Movie review of Bhoot starring Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan, Victor Banerjee, Seema Biswas, Tanuja, Amar Talwar, Barkha Madan, Sabir Masani, Lalit Marathe and Akshit

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Credits
Producer/s:	Nitin Manmohan
Director:	Ram Gopal Varma
Cast:	Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan, Victor Banerjee, Seema Biswas, Tanuja, Amar Talwar, Barkha Madan, Sabir Masani, Lalit Marathe and Akshit
Music:	Salim - Sulaiman, Anand Raaj Anand, Amar Mohile, Bapi - Tutul
Lyrics:	Lalit Marathe, Praveen Bhardwaj, Jaideep Saini, Sandeep Nath, Mahathi Prakash

How much horrific moments you can bear in a single movie? Ram Gopal Varma’s latest cinematic adventure Bhoot, as per expectation from it, is a film with class one horrors. And you must see it if you love to be scared.

Let’s not talk too much about the story. For, revealing its narrative in details will subside the interest you may have in you to see it in a cinema. Let’s discuss it in short. In a Mumbai skyscraper, a flat on the top floor was lying vacant since some time, as a woman called Manjeet (Barkha Madan) had died after she fell off from the balcony. A professional and non-superstitious Vishal (Ajay Devgan) wholeheartedly rents it out for himself to live in there with wife Swati (Urmila Matondkar). But little did he know and hardly did he believe that something called ghost is more than an illusion. Until, off course, his family is actually entrapped in…

Bhoot is too good to accept as a Hindi film. Of the four locations it has, three are seen just randomly. And you won’t wish to have all those scenic foreign locations Hindi film use to work as crowd pullers. The narrative is so simple yet striking that after first five minutes or so; you will not be able to put your mind to work in something else than the movie. And it is the style that makes it so gripping.

The pace is comparatively slow and happenings are scattered. Still, this around two hour movie keeps on moving so well that, ‘be scared and enjoy’ will be the mantra the viewer will live. Writers Sameer Sharma and Lalit Marathe have written small and simple dialogues. No character is seen speaking aimlessly and it is like a fresh experience of its kind. Their screenplay too is quite imaginative. The other asset is sound designed by Dwarak Warrier. His work is one of the main forces behind all spine-chilling moments that keep on hitting till the end. From irritating doorbell to falling utensil and from lift’s annoying noise to sound of heavy rain, he has used lots of things creatively to let you miss your heartbeats.

Once Vishal and Swati get settled in their new house, things start moving and from a watchman (Sabir Masani) to inspector Liyaqat Qareshi (Nana Patekar) to Dr. Rajan (Victor Banerjee) and Sarita (Rekha) and Mrs. Khosla (Tanuja), all characters are introduced just when they are actually required. Imagine stars are cut to the size of the film’s demand and you can say this never happens in Bollywood. Bhoot breaks this rule overwhelmingly and with authority. That’s why; Sanjay (Fardeen Khan) is introduced in the climax moments, though his reference comes much earlier.

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