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Bhoothnath

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
13K
YOUR RATING
Bhoothnath (2008)
ComedyDramaFamilyFantasyHorror

Moving into a new house, a family witnesses an unfriendly ghost who wants to drive them away from the house. However, he befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.Moving into a new house, a family witnesses an unfriendly ghost who wants to drive them away from the house. However, he befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.Moving into a new house, a family witnesses an unfriendly ghost who wants to drive them away from the house. However, he befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.

  • Director
    • Vivek Sharma
  • Writers
    • Sudhanshu Dube
    • Vivek Sharma
  • Stars
    • Amitabh Bachchan
    • Juhi Chawla
    • Satish Shah
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    13K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Vivek Sharma
    • Writers
      • Sudhanshu Dube
      • Vivek Sharma
    • Stars
      • Amitabh Bachchan
      • Juhi Chawla
      • Satish Shah
    • 25User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    • Kailash 'Bhoothnath' Nath
    Juhi Chawla
    Juhi Chawla
    • Anjali
    Satish Shah
    Satish Shah
    • Principal J.J. Irani
    Rajpal Naurang Yadav
    Rajpal Naurang Yadav
    • Anthony
    • (as Rajpal Yadav)
    Priyanshu Chatterjee
    Priyanshu Chatterjee
    • Vijay Nath
    • (as Priyanshu Chatterji)
    Aman Siddiqui
    • Aman
    Shah Rukh Khan
    Shah Rukh Khan
    • Aditya Sharma
    Neena Kulkarni
    Neena Kulkarni
    • Nirmala
    Delnaaz Irani
    Delnaaz Irani
      Aashish Chaudhary
      Aashish Chaudhary
      • Rohan
      Nauheed Cyrusi
      Nauheed Cyrusi
      • Tina
      Shaana Levy
      Shaana Levy
      • Shaana
      • (as Shaana Diya)
      Somesh Agarwal
      Somesh Agarwal
      • Postman
      Tejas Are
        Sunil Beniwal
        • Kishan
        Samir Chandra
        • Teacher
        Amay Kadakia
        • Amit
        Aamir Samar Khan
        • Director
          • Vivek Sharma
        • Writers
          • Sudhanshu Dube
          • Vivek Sharma
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        User reviews25

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        10Pratik112

        A Good Comedy With Family Drama

        I was totally surprised by this movie even though I had watched some of the promos. In a way, this is not a typical BR Chopra film and yet in a way it is - a simple film portraying a simple story.

        Anjali Sharma, with her husband, Aditya, who works on cruise liner and their son, move to Goa and when they inform several taxi drivers as to where they want to go, all except one, refuse to take them. Enroute to the house, the driver informs them that the house is haunted and soon Aditya has to go to work, leaving Anjali to set up everything and including sending their son to a nearby school. One night, upon waking up, she sees her son looking for an ice cream bowl that he dropped only moments back. He even tells her that he has seen a ghost. But soon the ghost and the little boy become friends.

        The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Satish Shah, Rajpal Yadav, Lalit Parasher and both Priyanshu and Shah Rukh Khan make a friendly appearance. This is produced by Ravi Chopra and is directed by Vivek Sharma.

        This movie, to an extent, has the echoes of "Baghban" where family drama is concerned and is a good comedy where the friendship between the boy and the ghost, as well as Rajpal Yadav and Satish Shah are concerned. But the friendship between the ghost and the son is more like a relationship between a grandson and grandfather. Besides the director, Vivek Sharma, roping in two of the most popular Bollywood stars, in his directorial debut, what is really interesting the family drama angle of the story - its not just for children as some have suggested or as some think, its also for adults.

        The music by Vishal - Shekhar is quite melodious and worth listening and more so when Amitabh sings.

        Conclusion: This is one movie that is worth while watching with family, including children. But if a family drama does make you cry, then I suggest you take some tissues with you.
        7drsajjadpathan

        Watch with and for the Kids... Deserves a Look

        The story of a good and friendly ghost portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh has given an astounding performance, but than his was a performance of his little co-star from Amitabh's own native town of Allahabad, Aman Sddiqui. This boy has a great future ahead. Juhi and Shahrukh did their cameos in a justified way.Rajpal Yadav was hilarious as usual. Music was good and soothing to the ears. The story line was not that strong, but if the movie was made to be targeting the "Krissh" audience and their guardians, we should not be complaining. The media publicity about the story changes in the end to make its sequel in the near future was a good way for keeping the kids happy and guessing for what would be their in the next version. Overall, deserves a watch with and for the kids during this summer vacations.
        7nibeditadasnibi

        Cinema of my childhood

        I loved it. I was 8 then when I did watch this. nostalgic
        8flyingsaucer

        A Quality Movie!

        The movie is about a man who becomes Ghost(Bhooth) after his death. This Ghost is so attached to his house that he doesn't let anyone live in it. One day, comes a little boy with his mother and father to live in the house. While the father is a sailor who goes away on his duty, the mother and the boy live in the house. One night this Ghost tries to haunt the kid(Banku), but Banku doesn't fear him, rather thinks of the ghost as an Angel. Banku and Ghost become friends, and their adventures are recorded in the further story. The movie generally received good reviews, and was a hit at the Box-Office, yet I feel that it was not given applauds it deserved.

        The story is well executed, and pace of the movie is even. Acting wise, Amitabh Bachchan comes again with a spot on performance, I didn't know that a Ghost character can be played so naturally. The small boy, does his part high great confidence and comes up with great performance. Other cast have less time in the movie, but they do their parts neatly. No songs, a plus point. Direction is good. Background score is good.

        Go for this movie, this won't disappoint you.
        10shashaank-mania

        Funny adventures of a Diissatisfied Spirit and a Notorious kid !!!

        BHOOTNATH is a comedy genre movie which has a tragedy as its base. It shows the unfortunate condition of our modern society where children don't want to take the responsibility of their parents in old age similar to Kailash Nath whose son Vijay after studying in America settled there with his wife and avoided his parents. The limit of selfishness crossed when his mother passed away and he came back to India to earn profit by selling his home NATH VILLA. His father didn't allowed so as the memory of his wife Nirmala is attached to this home. This irritates his son and he decided to left him alone there.

        Here happens the TRAGEDIC EVENT ,when Kilash run behind Vijay to stop him ,he slipped from stairs and died but his son didn't listened to his last words. Till then his dissatisfied spirit roaming in the home decided that he will never let anyone reside there.

        THE TURNING POINT came when there comes a family of BANKU his kitchen-shy mom and slap-happy dad to live in the house. The ghost has the plan of scaring the family away. But he runs into the notorious 7 year old Banku who mistakes the ghost as an angel (named him Bhoothnath) and befriends him. Thereby begin the funny antics of Banku and Bhoothnath. With a mere flick of his finger, Bhoothnath is able to do magical feats, and more so willingly at Banku's command.

        The film focuses on the FUNNY ADVENTURES OF THE KID AND THE GHOST until Bhoothnath's past catches up with him.

        BHOOTNATH focuses on the POWER OF LOVE & FORGIVENESS which Kailash regains with the friendship of Banku. Kailah forgave his son but got bounded with the love of Banku ,so he didn't get MOKSHA(or SALVATION) & he returned back to him secretly and the movie is "TO BE CONTINUED" waiting for his next part including me and other fans of Big B.

        I gave movie 10/10 because it has everything -a lot of FUN ,MORAL ,MAGIC ,FICTION as well as EXCELLENT ACTING by all the characters .It should be seen by all the age-groups.

        WOW you should surely buy a DVD of this great movie !!!

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        Storyline

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        Did you know

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        • Trivia
          Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla's 10th movie together. It also remains the last time they worked together, as of 2017.
        • Goofs
          The shadow of the camera dolly is visible over Banku's backside, when he's looking up in the stars for Bhoothnath.
        • Connections
          Followed by Bhoothnath Returns (2014)
        • Soundtracks
          Banku Bhaiya
          Written by Javed Akhtar

          Composed by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani

          Performed by Sukhwinder Singh

          Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

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        • Release date
          • May 9, 2008 (India)
        • Country of origin
          • India
        • Official sites
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        • Language
          • Hindi
        • Also known as
          • Bhootnath
        • Production company
          • NH Studioz
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        • Gross US & Canada
          • $476,032
        • Opening weekend US & Canada
          • $330,246
          • May 11, 2008
        • Gross worldwide
          • $13,236,817
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        • Runtime
          • 2h 30m(150 min)
        • Color
          • Color
        • Sound mix
          • Dolby Digital

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