Jeevan and Yojana want a bit of beema in their lives. The debt-ridden couple think they have come up with the perfect ploy to claim a hefty insurance pay-out.Jeevan (Arshad Warsi) will fake his death, having miraculously found a spitting image in Bheema (Warsi again). Yojana (Sanjeeda Shaikh) will play the weeping widow for a respectable period and then collect the money.How can’t it go wrong? Yojana is in too much of a hurry, summoning the insurance agent barely hours after the cremation. The gangsters Vinayak (Vijay Raaz) and Manu (Brijendra Kala) turn up at the couple’s home, lingering there for much of the duration of Jeevan Ya Bheema Con?Threats are made; guns are waved; farts are discharged. The film’s sound designer hopefully had fun with the audio effects, because nobody else does.It goes on in this fashion, coming alive when Vinayak wonders whether the so-not-dead man flailing before him is Jeevan or Bheema. Then the film goes back into sleep mode.Based on a story by Vivek Verma, Jeevan Ya Bheema Con? (previously titled Jeevan Bheema Yojana) has a scattering of funny moments and an abundance of strained humour. Commenting on the business of lookalikes and talk of a missing diamond stash, a character says, what is this, an Abbas-Mustan movie?That might have actually been entertaining. Director Abhishek Dogra can’t get an overstretched premise that is tailor-made for a stage adaptation to work. A few solid performances, barring Sonia Chopra as the overly oomphy Yashika, keep the 119-minute movie from being a washout.Vijay Raaz, having done this kind of thing before, is efficient as the allegedly ruthless but also time-wasting Vinayak. Brijendra Kala hopefully earned a fat paycheque for playing a fart factory.Sanjeeda Shaikh is crippled by Yojana’s serially unintelligent behaviour. Despite being one half of a crooked plan, Yojana is criminally underserved by the film.Arshad Warsi performs as though he is in an altogether different movie, the one that was narrated to him and grabbed his attention. This engaging actor plays the hapless Jeevan and the alcoholic Bheema with enthusiasm that’s almost infectious.