Friday, April 10, 2015

Movie Review BAREFOOT TO GOA Had Good Intent But Amateurish Execution


Film will release today and should release across 100 screens. Film had no chances at box office. Film will depend on exceptional word of mouth to survive as it has no buzz or marketing awareness and that looks impossible.


'Barefoot To Goa' is crowd funded project and has done round of various festivals. Film has no star cast and has simple storytelling with good actors as USP. 


Despite being old, ailing and left to fend for herself in Goa by her busy son and insensitive daughter-in-law, who live in Mumbai, Kantabai (Farrukh Jaffar) hopes to reunite with her family someday. She persistently writes to them in spite of receiving no reply. When her grandchildren Prakhar (Prakhar Morcchale) and Diya (Saara Nahar) , stumble upon those unread letters hidden in their mother's closet, they decide to bring her to Mumbai on their own, thus embarking on a journey to Goa. What happens throughout the journey forms the rest of the story. 


Performance wise Saara Nahar is most natural and shines as promising child artist. Farrukh Jaffar is good in brief role. Rest all actors keep looking in camera which is very irritating and the level of performance is two notch below than TV serials of today's times. 


Film has nice premise of story but screenplay dips big time in after initial half an hour. Film becomes predictable and finds very cliche uninteresting situations. Film has no songs which is good. Art department brings authentic look and editing is uneven. 




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