BOMBAY TO GOA
LAUGHTER CHALLENGED!
By Vishal Verma

Rating:- *

What is it?
It’s a painful job to tickle anyone’s funny bones Agreed, but it’s more painful to experience a directionless, senseless humor for 2+ hours. This pathetic take off on the highly amusing original ‘Bombay to Goa’ which was the launch pad for the iconic Mr. Bachchan as a hero challenges your senses for unwanted gags and nonsense humor.

Raj Pendurkar’s Bombay To Goa is a unique film in it sense that in spite of having those infamous stand up comedians, Vijay Raaz steals the show and thus establishes the difference between mimicking and screen acting in this misadventure of all sorts. The films characters and plot are ongoing chapters of inconvenience through out the flick.

Whats it all about?
There’s one Das (Vijay Raaz) and his brother – in-law Lal (Sunil Pal) they always share the same dream to become a Big Gharwala. Lal wins 2 lacks in a competition (which one god knows?). Lal plans to start a travel agency but finds money as an issue. So Das creates a Bus which is bigger than the make –up vans in India or the automobile delivery vans in west. Welds everything available on this planet to create this out of this world vehicle which heads towards Goa.

All sorts of characters board this bus like this guy who is taller than Kutumbminar and seems to be coming out straight from a grave in Ramsay’s Horror flick.  There’s a Anna with two ex-bardancers, an enuch with two lavnis . a house of disease, an aspiring writer played by Raju Shrivastav who has already given a pathetic take on Mehmood. A Doctor (not for humans), and a 20 year jail bhogi who is on the hunt by policemen for hooplas hooplas digged somewhere done Goa. And also an Abdul Kareem who has fled with a Mohatarma who’s always clad in a burkha. Wait, Now I am falling short of space over here. Eventually the bus turns into a mad house and later there is this crazy treasure hunt which makes you blunt in this so called laugh riot.

What to look out for?
Vijay Raaz stands tall in front of those stands–up no performers. They are better in stand up performances and screen acting is quite a different platform. Though they are highly talent as comedians.

What Not?
Everything is out of place in this unique feature that scores near zero in every department. It has nothing to offer. A perfect example of an immature flick right from frame one.

Conclusion: Do not board this vehicle