Madgaon Express

Name: Madgaon Express
Director: Kunal Khemu
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2024-03-22
Rating: 1.5
Cast: Divyendu Sharma, Pratik Gandhi, Avinash Tiwary, Nora Fatehi, Upendra Limaye

Directed by Kunal Khemu

TezScore30/100 Unfavourable reception Unfavourable Early coverage · 1 scored of 2 Indian-media reviews How TezScore works IMDb 7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 73%

143 min 22 Mar 2024

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Synopsis

Madgaon Express

In 1998 in Mumbai, Dhanush "Dodo" Sawant, Pratik "Pinku" Garodia and Ayush Gupta, who have just passed 10th standard, dream of going to Goa after their board examinations. Due to their parents' reluctance, they are unable to do so. In 2003, the friends again plan the trip after their graduation. But they meets with an accident as soon as they begin their journey. The plan is yet again put on the back burner. A few years later, Pinku moves to Cape Town and Ayush to New York City. Pinku and Ayush have succeeded in life, earning well and leading comfortable lives. Meanwhile, Dodo is struggling to keep a steady job. He keeps in touch with Pinku and Ayush on social media. To catch up, Dodo starts faking a glamourous lifestyle on social media using editing software. In 2015, Pinku and Ayush decide to fly down to Mumbai. They inform Dodo about it and also tell him that they will stay at his 'penthouse'. Dodo gets tense and suggests that, instead, they should fulfill their plan of visiting Goa. Pinku and Ayush agree. Unable to afford expensive flight tickets, Dodo books three tickets to the Madgaon Express train. Pinku and Ayush hate the idea, but agree on the condition that they will return by flight only. Before boarding the train, Pinku’s bag accidentally gets swapped with another man. They discover that the bag contains a cash, a gun and a key to a hotel room. They agree to get rid of the bag. Upon reaching their destination, they head straight to the beach.

Director: Kunal Khemu
Release: 22 Mar 2024
Run time: 143 min
Language: Hindi

Reviews

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Critics' consensus

Unfavourable

Across 2 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Madgaon Express, reception is unfavourable. The scored review is 30/100.

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Rediff

It is interesting to see how he wields his comedic chops in a completely different form. His script is in-tune with the deliciously wacky premise that is jam-packed with timely jokes, sight gags and set pieces that would tickle to the audience's sense of the preposterous. It's like a cross between a Pineapple Express and Lootcase (which stars Kemmu in the lead role), with numerous hilarious put-downs and sarcastic snapshots that are in-tune with the absurdities of the premise and its characters. For all the drugs and a fair amount of gore in it, Madgaon Express is never crude or lewd. In fact, the film is strangely sweet, even when its eccentric characters are bleeding to death.

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The Indian Express

★★★★★ ★★★★★ 1.5

This is a threesome which can lift any scene, but the lacklustre writing lets them down. Divyenndu as the no-account fellow out to impress his old friends, both of whom who’ve done well for themselves — Gandhi who lives with his mother in Cape Town, and Tiwary as a bachelor in New York — shine only sporadically. The one who does best is Gandhi: letting it all hang out under the influence of the white powder, he cracks you up. Too many of the jokes settle with a clunk. A line in a song which tries to liven up a situation where the bad guys snooze and the good guys try and escape, talks about having no fun. It could have been a descriptor for the film as a whole.

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