{"id":295238,"date":"2025-05-01T19:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/the-bhootnii-movie-review-0-star-review-this-film-lacks-plot-production-value-sense-and-sensibility\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:59:21","slug":"the-bhootnii-movie-review-0-star-review-this-film-lacks-plot-production-value-sense-and-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/the-bhootnii-movie-review-0-star-review-this-film-lacks-plot-production-value-sense-and-sensibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bhootnii movie review: 0 star review; this film lacks plot, production value, sense and sensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Within a few minutes of the film\u2019s opening, I asked myself: what am I doing here? Two hours, ten minutes, and what seems like a lifetime of groaning-and-moaning later, I have zero answers to that one. Horror comedies may be the flavour of the season after the \u2018Stree\u2019 jamboree, but even its part 2 was nowhere close to the delightful original. In this new film, we get a \u2018The\u2019, emphasising that this is not your random garden variety of bhootni, but a very specific one, with a double i to boot. Ergo, this one will stand apart.<\/p>\n

Which it does. It proudly and flagrantly stands apart from any vestiges of plot and production values, forget about sense and sensibility.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a college called St Vincent\u2019s in Delhi<\/a>, in which stands the Virgin Tree, around which love-struck students moon. This so-called college, which looks like a badly-constructed set, has scores of so-called students, of which our trio \u2014 Shantanu (Sunny Singh), Sahil (Nickunj Sharma), and Nasser (Aasif Shaikh) \u2014 is busy staving off needy spirits with the help of a black hoodie-clad ghostbuster called Baba (Sanjay Dutt<\/a>), who quotes solemnly from the Gita about the \u2018aatma\u2019 being \u2018ajar and amar\u2019. He also says, \u2018yeh chudail nahin, adhoori khwaish hai\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Nope, I am not making any of this up.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s our Bhootni-in-chief, who goes by the name of Mohabbat (Mouni Roy). She has a tragic back-story, and emerald green eyes. She likes yanking \u2018scardey-cat\u2019 (this is an actual English subtitle from the movie, I swear) boys into the skies, and asking them, \u2018tumhari hobbies kya hain\u2019? Can\u2019t see a broomstick, but anything is possible, right?<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s loads of disjointed chatter about science and religion (vigyaan aur dharm), Valentine\u2019s Day and Holika Dahan, and oh, do not miss this woke stroke, \u2018koi Hindu Muslim ka time hai yeh\u2019. Hear hear. It takes a film which is not even a film, just some scattered, stray ideas masquerading as one, to come up with that one.<\/p>\n

At one point the Bhootnii bats her lashes and says, I am not alive. Nor am I, dear reader, nor am I.<\/p>\n

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The Bhootnii movie cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Singh, Mouni Roy, Palak Tiwari, Aasif Khan, Nickunj Sharma<\/p>\n

The Bhootnii movie director:<\/strong>\u00a0Siddhant Sachdev<\/p>\n

The Bhootnii movie rating:<\/strong> 0 stars<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n