Fatigued Govinda totally out of step

AA GAYA HERO Direction: Dipankar Senapati Actors: Govinda, Ashutosh Rana, Makarand Deshpande, Chandrachur Singh Rating:

Govinda is back, as a hero, in a film titled Aa Gaya Hero — and it’s so bad, it’s almost good.

Inspector Ravindra Verma (Govinda, still stuck in the ’90s) is after a terrorist who crossdresses and calls himself ‘a nature’. His weird, wolf-like laugh is the only clue available, and Verma hopes to hear that again. In the course of his pursuit, he will also jump off cliffs, dance his heart out, and deliver lines like: “Naam poonchne se pehle diaper toh pehan le. Saaf kya tera baap karega?”

The baddies get such ‘dialogues’ too. One, named Vikash Bhairav, brother to Bhujang Bhairav, says to a college student: “Maine tujhe pyaar kiya aur tune mujhe dhokha diya. Ab toh tera rape karna padega.”

Literally nothing connects. It’s like everyone — from Govinda to baddies Ashutosh Rana, Makarand Deshpande and Surendra Pal — is on their own personalised tangent.

Fatigue is visible on Govinda’s face, still he dances on. One of the songs goes, ‘Sadde naal ban jaata hai loser bhi achiever, sadda toh hai lohe da liver.’ The visual effects are so tacky, they remind you of the days of Shaktimaan.

It’s really hard to understand why Govinda would want to do this film. It’s sad to have not even half a star to offer to his comeback. But there it is, folks. First day, first show, and even the ushers were yawning.