**❤️**Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Movie Review**❤️**

**❤️**Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Movie Review**❤️**





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Horror comedies are a nascent genre in India. Filmmakers have taken to it only recently. Some good examples of it is Go Goa Gone (2013), a zombie horror film which also had you rolling in the aisles and Stree (2013), which packed horror, comedy and a social message in equal measure. The original Bhool


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 Bhulaiyaa (2007) can be said to be a pioneering film of the genre in Hindi cinema. It mixed comedy with psychological horror and remains immensely watchable even now. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 borrows some elements of the original but isn’t a direct sequel. One can say it’s a spiritual successor at best. It

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 has Chhota Pandit (Rajpal Yadav) straight from the original, is set in a giant haveli, and the ghost here too is called Manjulika. And it makes good use of the iconic Ami je tomar from the first film. But apart from these similarities, it’s a different film altogether. As said earlier, the original was steeped in


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 psychological horror, whereas this one is a straight possession horror flick, full of black magic, spirit possession, and poltergeist acts. Ruhan (Kartik Aaryan) chances upon Reet (Kiara Advani) while vacationing in Himachal and it’s love at first sight for him. He’s so smitten by her that he follows her to


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 her home in Rajasthan to sort out a crisis and helps her hide away in the haunted family mansion. Later, thanks to his claims of seeing dead people, he gets christened as Rooh Baba by the villagers and sets about solving their problems. Everything is going hunky dory, till Manjulika (Tabu), the spirit that

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 haunts the mansion, decides to make an appearance. All hell breaks loose till then and even Ruhan’s quick wit and dimpled smile might not be enough to save them all. The film doesn’t explode into a horror fest right from the first frame. It starts off as a rom com. The writers thankfully don’t succumb to

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 toilet humour to bring in the laughs. The jokes, though being juvenile, are easy breezy and the charm of Kartik Aaryan carries them through. The gags keep you smiling, especially in the first half. Anees Bazmee has made enough comedy films to know what buttons he should push. It’s only when the film

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 segues into horror that his command over the product falters. Perhaps the makers wanted a family entertainer and hence didn't fully exploit the opportunities for a blood and gore spectacle, like Evil Dead, which was funny as hell despite the horror elements. So what you get are plenty of jump cuts and

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 crazy camera angles, none of which send a shiver down your spine. The film is a mixture of two divergent personalities. You have Tabu on one hand using all her experience and method acting to create something palatable out of a character sketch that takes more turns than a jalebi. Then you have

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 Kartik Aaryan on the other hand whose affable, cool guy self is the antithesis to Tabu’s character. Tabu channels the spirit of Lady Macbeth while essaying Manjulika. She’s an actress who can make mundane look sublime and watching her doing black magic does induce goosebumps as she’s so damn

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 convincing. She’s thrown herself into the role of a mad, jealous witch with gusto. Can she ever do something wrong? Kudos to her for another fine performance. Kiara Advani plays the woke youngster who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But her surprise and bafflement upon actually encountering one isn’t

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 played up enough. She beautifies the frame whenever she’s around and shares a crackling chemistry with Kartik. The original starred Akshay Kumar as the protagonist and thankfully Kartik hasn’t tried to fill Akshay’s shoes. Instead of aping his senior, Kartik has wisely chosen to be his own goofy self in the

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 film. You don’t ever end up comparing him to Akshay. He implants his own energy to the role and lets his charm do the trick. He delivers the cornball dialogue with aplomb and just moves with the flow of the film. His spirit possession scene is his big moment in the film. That’s where he shows he can be

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 more than good-looking-boy-next-door. He’s perfectly cast as the carefree, rich slacker and ticks all the brackets. Watch the film for Tabu’s and Kartik’s performances and for its comic elements. 


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 TRAILER : BHOOL BHULAIYAA 2

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