Tuesday, February 10, 2009

All out of luck!

A gazillion self help books will tell you in several different ways how we get exactly what we visualise for ourselves. Going in exactly the same direction is “Bad Luck Govind”, where a pessimist Govind (played by one-time VJ Gaurav Kapoor) is convinced that he brings bad luck to everyone around him – be it cows, cars or chawl Bad Luck Govindgoons. So while he tries to flee his bad fortune by moving from Delhi to Mumbai, it only gets worse once he gets mixed up with the local thugs, who begin to exploit his ‘bad luck effect’ to ruin things for their rival gang.

While the concept could have been shaped up into a laugh riot, Gaurav’s really realistic portrayal of a loser is quite a dampener! The heroine, Hrishitaa Bhatt, is hardly noticeable. The couple Archana Puran Singh (in a cameo) and Parmeet Sethi keep this film afloat, while the few laughs in this film are largely thanks to Zakir Hussain, who plays a thug transforming into a woman due to the rival gang exchanging his body building supplements with hormone changing pills!....Continue

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