Bhoot part one: The haunted ship
*ing: Vicky Kaushal, Bhumi Pednekar, Ashutosh Rana
Rated: 3/10
There are a few genres on which Bollywood should never attempt to make movies. First, of course is comedy. Vir Das has rightly said: Indians have not learnt the art of laughing at themselves. Second, and Bhoot: The Haunted Ship, falls under this category is horror. There was a time when Bollywood had some incredible horror movies to its name like Mahal and Bees Saal Baad. Then came the era of Ramsay Brothers. While these movies had the bhoot, it lacked the scare factor. Not the spine-chilling expression of teenage Damien in Omen.
One has to understand that everything that goes bump at night and strange clanking noise doesn’t constitute horror. That is what ails this latest ghost movie. Bhanu Pratap Singh may have used a ghost ship to tell his story that already has a history of haunting and the entire crew mysteriously committing suicide, the creepy looking ghost or the victim it has possessed and kept with it for more than 10 years is more on the lines that the bhoot needs psychiatric treatment rather then be exorcised.
While Vicky Kaushal may be the only saving grace of this sinking ship, the fact remains why he chose to do this film in the first place given that the storyline and the script of this film is not a patch on the kind of movies Kaushal has picked up in the recent past like Uri and Manmarziyaan. Sad that Ashutosh Rana who has been in the industry for more than two decades would say yes to this project.
There are several lose ends at the climax. If the director was looking at a Bahubali: The Beginning kind of end, he failed miserably.
Only see this one if you are a horror film fan.