May 13 2008
Review of Movie Bhoothnath
Debut direction for Vivek Sharma, making a movie based on exceptional story of bonding between a child and a Ghost and supported by a starCast -Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla, the established icons of Indian Cinema.
Overall the movie is very good, a mixture of drama, comedy and emotions; the performance of the star cast is outstanding, the music by Vishal –Shekar is okay but not up to the expectations of the audience, dialogues, cinematography and art direction has been extremely good .
The movie basically rotates around two characters, Aman Siddique – (Banku) and Amitabh Bachchan-(Kailash Nath), the story is about Banku with his family (Juhi Chawla and Shahrukh Khan) shift to Goa and move to stay at Nath-Villa which is haunted by Kailash Nath after his death. The first half of movie is just fun, targeted mainly on kids, the second half has more of emotions and message for everyone, parents too will like the movie. In the movie the bhoot is named as Bhoothnath by Banku, the bhooth tries all his tricks to scare Banku but he fails to do so and gradually there build up an attachment between the two. The later part of the movie there is a twist when Kailash Nath’s son returns from US with an intension to sell his mansion. I would not reveal it, recommend a watch this weekend at your nearest cinema.
Amitabh Bachchan’s performance in the movie is really brilliant; the second half of the movie is more dragging, the climax of the movie is shot extremely well. Aman Siddque child artist has given equally commendable performance and surely deserves a nomination for an award under the child artist category.
Though the movie is basically targeted for kids (summer holidays), has lots for everyone and is a family entertainer, as far as direction is concerned Vivek Sharma has handled the film very well and has done justice to his debut movie.
