Avoid it like the plague! This nightmarish comedy or nerve wrecking horror flick is it, is a confusing tale woven with sheer callousness and laxity. At the outset, the film seems like an infinite desperation on the part of the director to ‘be there and do that’, and as for the actors, they are made to engage in crass buffoonery in moments of comedy and horror alike! As the movie progresses, you realise its a boorish vengeance by the Director, Dilip Veerendra Sood (gosh! ever heard of him?) against someone as unassuming as his pesky neighbour.
Chhodon Na Yaar is a wannabe horror flick with all cliches of Bollywood accomodated in it. Reason enough to raise to your feet and kick in anger.
Three students — Ravi (Jimmy Shergill), Shiv (errr..Kabir) and Sunny (Farid... who?) of ‘The Delhi Institute of Mass Communication’ set out to the North-East jungles in pursuit of their dream project that involves cracking a myth.
And this, dear friends, becomes their mission to save the nation from the gluttonous ghost that has allegedly been gorging lives. HELP!
Don’t bother figuring the ‘how’ and ‘when’ of things. The trio drive off on this ‘mission’, while driving audiences higher up the wall, every single minute. And what becomes of this mission is purely unparliamentary business.
You understand this as, much to your aggrevated infuriation at the end of the movie, the title is flashed into your face, with a tagline saying - its just a film! Now, its time for your grand hair-tearing finale for being taken on such an unsolicited ride, and how! Such audacity, one fumes.
Abrupt, jerky and indecisive. Nothing captures your attention. Anand Raaj Anand renders one hummable tune - Kasak uthe man mein, else this project was to keep him engaged in Bollywood, seems like.
Had cinematography been a wee bit better, it could have helped efface the annoying performances by Farid, Kabir ,and Kim Sharma, who by the way is Jimmy Shergill’s love interest in the movie.
Handsome, charming and capable, Shergill should have known better than to sign up this film, especially at this juncture of his career when he deserves a good script and sensible direction. Wasted talent, one only regrets.
