Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Plot synopsis:
Badri (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, a Bengali classical dancer. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from United States and decide to stay in their ancestral palace. This leads to Siddharth's childhood love interest Radha (Ameesha Patel), becoming jealous but she immediately recovers. Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne.
The palace where Siddharth and Avni were staying was once occupied by Raja Vibhuti Narayan, who was Siddharth's ancestor. He had fallen in love with Manjulika, a dancer hailing from Bengal. But Manjulika was in love with Shashidhar, another dancer, who resided in a house just behind the palace and often met her secretly. On the night of Durgashtami, when the king gets to know of the affair and their plan to elope, he calls them to perform a dance one last time in the court. In the end, the king beheads Shashidhar and imprisons Manjulika in her room. Then on the day of the king's marriage, Manjulika hangs herself and swore that her spirit would not leave any king who lived in that very palace. Various omens started taking place after that, presuming that the "evil eye" may have befallen on the king. The king too dies under unknown circumstances. Soon, with the aid of powerful sorcerers, both Vibhuti's and Manjulika's spirits were locked up in a room in the third floor of the palace using a sacred talisman.
Events take a twist when Avni obtains a copy of the third floor room key and opens the forbidden locked room that contains the ghost of Manjulika. Unnatural events start taking place inside the palace. Avni falls in love with the place and learns about Manjulika and her tragic story. She becomes enamored with Manjulika. Badri and Batuk Shankar (Paresh Rawal) try to ward off the evil eye with the help of a priest, Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti (Vikram Gokhale), but unfortunately the priest has gone to London and is unsure when he might return.
Siddharth starts suspecting Radha for all the strange occurrences. He thinks she has gone crazy since he was supposed to marry her, but married Avni instead. He calls his friend, psychiatrist Dr. Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar) from New York, to try to figure out what the problem is with Radha. Once Aditya reaches the palace, things become comical, as everyone thinks he is a fool, though he is very intelligent. Aditya eventually realizes that Radha is not at fault, and that someone else behind it all, and falls in love with her. One night, he encounters Manjulika and dares her to strike. The ghost angrily vows to take her revenge on the auspicious day of Durgashtami.
During the engagement of Nandini, Siddharth's cousin, and Sharad Pradhan (Vineeth), Avni spills food on Sharad and takes him away to get him cleaned. When Aditya and Siddharth search for her, they see that there is a struggle between Avni and Sharad, and quickly intervene. Siddharth thinks that Sharad was violating Avni, but Aditya tells him that Avni is the real culprit, not Radha as previously suspected. It is revealed that Avni has dissociative identity disorder, a disease that affects the person's identity, making them think they're someone else. Aditya explains that Avni is the one making all the strange things happen around the palace. He reveals that he visited Avni's hometown to gather information about her childhood and has factual evidence. He then tells the half-convinced Siddtharth to provoke Avni in order to make him realize that something is wrong. When Siddharth provokes her, Avni shows the dark personality of Manjulika before returning to her usual self, much to the horror and concern of Siddharth, who asks Aditya to save Avni.
During Durgashtami, Aditya and Siddharth see Avni consumed in Manjulika's identity, dressed as her and dancing to the tunes Manjulika had been dancing to with her love, Shashidhar, before the king murdered him. The tragic love story of the old king Vibhuti Narayan, who loved Manjulika, who in turn loved Shashidhar, is revealed. Avni imagines herself as Manjulika and Sharad as Shashidhar, dancing in the court of the king. Avni completely assumes the identity of Manjulika and tries to kill her own husband Siddharth; she sees him as the king who had killed Manjulika's lover.
To cure Avni, Aditya triggers Manjulika's personality and makes her promise to leave Avni if she gets the opportunity to kill the king and take her revenge. The priest Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti arrives and with his help, during the ritual of Durgashtami, Aditya lays out an intricate plan to trick Manjulika into thinking she is killing the king when she is actually slaying a dummy. After the "murder", Manjulika, now content, leaves Avni forever. Avni is healed and everything ends well. Aditya tells Radha, whom he has taken a liking to, that he will send his parents over if she is interested in marrying him, to which a happy Radha gives her silent consent.

Tags: romantic

Review:
it's got all the best parts of the old Indian classic movies: lavish, luxurious sets and costumes; huge crowds that pop up out of nowhere for various odd and assorted reasons; extraneous music numbers (no particular reason why, but we'll both just jump on a bicycle that popped up out of nowhere and weave madly through the countryside singing); great dance numbers featuring crowds of ppl that were nowhere to be seen before and probably won't be seen in the rest of the film.special mention: the dance scene at the court of the evil king - i can't tell you how many times i've watched that just so i could wallow in the purity of line and the sheer crispness and clarity of expression.
you make your own determination as to the truth - no matter which way you see it, it will be correct.thriller, psychological drama, romantic thriller, horror, comedy, comic tragedy, chick flick, action film - no matter what your buzz, you'll find it in Bhool Bhulaiyaa!.
But this movie was really a welcome break from his side.Akshay Kumar, as he has already proved several time, has got a great comic timing.
This was a movie tagged as a comedy, one which featured the likes of Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar plus directed by Priyadarshan.
But like Priyadarshan's previous Bollywood movie Bhagam Bhag, this one also is a thriller.
The difference is Bhagam Bhag remains a comedy, whereas Bhool Bhulaiyaa is indeed a thriller.Vidya Balan gives a stellar performance, (I won't say why cause then you have too see the movie, I wont be giving out any spoilers) and so does Akshay Kumar, despite his so late entry almost an hour into the movie.
But end of the day this movie will definitely be remembered by Vidya Balan's performance which is nothing short of mind blowing.Keeping in the theme of the movie, very few songs have been used.
Priyadarshan is definitely the best Indian comedy director in my book, but this being his first complete horror/thriller he receives kudos in my book.9/10 !!!.
Despite the fact that the movie was promoted as a comedy, the film is a physcological thriller with a few comic situations.
In comparison with his previous films, he takes a leap as a director by making a movie with a genre of its own.In my opinion, Bhool Bhulaiyaa is way better than the original movie, Manichithrathazhu.
The supporting cast are first-rate, especially Paresh Rawal, Rasika Joshi and Manoj Joshi.The songs are good; Labon Ko is easy on the ears.All in all, Bhool Bhulaiyaa is a well-executed movie, though lengthy in parts!
It's not a superb film, But yet seems a decent remake of CHANDRAMUKHI and Manichithrathazhu (1993) Luckily some bad comic scenes of Chandramukhi were not retained The film isn't original as such, in fact the entire climax is a copy of the latter film while the rest is copied from Chandramukhi As usual, Priyadarshan always brings his south films here The first half is slowly and steadily well developed but things get boring soon, the hysterical scenes at times are stupid like the entire Paresh Rawal scene where he doesn't speak, the length is a problem Akshay's character comes 45 minutes late and then there is focus more on comedy and some scenes are funny, though the supernatural angle takes a backseat and resurfaces slowly The entire suspense angle does catch you unaware and is well handled but the climax is a copy of the latter inspired film and it some how looks too much Yet in all fairness, the film is better then DHOL, BHAGAM BHAG and emerges a decent film Priyadarshan handles the film well, though some scenes are repetitive and also some comic scenes fall flat yet he handles the genre very well Music(Pritam) is of hit variety, though Hare Ram comes at the wrong time Cinematography is decentPerformances Akshay Kumar despite emerging late is superb He not only excels in comedy, but also does a brilliant job in serious scenes, shocking his haters he is one of the best part of the film Vidya is ordinary till the suspense is revealed and then she does a good job, though Jyothika and Shobana were better then her in the originals, yet she does a good job Shiny Ahuja isn't in form, he hams and goes over the top so badly that he gets to your nerves Manoj Joshi is in form, thankfully he doesn't make loud sounds and runs around like he usually does in Priyan movies, He is excellent Paresh Rawal is funny in few scenes, overall the same thing what he does mostly Rajpal Yadav has 4-5 scenes and he does OK, he too is repetitive the rest are okay.
However, it does have it's moments and all characters played their role very well.A newly married couple Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan) came back from America to live in Siddharth's inherited Palace, which is known to be haunted.
The locals blame the Avni for their misfortune, however, Siddharth thinks it Radha who has concocted these accidents to make Avni look bad and eventually be a threat to Avni's life.Siddharth thinks Radha is mentally ill and asks his friend Dr Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar) to investigate and help Radha.You will have to see the film for the rest and I'll tell you, it is very interesting.Akshay Kumar was a very mediocre actor during his early movies and has slowly blossomed into a great actor.
The Pedagogue of comedy has yet come again with a psychological thriller.One of the 2 main movies releasing in the week, this one is a clear winner.Set on the scenario of an NRI (Shiny)returning to India after some years along with Vidya Balan, they encounter some strange notions that villagers follow in their hometown.
Shiny , determined to find the true reason of the extra normal activities, he calls in his friend , akshay kumar, who deals with such paranormal activities.To add to this mystic they are presented with a caution to enter in a particular room which has remained closed for ever so long and sole cause of the activities.Priyan has by far given true justice to the script , and perfected the art of 'Thriller film making'.
It is a absolutely a different type of work gifted to us by the talented director.We all know that Priyadarshan is a master of comedy, he knows how to make people laugh anyhow.But if you are thinking this movie to be a comedy, you are mistaken.This is a good drama, thriller and 'get a clearer picture later' kind of a movie.I will not claim it to be a mystery since there is not anything confusing.All of the actors were just fantastic, but Akshay Kumar could do better.I would have appreciated more presence of the Rajpal Yadav.This movie surely deserves to be in your collection.Long Live PRIYADARSHAN !.
hardly I felt boring in few minutes but I got returns of those minutes in 2nd half which was damn damn damn interesting, gripping and psychological in last 30 mins.In short, I loved this movie so much and it is purely an entertainer and shown us great depth of human psychology and gave a hidden message to stay away from blind faith related to ghost and witches.I admire Bhool Bhulaiya.
If I am watching movies like Dhoom 2 , I really don't mind as the songs are as 'break a leg' melodious as they are in their right places ..
Actors like Paresh Rawal , Akshay Kumar , Asrani and Rajpal Yadav make sure that its not a Bhoot kind of a horror which aims at nothing but to induce horror in it.
Maybe I praised the movie a little too much for many people but hey the only 3 genres I like are horrors , thrillers and comedies ....
The screenplay is pathetically predictable.Talking of the cast, the film rests on Vidya Balan and she is a major disappointment (one should thank Priyadarshan for that).
However, Akshay's comedic scenes (which Priyadarshan probably intended to use as a gap filler) divert the film from being a thriller/horror (or whatever it tried to be) and appear completely out-of-place.
Note: Akshay and Rajpal have small roles so don't waste your time watching the film just for them..
There is something which is ever green in this movie and I just....I just love Bool Bhulaiyaa and trust me, I know it's been a long time till now when this movie was released but if you want to watch FFUNNY and HORRIBLE Bollywood picture with your family or friends....just go for it!!
while the malayalm original excels in its adept screenplay by Madhu muttam this film fails to mix the comedy and thriller tracks convincingly.
PJ!).Priyan you don't have to force-fit Paresh Rawal, Asrani and Rajpal Yadav in every movie of yours and constipate comedy out of them.Finally the weakest link:: The much applauded "to-watch-out" rising Parineeta star, Vidya Balan.
Because the original was in Malayalam and then came Aapthamithra in Kannada (AMAZING Performance by Soundharya), then Chandramukhi in Tamil (Okay movie but thanks to Rajini baba that it was worth watching it) and now is the Hindi version of it.If you haven't watched any of the other versions, I strongly advise you to have a bucket of Pop corn along with you while watching Bhool Bhulaiyaa..
Jaldi Se Bhool Jao. I had the luxury of seeing this movie with no expectations, the non-stop factory that priyadarshan runs is turning out one lacklustre comedy after the other, and the quality is only deteriorating after every shift.But this was not copied from an English movie (unlike all his earlier films which were supposedly remakes from south films but the fact that the south film was a remake was ignored), and the stellar cast that all his films contain is always good for some entertainment.The movie started out well enough with the obscure town in Rajasthan with some good cinematography (good because with a canvas like rural India/Rajasthan its impossible not to have good visuals).The regular cast returns with a few new faces namely Namely Vidya Balan, Shiny Ahuja and Amisha Patel.
Shiny Ahuja gave a convincing performance, while Amisha Patel could well have been a bystander, VIDYA BALAN LOOKED HIDEOUS, DRESSED BADLY AND TOWARDS THE SCENES AT THE END CROSSED OVER THE LINE IN THE DISGUSTING CATEGORY, the acting talent may be there but its discomforting to see a 35-40 looking actress doing the role she does.The movie gives us the regular Priyadarshan/Neeraj Vohra comic fare with a twist, after Akshay Kumar enters there's a bit of weird humour not unlike the one seen in sleepy hollow but half the flair.Yet the first half is enjoyable maybe even good, as you wait in anticipation for the climatic second one.The regulars do what they do, ie give stellar performances with varied forms of humour and drama ranging from the downright corny to the brilliant.
When i cried out in frustration (and much to the annoyance of my parents "Woh Jo Bhi ho bhaad me Gaya Pichar Khatam Karo Bh!@@(*d" the whole theater mirrored their agreement with a bout of laughter that far exceeded any in the movie.There are some really nice scenes specially in the earlier half like Akshays entry, Paresh Rawal pleading with the pseudo ghost, etc etc.But these scenes were supposed to be the filler for what was supposed to be a climatic, mysterious and maybe even funny second half, but ended up being the best part off this otherwise pathetic movie.Some social issues were touched but these were lost in confusing end.Even though Priyadarshans movies are degrading with time, this is the first time that a pathetic last half hour is making me tell people to avoid this movie unless they are hardcore fans.Watch at your own risk.-s pathetic last half hour, Vidya Balan, confusing and deteriorating second half, bad songs (the title song isn't being shown in many theatres).+/-s mystery or comedy ???probably fails at both.Have we had too much of Akshay in the same roles???.+s Stellar regular cast, some good scenes, good technically, lovely visuals.total 3.5/10 (and not factoring in my low/no expectations because any higher rating may be misleading, i cannot emphasize how bad the last half hour is, to add to that now we have people complaining about the Buddha statue so Adlabs isn't showing the title track.).
Vidya Balan did justice to her role & Akshay Kumar was also excellent.
Overall, I love the movie very much & it's a good thriller.
It was well directed by priyadarshan who generally makes comedy movies more..this movie really gave good role to Akshay and vidya..
Performances- Akshay kumar and vidya balan are excellent.
all songs are good.You should watch this movie for its story, representation, music and performances of akshay kumar, vidya balan.
i believe this is one of the best movies to have been made this yeareverybody is saying about bad comedy and marketing as a thrillerbut i feel that comedy was not only a strong point but one of the main reasons for the movie being goodhad it been fully horror and no comedy, the movie wouldn't have been successful due to many reasons1)Priyadarshan(the word says it all) 2)I wouldn't have been able to see the movie had it not been comic,but now even my 8 year old brother has seen it twice just because there is comedy to make you relaxed even in the most on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments 3)the concept of comedy plus horror is very novel and makes for a good watch for people like me who have never seen horror movies in their entire lifeThe best things about the movie was the climax, the dance, the bengali song, the vidya balan, and the akshay kumari just love his auto scenedo go and watch it.
The story starts with the revelation of the legend of the Haveli which seems to be haunted by the soul of a dancer who had committed suicide many years ago after her lover, a court dancer is murdered by the then king who was in love with this beautiful dancer.Paresh Rawal, Asrani, Akshay Kumar are the culprits of the movie who almost manage to turn this into a comedy but all praises to all of them as they have given their best works.
Vidya Balan does a decent role in the movie and does more than justice to her character towards the end of the movie.
Although a remake of a south Indian movie the performance is very original.I give it 6.5 out of 10.
if i was to rate those 2 movies ,i would give "Bhool Bhulaiyaa"-1.5/5 and "Manichithrathazhu" - 4.2/5...its mainly because of acting criteria, Vidya balan's acting is below "awful" compared with national award winning actress Shobana.Akshay kumar was also accompanying her .
Mohanlal-4/5 and Akshay kumar - 0.5/5.....many bollywood fans may not like this comment...because they haven't seen "manichithrathazu"....i know the truth about awfulness of its remake because i have watched both the movies....watch "manichitrathazu" and u will know the huge differences.
What a performance by Vidya balan and Akshay Kumar.
Director Priyadarshan keeps the movie pacy and intriguing from the start.It's a story of a avni(vidya balan)girl having multiple identity disorder,brought up in India with her grandmother listening to her fairy tales and believing that good wins over bad always,when forcefully his father takes her away with him to America she grows up and forgets but the disorder remains with her.Aftr a few years after getting married,she moves with his husband Sidhhart to a palace in India and there she hears the story of a dancer manjulika and her love interest shashidhar and brutality of king vimurtinarayan and eventually connects to her story and the disorder recalls again.How Akshay(aditya) will cure her forms the crux of the story.
Poor Shiny is sleep walking, Rajpal Yadav has never been more pathetic - and the guy can usually act so well - here completely wasted, Paresh should seriously consider retiring, Vidya is normal in the normal and completely stupid in the abnormal, Akki has to dress up as a weirdo to cue us into his comic role, and then in dress pants and shirt to tell us he is now a respected psychiatrist.
thriller,comedy,suspense,lil bit of drama(after the interval)all in all a great masala movie.
better than all the movies released by Priyadarshan after HUNGAMA.plot and summery were too good,there were some spoilers but the story fills there place.the only thing bugged me was the song"Hare Krishna Hare Raam,"comes with the end credits.A MUST WATCH MVOIE.10 OUT OF 10 STARS.
Omg i loved this movie what i expected which was a comedy turned out to be a thrilling amazing storyline with a fantastic script and wonderful cast that pull the movie off.
The lead character (Akshay Kumar) enters 45 mins into the movie and takes it to a completely different level.
Bhool Bhulaiya has just the right ingredients of a successful movie - adequate amount of comedy, suspense and thrill to keep you at the edge of your seats throughout.
Music is never really great in Priyadarshan movies but Bhool Bhulaiyaa is an exception.
Akshay Kumar is surprisingly good in emotional scenes and as always brilliant with his comic timing.Shiny Ahuja is good.
Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani are great in providing comic relief.my opinion Overall, Bhool Bhulaiyaa is an excellent movie.
Now let us proceed to the review:The good:-* Vidya's possessed act is quite convincing as her hair is all haywire and she looks as if she is a real ghost.* Akshay, even though is not is in the best form, is still likable as always.* The story with its twists and turns keeps you hooked to your place* The songs of the films, not surprisingly, by Pritam is great and catchy.
I especially liked the Bengali song.*The dance sequence in the end was fabulously choreographed.The bad:-*Shiney Ahuja, even though is a good actor, has done a terrible performance in this film as he goes hammy.*Akshay has very less role as he comes only before the interval*For a psychological thriller, it isn't exactly awe-inspiring.Overall, its a likable film.