Go Goa Gone features Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das and Anand Tiwari in the lead.
Mumbai:
Director duo Raj Nidimoru andKrishna DK, who are looking forward to the release of thefirst zombie film Go Goa Gone, are promoting 'Say no todrugs' message through it.(Read: Go Goa Gone to clash with Karan Johar's Gippi)
"As the name suggests, the film is related to Goa butnothing derogatory. The people in Mumbai and elsewhere have aperception about Goa that it is a place where people go tosit, relax, party, chill, but all in good sense. What happensthere is our version of the story," the duo told PTI."But there is a message at the end of the film - Sayno to drugs. If you do drugs then you will turn into azombie," they said. (Read: Saif will help pull crowd, says director)
Co-directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK of Shor inthe City fame, it is being promoted as India's first zombiefilm, which will see Saif Ali Khan playing a Russian mafia,the zombie-hunter, and others including Kunal Khemu, Vir Das,Anand Tiwari and Puja Gupta.
Since it is a zombie film, it was quite tough for thedirectors to get the look right."It is very tough because it is the first of its kindhere. It is the most challenging thing. The prosthetics andexpertise is not there. We have found a lot of experts fromround the world. We did a lot of experiments on looks overskype to get the look right," the duo said.
"But at the same time we did not intend to go too goryjust to shock or scare people. We wanted to get the rightzombie effect, they look original and authentic," they added.The makers roped in experts from Australia, Shaun andTom Luthara, who also teamed up with make-up guys here to makethe zombie's look authentic.
The makers did zombie workshops as they felt theactors need to be trained in their body language, etc.Releasing on May 10, the film is produced by Saif. Thedirector duo are not thinking much about box officecollection, but hope the audience will like the film.
"As the name suggests, the film is related to Goa butnothing derogatory. The people in Mumbai and elsewhere have aperception about Goa that it is a place where people go tosit, relax, party, chill, but all in good sense. What happensthere is our version of the story," the duo told PTI."But there is a message at the end of the film - Sayno to drugs. If you do drugs then you will turn into azombie," they said. (Read: Saif will help pull crowd, says director)
Co-directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK of Shor inthe City fame, it is being promoted as India's first zombiefilm, which will see Saif Ali Khan playing a Russian mafia,the zombie-hunter, and others including Kunal Khemu, Vir Das,Anand Tiwari and Puja Gupta.
Since it is a zombie film, it was quite tough for thedirectors to get the look right."It is very tough because it is the first of its kindhere. It is the most challenging thing. The prosthetics andexpertise is not there. We have found a lot of experts fromround the world. We did a lot of experiments on looks overskype to get the look right," the duo said.
"But at the same time we did not intend to go too goryjust to shock or scare people. We wanted to get the rightzombie effect, they look original and authentic," they added.The makers roped in experts from Australia, Shaun andTom Luthara, who also teamed up with make-up guys here to makethe zombie's look authentic.
The makers did zombie workshops as they felt theactors need to be trained in their body language, etc.Releasing on May 10, the film is produced by Saif. Thedirector duo are not thinking much about box officecollection, but hope the audience will like the film.
