Goa

You have a string of great ideas that you would put in a movie, but no story. So you string these great ideas and jokes together and in between place some songs and a half baked story and voila! You have Goa. I like Venkat Prabhu and he did an ok job with his screenplay's till now (Chennai 28 & saroja) but this time around, he should have hired a good screen writer and a very good editor. I love the irreverence with which he treats certain scenes. A few examples - the statutory warning against smoking changed a teeny bit to hilarious results. The usual introductory aarthi of the amman where the prayer is for rain, well being of all and ofcourse that the movie should do well in b & c centres :) A song with Premji giving a "Tamil Nadu"( a map) to the foreign girl and ofcourse one of the couples in the movie is a bit unusual (hehe I wont spoil the fun)

The Story:
Three guys from a very isolated village near Madurai or Theni. Jai is the wannabe NRI with some great lines, Premji is the guy given to the temple - saamikannu in a hilarious role and the third guy (i forgot his name) is the village casanova. The movie follows their adventures or rather misadventures. And after all the misadventures the movie has had, I was hoping they would have put in some more effort to atleast edit it well and provide a strong story line.May be they thought the publicity (although bad) was good enough. Anyways its supported by the funny scenes and a nice follow up at the ending, though the second half of the movie looks like a mish mash of clips from different movies.

Some of the jokes are great, though most of them have been stretched to almost breaking point. Premgi as usual provides the comic - er relief and Sampath!! I'm not going to give away the suspense but he blew me away! From the adorable macho villain in Saroja to...well, just the opposite! The women provide adequate support, with Pia looking great, a foreign girl who does her stuff and Sneha looking trim and doing a pretty good job.

A 5/10