense of serenity. The film is not worth any time, instead ,you would be better advised to save your money and build a holiday fund to the real Goa.