Hardik (Kunal Khemu) and Luv (Vir Das) are two dope-heads, living with their roommate/friend Bunny (Anand Tiwari). After Hardik loses his job and Luv gets dumped by his girlfriend, both decide to tag along with Bunny to Goa to relax. In Goa, Luv falls for Luna (Puja Gupta), and she invites the guys to a rave party, organised by the Russian mafia, which is being held on a secluded island. At the party a new drug, D2RF, is launched. None of the friends take it as it's very expensive. The next morning, the three roommates find that the island has been infected by zombies, and the three men save Luna from her villa and stay together in hopes of surviving. A Russian mafioso, Boris (Saif Ali Khan, originally from Delhi/Dilli), arrives and reveals himself as a zombie slayer.

Boris, his partner Nikolai, the three boys and Luna plan to use the boat they had used to travel to the island to escape from it. Finally, after escaping the forest, they discover that the mainland has also been infested by the zombies, forcing them to find another way to survive.Boris tells them the boat will come back to the original place by rotating the island as the boat was taken by a zombie.They find a home fully vacant and decide to stay there. Boris leaves the four of them in the house saying he has important work with Nikolai. At night after Boris leaves, the zombies find the house and attack the four of them. They run away from the zombies and reach the rave party area looking for food. There, too, they are attacked by zombies. Bunny gets trapped in a tent and is seemingly killed by zombies. The three manage to escape with the help of Boris and Nikolai: who arrive just in time. On the way Nicolai gets bitten by a zombie so he stays behind in the forest. The four are grief-stricken.

Luna realises Boris had gone back to obtain his expensive Cocaine. Whilst waiting for the boat to arrive, Hardik gets a call from Bunny saying he's alive and on top of a tower. The four of them go to rescue him where Boris is surrounded by the zombies and the four youngsters escape.

When they reach Boris's jeep, Bunny tells them that he threw cocaine at the zombies which were coming to attack him. The mixing of the red pill and cocaine made them still. They go back to save Boris, and throw the cocaine packets towards the sky and ask Boris to shoot it. This trick works and all the zombies come to a stand still.

They leave the island coming to a conclusion that "drugs fuck you up".

When they arrive at the shore of Goa, they see that the settlement is burning and everything is damaged. All five take their guns out and the movie ends there on the note - "The End..is near", signalling a zombie apocalypse.

Cast

• Saif Ali Khan as Boris
• Kunal Khemu as Hardik
• Vir Das as Luv
• Anand Tiwari as Bunny
• Puja Gupta as Luna
• Ross Bucharn as Nikolai
• Meenal Thakur as Priyanka
• Larissa Bonesi as Simonen
• Pitobash Tripathy as Drug Dealer in the song "Slowly Slowly"
• Soha Ali Khan as Hardik's Ex Girlfriend (cameo)
• Krishna D.K. as Man Hiding from Zombies in Tent (cameo)
• Hardik Malaviya as Zombie (cameo)

Development

For his role in the film as Russian mafioso turned zombie hunter, Boris, Saif Ali Khan who had no experience of portraying such a character, was given the book The Zombie Survival Guide by the directors. Kunal Khemu was associated with the film writing, and it was his idea to get Saif Ali Khan on board.

The initial idea for the film was to make a crime comedy genre film, but then a zombie comedy was eventually finalised.

Promotion

The film was publicized as India's first "Zom-Com".^[8]

The Volkswagen Polo used in the film was selected from an audition named as "My Car Superstar!" with association with Volkswagen India.^{[citation needed]}

The music was composed by the duo Sachin - Jigar. The lyrics were written by Priya Panchal and Amitabh Bhattacharya, and songs feature the voices of Jigar Saraiya, Talia Bentson, Sachin Sanghvi, Priya Panchal, and Shreya Ghoshal.

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the movie 3.5/5 stars and stated that "On the whole, GO GOA GONE is experimental since something like this has never been attempted earlier".^[9] Meena Iyer from the Times of India gave the movie 3/5 stars and said "Go Goa Gone is positively different from anything you have seen before".^[10] Shubir Rishi for Rediff.com said "Go Goa Gone is a fun watch. There are plenty of innocent-sounding, slow-exploding one-liners, which are funny".^[11] Namrata Joshi of Outlook India summarised by saying "It's fun, sharp, smart and irreverent. Pushes many of our sanctimonious envelopes." ^[12]