REVIEW: Bad Luck Govind is a torture

The protagonist's bad luck seems to have carried forward to the fate of the film, it seems. Director Varun Khanna's third film – his first two being Beyond Honor (2004) and American Blend (2006) – comes across as having been made in a very confused state of mind.

From its promos and creatives, Bad Luck Govind – Mukaddar Ka Bandar seems like a good concept to make a film. But the filmmaker's vision just does not translate on to celluloid the way he wanted to. It would've made for a good book, probably. But a film cannot be told like a book. It has to be scripted with a proper beginning, middle and a convincing end.

About the film

Anyway, so Govind (Gaurav Kapur) is this stick thin, ordinary boy, working as something of a production assistant for a TV channel in Delhi. His problem in life is not that he is unlucky, but that his luck is bad for others around him. (People fall off bicycles and cows stop producing milk.)

Well, most people in today's cutthroat scenario would've been pretty happy with this, but not for our good boy Govind. The boy can't take it no more when he messes things up at the shoot of star anchor Mamta's show (Archana Puran Singh in a 'cleavage special appearance').

Govind decides to leave Delhi for Mumbai the same night. On reaching Mumbai he finds that his luggage has been stolen. He ends up at a local hospital to donate some sperm so he could earn some quick cash.

The 'heroine' enters here – Dr Anu Fernandes (Hrishitaa Bhatt), hardly looking like the female lead. Govind bumps into wannabe actor Vishal (Amit Mistry) who takes him along.

The film is all right up to this point. But soon it takes such a turn that you don't know what's happening. Vishal takes Govind to meet Kapoor (Parmeet Sethi, wasted), a local bookie under a mob guy Mahalkar (Govind Namdev). For the next 30 minutes, all you hear is the names Pandey (Lalit Mohan Tiwari), Talpade (Ganesh Yadav) and Kripalani (Zakir Hussain). But you don't know what they have to do with the life of ol' Govind.

FIRST LOOK: Bad Luck Govind