Oooooaaaaa... Vvvvvaaauuuuuu.... Ggggggggghh. Review on Bhoot

Well the title of this review happens to be lifted from few lines of dialogue of Urmila in the movie!!!! While others watched in horror at how the poor Urmi's body was taken over by this female bhoot (usually referred to as bhootni), I could only wonder at how and why I was bearing these weird inane sounds blaring from the Dolby speakers...

Now for those of you, who think I've spoiled the suspense, well I'd only say, I've spared you from an ordeal... Ah well, so the movie wasn't all that bad... It's just me, who is panning it more than required... But it is because, I went to the theatre expecting an intelligent thriller/horror flick... Ram Gopal Varma is definitely one of the most accomplished directors of our country and all through the making I was made to believe that this is a different horror flick, which uses the human mind as a tool to scare audiences... Now that looked hatke cinema and coming from RGV, my expectations were sky high...

Well well, at the most I could term Bhoot as a technically polished version of Aahat (Sony) and Mano ya na mano (Zee TV), which TV viewers would know, were TV adaptations of Ramsay flicks... so Bhoot turns out an extension of that genre, when I thought this mould was what Bhoot was out to break...

For those of us, who went to get horrified - by weird/unusual camera angles and sounds of doors slamming replete with the rain and sudden appearances of tortured souls visible in the mirror and then gone, next to the sofa and gone again, on the staircase and gone yet again, yes - they got more than their share of scare... But for people - like me, who entered the theatre hoping the Bhoot would be the movie to break cliches and present a psychic adventure rather than the creepy atma-tantrik antics, well - they came out disappointed...

So the haunted haveli makes way for the posh apartment (a haunted one again, though) in a high rise building... and the aghori baba makes way for the glamourous Rekha ji, donning the new-age avtaar of an exorcist... Rest everything remains the usual fare churned out as chills for a horror movie...

The high point of the film, could well be the exciting starcast... Each of the actors, delivers a proficient performance, though Fardeen in his 2-dialogue role leaves much to be desired, still... LOL... There ARE some scary moments but if you have already been thwarted (by your high hopes), then am sure even those would seem comic and irksome... Another plus for Bhoot should be its length... Thankfully, RGV tell his story without dragging it much... He could have stretched the movie to the standard Bollywood length, but that would surely have become torture for the audience...

All in all, I guess the hype killed the movie for me... I don't hunt for horror flicks but the cast ensemble would have been sufficient for me to like the film, but expectations soared high and so Bhoot fell thud in my eyes... Nothing personal RGV, but that's what I term - panning a movie just for the heck of it!!! You sure will get your share of scare watching Bhoot! Watchable at least once!!