Andhra Pradesh

A comedy gone horribly wrong Film Review

One way ticket to hell: Raju Srivastava and others in Bombay to Goa

Film: Bombay to Goa

Cast: Raju Shrivastava, Sunil Pal, Ahsaan Qureshi

Director: Raj Pendurkar

In a season of many a sad song, this has to be the saddest. It hurts, it saddens. It reduces you to tears. It is not a tragedy where a skilful director takes you to another level. Director Raj Pendurkar’s film is a comedy gone horribly, horribly wrong. It is the kind of film that once inside the hall you kick yourself for being gullible enough to pay for admission in the first place. Nothing but a motley collection of comedians who have had a good run on television, here the script seems to have been written to accommodate their one-liners. The trip to Goa is wholly incidental, the story non-existent. There is a guy who wants to be the best bus driver, another a conductor, a guy who is a doctor, another a bar owner, a couple of were-bar girls! They all head to sun and sand destination. It is all a sham as Pendurkar’s sole intention is to throw some one-liners for each of his popular comedians to have their moment under the sun. Included among them are the likes of Sunil Pal, Ahsaan Qureshi and Raju Shrivastava, with Jagdeep making an uncalled for comeback. Worse is to follow. They all speak in a manner good enough to evoke ridicule. The worst comes as the package. The one-liners are trenchant enough to hurt the most elastic of moralities in the hall. They often leave you wondering what are the Censor guys there for? Sexual innuendoes, double entendres, the film is replete with them all. Vulgar in content, amateurish in technique, very poor in craft. It is crass, crude, crap. In short, “Bombay to Goa”, is a one-way ticket to hell.

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