With a name like Chhodon Naa Yaar, there is not much that you can expect from a film. Nor can you write much about a movie which refers to a film-making course as “mass comm giri” and TV journalists as “raaste pe ghoomne waale mike leke madaari.” But believe us, this is the trailer of torture — the full film is far worse.

Director Dilip Sood must have vaguely heard of a film called The Blair Witch Project, a quasi-documentary on the horrific expedition of a group of students engaged in a film-making course who disappeared mysteriously, never to surface again.

So in Chhodon Naa Yaar, we have college student Jimmy Sheirgill and his two friends — Kabir Sadanand who tries to make us believe that he should have bagged Aamir’s role in Rang De Basanti and Farid Amiri who makes even Himesh Reshammiya look like a seasoned actor — making a trip to the mysterious Haripeeth Mandir to film their annual college project.

What follows is stuff that would make an 80s Ramsay flick seem classy in comparison. Chhodon Naa Yaar leaves you with a bagful of unanswered questions (“what am I doing here”? would top the list) and a splitting headache (Statutory Warning: Go and Chhodon...back-to-back is injurious to your sanity).

Jimmy Sheirgill has a dazed expression throughout the film. And with good reason. One can only mourn the loss of a talented actor who started off with Maachis, went on to Yahaan and now has to be seen in films like Chhodon Naa Yaar. And Kim Sharma thankfully has a total screen time of about five minutes.

Mindless songs popping up every now add to audience misery. Anand Raaj Anand’s score is nothing to write home about, except for the Daler Mehndi Talwar re track. And why on earth is a spooky score played every time there is a romantic scene involving Jimmy and Kim?

The one saving grace is that Chhodon Naa Yaar — like Go — is less than two hours in length. Anything beyond that would have been a killer.