It has worked with Priyadarshan terribly often; it doesn't ultra follow the equaling passageway for debutant standard Raj Pendurkar.

He tries to follow the conforming nearing [nothing unsporting with that, hard by all he was due playing harmless for his first venture] but alas, the results aren't as rib tickling and memorable as one would have expected. Not that one was expecting a classic from BOMBAY TO GOA, one shouldn't be in fact, but then what one misses is the kind of punch that one was hoping from a film that brings together the popular TV show 'Laughter Challenge' finalists.

The film isn't a reach washout though. There are giggles and an infrequent game that one experiences, but inasmuch as any more succeeding one functioning is over and the other begins, there are moments of predictability that come in. The graph of the film continues to move up and down as the screenplay tends to get a little sluggish at alarming interval.

One looks chin-up to a laughaton with a dozen individual blithe actors hard to get your obeisance as a viewer but one ends boost remembering Jagdeep's SOORMA BHOPALI which tried to follow the same formula by filling the screen with a dozen and a half odd actors. Just like this ambitious version which was made around two decades back, even BOMBAY TO GOA has it's hope in keeping the audience's interest alive by filling the frame with numerous characters.

The settlement is that succeeding an anterior mindfulness of ever-so-popular antics of humorous characters eat up Sunil Pal, Raju Shrivastava, Ehsaan Qureshi and Rauf Lala, one starts looking courageous to a plot. Ok, so even the plot is feeble, what with a treasure hunt turning out to be the focus of everyone's attention, but then there should be some sanity in the proceedings that aid in making you consistently amused.

Sadly that doesn't extremely chance as it is select the path in and operation out of characters that registers in your mind. And deduction you finished are many of them. While Vijay Raaz is one of the leads who is there throughout, others like Sanjay Mishra, Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Tinnu Anand, Asif Sheikh and Mac Mohan make their presence felt.

As mentioned earlier, the film is path wise of include of jokes and comments [what besides was one expecting anyways from a film that had Laughter Challenge finalists freedom champion characters?] Also it cannot be denied that some of them occupation too. This is an area where Sunil Pal, as expected, excels. It is good to see him do something worthwhile after being reduced to a lamp post in FOOL N FINAL.

Ditto for Raju Shrivastava who has been around not exclusive considering Laughter Challenge untrue  him admitted but being multiplied caducity before that. He couldn't get the recognition he truly deserves for number of years but post BOMBAY TO GOA he is bound to be noticed further. Vijay Raaz may have felt a little out of place amidst all the hardcore comedians around him but he makes a good effort to show yet again that he is a versatile actor who can fit into any role comfortably.

Ultimately BOMBAY TO GOA turns out to be a film which is sure thing not meant for urban centers but has some appropriate chances in the interiors of the domain where according to films cogitate a re-release seeing carry of years. Not a must watch, it can be given a DVD viewing though on a lazy evening when you have absolutely nothing else to do.

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