A Horror Story!!

For the complete 2½ hours, I prayed for the producer of ‘Bhootnath’. Watching the movie, I thought he must have been in dire need for some quick bucks and that resulted in Bhootnath. If a movie has two of the biggest names in modern era Bollywood, no matter what the script of the movie is or how the direction is, it is bound to gross more than what was spent on it. Ravi Chopra, the producer of the movie, seemed to have employed this theory to the best affect.

The story of the movie revolves around two main characters Bhootnath (Amitabh Bachchan) and Banku (Aman Siddiqui). The star cast is good enough to attract anyone; there is Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav, Satish Shah and Priyanshu Chatterjee. Any SRK fans in hope to witness another starry performance by him, stay away. He is on screen for not more than 30 minutes, and in that too, his acting felt half hearted. Everyone else’s performance too was below par. The only consolation being the acting of Satish Shah and Aman Siddiqui. Satish Shah is the principal of Banku’s school who’s Parsi accent lends that comedy touch that is missing from the whole movie, even when it is dubbed as comedy movie. I didn’t here any one laugh

I ain’t going to scribble the whole story of the movie here, it is just not worth it. Even though this is a kids movie, they seemed to be the least interested lot in it. First half was somewhat ok for the kids. A song where hippie youngsters were the main theme, seemed to be entertaining for the kids. And the antics of Banku made the theater a little lively with the laughing of kids, Though it was not even a percent of what I heard when the following conversation happened in the movie ‘Ice Age’

Sid : Hey, Why am I the poop checker???

Manny : Because you are small, insignificant and I will trample you if u don’t.
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Sid : mmmmmmmmmm……Why Else????

Any ways that was a different genre altogether. But I felt that with such a good theme of Bhoothnath, a lot more could have been done. And the second half was all drama and emotions. All for adults and kids were completely ignored here. The film proudly boasts that there is something for everyone, but the two sections just did not connect.

I will recommend this movie only for the acting of Amitabh, who was as elegant as ever and blended well to meet the expectations of kids; and for Aman Siddiqui