Govinda Naam Mera follows the story of a protagonist who is fighting a legal battle against his step-brother with his wife and girlfriend for company until he gets embroiled in a murder. The story is touted as a black crime comedy but the pitch of the dialogues are so shrilling-ly high that I did end up with a splitting headache. The screenplay of more than 2 hours meant that the torture was also stretched beyond limits.

Within the first 20 minutes of the drama I did get a gist of how bad and ridiculous the film actually is. So in case you are interested, you are introduced to the loud mouthed protagonist and a series of buffoons around him in the most preposterous manner. The proceedings are loud and unfunny and that is when I knew that everyone cannot be an Akshay Kumar(who has a terrific knack of extracting humour even with an outrageous setup) with this brand of comedy. Here it seemed as if the writers were trying to punch your stomach into making you laugh your guts out. End result : I ran out of guts(pun intended).

It is not easy to construct a black comedy simply because you need to be sharp with your writing and frequently create moments of madness during the course of the drama. But it does not help when you are pretending to be funny whereas in reality even a friend of mine with a very bad sense of humour did seem hilarious as compared to this rather silly drama. I wonder who approved this dogsh*t from Dharma. Were the writers not aware of what a ridiculously bad script this is? It is one thing to be silly but be very self aware about it. But here, the silliness quotient was way below room temperature yet it gave me an impression that the makers thought that this was a rather intelligent drama.

About halfway through the film, the drama wishes to shift tones with the introduction of a conflict that is a murder in this case. And I thought right, things will get better. But the mess continued to worsen to an extent where the drama did become unbearable. The writers may have been caught in a dilemma of whether they wanted the film to be a thriller or a comedy, the end result being not a thriller and definitely not a comedy. It was a hot mess that reminded me of very bad films like Heropanti 2 and Liger. There was absolutely no structure to the drama whatsoever. So even the twists and turns do fall flat. The drama does try to end on a high by trying to be clever than it actually is. But I did see that twist coming way before and the only thing that I wished to end was my misery. In other words, the screenplay is not bad, it is ridiculously bad!