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Bhoothnath (2008) Movie Rating and Review :
Rating :
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 5.5/10
Screenplay – 4/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
From Casper to Baghban
Bollywood film-makers should seriously take a crash course in how to end a film from their West-side counterparts. They have all become Abhimanyus, knowing how to crack the Chakravyuha but not how to emerge triumphant.
Bhootnath is yet another film which starts on a promising note and then goes on to undo all the good work in the last half hour. It’s essentially a children’s film which is hurled unnecessarily into family movie terrain. It’s as if three-quarters through the film, the BR Chopra banner felt like fluttering and suddenly Casper became Baghban!
Vivek Sharma’s directorial debut starts off confidently. Shah Rukh Khan, in a much extended special appearance, plays an engineer on a cruise liner. He has to stay at sea but his wife Anjali (Juhi) and son Banku (Aman) stay at a rented house in Goa called Nath Villa.
The house is haunted by the ghost of Kailash Nath (Bachchan), who doesn’t like any of his tenants and makes sure he literally blows them away. But Banku makes him an offer he can’t refuse. The char-foot-do-inch boy compares the chhay-foot-do-inch spook to his dead grandfather and lovingly calls him Bhootnath.
Before you can say Boo, the Babban Singh-like haggard ghost becomes a Buddhadev Gupta-like sophisticated buddha wearing the entire range of Reid & Taylor suits. Soon, Bhootnath is hip-hopping on Goa beaches wearing trendy sweatshirts and almost pompoming with the cheerleaders.
However corny all this may sound, trust us, it was all enjoyable till this point. The chemistry between the kid and the Big B is very good, full of charming playful banter and even a well-written emotional attachment. The special effects is top notch and Satish Shah, the school principal, and Rajpal Yadav, the neighbourhood drunkard, excel in funny set-pieces.
But sadly that’s where the party ends. It’s all downhill from there, with Bhootnath’s super-weepy backstory of how his son (Priyanshu) left him and took his grandson away from him. If that wasn’t enough, now everyone has to do a shraddh puja to give mukti to his atript atma. Boy, do they know how to spoil it all.
The music (Vishal-Shekhar) is not helpful either, except for Banku bhaiyya which has quite a rhythm going for it. Strangely, even the background score in the second half sounds straight out of Baghban.
Bachchan is good, and very funny, as the scary ghost completely caught on the wrong foot by the smart kid. But all too soon he starts playing himself, inspired perhaps by those colour-co-ordinated suitings and shirtings. Aman, though, is good throughout. Darsheel Safary has set the benchmark quite high for child actors but Aman is really refreshing, playing his age and not aware of the camera.
The rest have little to do but Juhi plays the modern mom quite well. Do Shah Rukh and Amitabh share a frame? Well technically they do, even the eyes meet for a nano-second, but that’s about it. They are seen joking around in the closing credits behind-the-scenes montage. You may just want to hang around for that rare Kodak moment. If all the rona-dhona hasn’t got to you by then, that is.
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 5.5/10
Screenplay – 4/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
From Casper to Baghban
Bollywood film-makers should seriously take a crash course in how to end a film from their West-side counterparts. They have all become Abhimanyus, knowing how to crack the Chakravyuha but not how to emerge triumphant.
Bhootnath is yet another film which starts on a promising note and then goes on to undo all the good work in the last half hour. It’s essentially a children’s film which is hurled unnecessarily into family movie terrain. It’s as if three-quarters through the film, the BR Chopra banner felt like fluttering and suddenly Casper became Baghban!
Vivek Sharma’s directorial debut starts off confidently. Shah Rukh Khan, in a much extended special appearance, plays an engineer on a cruise liner. He has to stay at sea but his wife Anjali (Juhi) and son Banku (Aman) stay at a rented house in Goa called Nath Villa.
The house is haunted by the ghost of Kailash Nath (Bachchan), who doesn’t like any of his tenants and makes sure he literally blows them away. But Banku makes him an offer he can’t refuse. The char-foot-do-inch boy compares the chhay-foot-do-inch spook to his dead grandfather and lovingly calls him Bhootnath.
Before you can say Boo, the Babban Singh-like haggard ghost becomes a Buddhadev Gupta-like sophisticated buddha wearing the entire range of Reid & Taylor suits. Soon, Bhootnath is hip-hopping on Goa beaches wearing trendy sweatshirts and almost pompoming with the cheerleaders.
However corny all this may sound, trust us, it was all enjoyable till this point. The chemistry between the kid and the Big B is very good, full of charming playful banter and even a well-written emotional attachment. The special effects is top notch and Satish Shah, the school principal, and Rajpal Yadav, the neighbourhood drunkard, excel in funny set-pieces.
But sadly that’s where the party ends. It’s all downhill from there, with Bhootnath’s super-weepy backstory of how his son (Priyanshu) left him and took his grandson away from him. If that wasn’t enough, now everyone has to do a shraddh puja to give mukti to his atript atma. Boy, do they know how to spoil it all.
The music (Vishal-Shekhar) is not helpful either, except for Banku bhaiyya which has quite a rhythm going for it. Strangely, even the background score in the second half sounds straight out of Baghban.
Bachchan is good, and very funny, as the scary ghost completely caught on the wrong foot by the smart kid. But all too soon he starts playing himself, inspired perhaps by those colour-co-ordinated suitings and shirtings. Aman, though, is good throughout. Darsheel Safary has set the benchmark quite high for child actors but Aman is really refreshing, playing his age and not aware of the camera.
The rest have little to do but Juhi plays the modern mom quite well. Do Shah Rukh and Amitabh share a frame? Well technically they do, even the eyes meet for a nano-second, but that’s about it. They are seen joking around in the closing credits behind-the-scenes montage. You may just want to hang around for that rare Kodak moment. If all the rona-dhona hasn’t got to you by then, that is.
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