Govinda Naam Mera Review – Rediff.com movies
To call your film after Bollywood’s most dhinchak hero and craft one thing so uninteresting is sacrilege, says Sukanya Verma.
Deception is the secret.
For some time, it seems as if Govinda Naam Mera harks again to the period of tacky entertainers when the David Dhawan-Govinda mixture bore the stamp of raunchy romance and bawdy humour.
Besides the closely polygamous vibe of its posters, evoking Saajan Chale Sasural and Gharwali Baharwali, is only a entrance for this black comedy that has extra twists than timepass on its thoughts.
You’d assume that may be a good factor; we have had a number of within the style this yr — Darlings, Good Luck Jerry and An Motion Hero, however none as insipid as Govinda Naam Mera.
To call your film after Bollywood’s most dhinchak hero and craft one thing so uninteresting is sacrilege.
Shashank Khaitan, the director behind the Dulhania films (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Badrinath Ki Dulhania) and Dhadak, commits this crime regardless of a troika of skilful actors at his disposal.
Slapstick comedy is not a pure match on Vicky Kaushal, however he submits himself sportingly to the stupidity and comes out unscathed.
Kiara Advani’s vitality is able to much more heavy lifting than it will get credit score for.
Someone unleash the vixen.
Her co-star definitely has.
It is not a prolonged position, however Bhumi Pednekar is sass personified and cakewalks her manner taking part in a personality that treats everybody round her like filth.
For all its makes an attempt at subversion, Govinda Naam Mera can not rise above its pile of cliches and contrivances.
From its opening voice-over carping concerning the large dangerous metropolis of Mumbai for the nth time to its adherence to the Abbas-Mustan faculty of settling scores, it by no means turns into the caper Khaitan had in thoughts.
Issues begin out on a reasonably ballsy notice with Govinda’s (Vicky Kaushal) again story.
A struggling Bollywood choreographer, this pushover son of a bald motion director and junior artist is caught in an unpleasant authorized battle over a ramshackle bungalow along with his deceased father’s different spouse and son.
When not having fun with randy goals about fellow choreographer and girlfriend Suku (Kiara Advani), he will get bossed round by his sofa potato spouse, Gauri (Bhumi Pednekar).
All dressed up in slinky negligees and nowhere to go, Govinda’s crabby half seems to be in a self-imposed quarantine demanding ‘do crore do, divorce lo‘. The rationale for Gauri and Govinda’s fickle estrangement is left as unclear as their enthusiasm for an open marriage.
Relationships take a backseat when somebody of significance immediately drops lifeless and Govinda-Suku nervously take cost of issues amidst a motley crowd of authorized eagles, lenders, brokers, builders, drug sellers and cops sizzling on their pursuit or haggling them for cash.
Double-crossing companions, tattle story home assist, fee hungry brokers well-versed in crooked dealings abound as Govinda Naam Mera tries so onerous to be enjoyable it forgets to have any.
Having starry-eyed characters working in Bollywood does not quantity to any meta humour but expects us to titter at innuendoes like Ma-Ka-Bo as brief for Malad, Kandivali, Borivali or Renuka Shahane (as Govinda’s crotchety mum) parodying facial paralysis.
Individuals drop figures of XYZ crores each two seconds, play a endless sport of backstabbing, the outwitting shenanigans get tedious early within the present.
By the point the reality reveals itself, which we’re just about pushed in a nook to be taught, no person cares.
Govinda Naam Mera streams on Disney+Hotstar.
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