Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Name: Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Genre: Comedy/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Priyadarshan (Director)

Synopsis: Badri is head of a Brahmin family. Their ancestral palace is believed to be hounded by a ghost named Manjulika, a Bengali classical dancer. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan) who is Siddharth’s wife and also the son of Badri’s elder brother came from America to live there for some time as to complete company’s project over there. Badri insisted Siddharth to live with them but Siddharth said that they had already laid their luggage in that ancestral palace. Siddharth was later crowned as the king of the throne of that place as he was the rightful owner. After some days, Avni sees a big lock on a room in the palace. She asked why the room is locked but everyone told her to stay away from this room as it contains ghost of Manjulika. Avni being curious opened the lock of that room. Soon some unnatural events begin to take place in that palace. Avni came to know about the story of Manjulika and begins to sympathize with her. Badri and Batuk approach a high renowned priest of the village named Yagyaprakash Bharti but came to know that he has gone to London for some work and his followers are not sure when will he return. Siddharth starts suspecting Radha for causing such strange and unnatural events and asks Badri that is Radha is suffering from some psychological disease. He calls his friend Dr. Aditya Srivastva (Akshay Kumar) who is a psychiatrist, so that he can check whether Radha is normal or not.

In the beginning when Aditya reached Siddharth’s home, everyone was thinking him a fool but in reality he is one of renowned psychiatrist. Aditya soon realizes that Radha is perfectly normal and the reason for the strange events happening in the palace is someone else. One night, he hears some sounds coming from a room whose lock was previously opened by Avni and checked the room. He encounters Manjulika’s voice through the closed door. The voice of Manjulika told him that she will going to take her revenge on Durgaashtami, a very sacred day in Hindu mythology. Aditya locks Radha in a room saying that she is the reason for all the strange occurrences in the palace. On the engagement day of Nandini who is Siddharth’s cousin and Sharad Pradhan, everyone was enjoying and partying. Suddenly Aditya asks Siddharth to find Avni and soon, saw a struggle was going on between Avni and Sharad. Siddharth thinks that Sharad was trying to force Avni with her and starts beating him. Later on, Aditya reveals Siddharth that it is Avni who’s suffering from a disease is called Dissociative Identity Disorder, where she believes herself as some other person and she is the one responsible to for strange happening in the palace. He reveals that when he realizes that Avni was suffering from DID disease, he went to her hometown to gather information about her and has told Siddharth the facts about her. He asks Siddharth to stop Avni from going out and he himself will come to know that something is wrong with her. As told by Aditya, Siddharth stops Avni to go outside today and hearing that Avni being possessed as Manjulika warns Siddharth. She this side of Avni, Siddharth got worried and asks Aditya to save her at all costs. He also told Siddharth about Manjulika past. As Avni came to know about the story she deeply influenced with her and has sympathy for her and slowly she becomes possessed by her.

On the day of Durgashtami, Avni was fully possessed by Manjulika dances with Sharad as for love Shashidhar in the past. She tries to kill Siddharth as she (Manjulika possessed) thinks that he is the Vibhuti Narayan in the past who killed her lover. To cure Avni with help of Priest Yagyaprakash Bharti, Aditya plans to have a ritual in which he will let Avni (Manjulika possessed) had her revenge of Siddharth (whe she thinks is Vibhuti Narayan) and after killing him Manjulika should let Avni free. At the moment she tries to stick the killing blow on Siddharth, Aditya changes it with a dummy. Seeing Siddharth killed in possessed state Avni falls down. Later, Avni is healed and cured. All ends well and everyone was happy. Aditya asks Radha that he will like to marry her. He asks Badri that he has asked some question to some and if the answer is yes, just let him know.

Review: One of the very good movies made by Priyadarshan. Story of the movie was very unique and creative although it is more or less same as Chandramukhi movie of the southern legend actor Rajnikant. Akshay Kumar performed the role with full charisma and conviction. Vidya Balan’s performance in the movie was also brilliant and so does the rest of the cast’s performance. Music of the movie is very good as well as the songs of the movie. Movie contains full of thrills and comedy given by Akshay Kumar gives an edge to that. It holds its audience together all the time and the movie goes on at a good pace. It’s a typical psychological thriller with some good comedy in it and it’s a must watch.

Stars given: 3.5 out 5.