BHOOL BHULAIYAA
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By Vishal Verma
Rating:- * *
What is it?
Don’t go by the promos, the end result will disturb you. There’s no way I can find any way out and place this thriller, comedy, suspense, mystery what not… in any genre. Its so zzzzzzzzng.
There’s buffoonery in the name of comedy, a clock greater than kutumbminar falls, a female voice croons, groans, frowns, cats enter a tokri, and Bhatushakar (what a name!) gets scared!!, cause there’s a chokri’s aatma locked in the 3rd floor of a haveli which is in a city yet to be figured in the world map. This mysterious city is supposed to be on the cove of Ganges but the inhabitants wear cabbages on their heads like in Jodhpur. Phur Phur imaginations gone haywire over here, the Royal Family wears chotis and dhotis!!.
Petri fried? Yup! In that ‘way’.
Hare Ram Hare Ram Hare Krishna Hare Ram………. No, I am not singing this peppy number by Pritam which is any way not there in the film. I am finding my way out.
Maybe I am over reacting, but my heart burns when I see such a waste of talents. Cannot comment on the originals but this is really a striking example of unexplained loose narration. Hardly anything happens in the long first half barring those buffoonery, gag, gimmicks used to evoke laughter and tension which unfortunately fall flat.
Akshay enters before 15 minutes of the interval and then we start wondering why he has come and what is he doing. There’s is mystery all around, the characters, the plot, the locations etc.
Surprisingly the movie starts with a mystery and ends with the same mystery unsolved.
If Priyadarshan means this is the maze of maze, The ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ then be it.
‘Anyway’ the movie has some redemption; Vidya Balan is excellent especially during the last reels. Shiney Ahuja is competent.
But alas! Akshay is in a forgettable role. But he is such a bigger star now that a single debacle or a failure will have any effect on his career.Whats it all about?
Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and his newly wed wife Avni (Vidya Balan) are welcomed when they come home. But what the family resists is Siddharth's insistence on staying in his royal ancestral mansion during his stay. His uncle Badrinarayan Chaturvedi (Manoj Joshi) particularly has no qualms about voicing his displeasure. For it was that very mansion that held in its realm, a deadly secret that had repeatedly destroyed the family for generations.
The scientifically inclined Siddharth pays no heed and starts staying at the palatial mansion with Avni who is equally modern in her thinking... But soon enough the couple is forced to rethink their decision... Unforeseen happenings, mysterious elements, horrific indications and life threatening incidents swarm their path.
Siddharth instinctively finds the solution in his dynamic Doctor friend Aditya (Akshay Kumar). When Dr. Aditya finds his way into the mansion. He just had to find the cause of all the upheaval before the effects caused more harm than could be imagined. And what we get is a case of split personality, being cured by a psychiatrist and a tantrik together if that was not enough some hypnotism is also added by the end.
The million dollar question is that, while the patient gets cured but what about the mystery surrounding the haunted Haveli for ages?
That goes unexplained and the writer and the director leave it for the viewers to decide on their own.What to look out for?
The hit number is not there in the film but Vidya finds her way out in this messing maze of all sorts and delivers an excellent performance. Shiney also shines and gives a fine performance.
What Not?
Unfortunately it’s a long list and ‘mysteriously’ I skip this section.