Bhoot Police movie review: Saif Ali Khan and Arjun Kapoor starrer, out on Disney+ Hotstar.
The Bhoot Police intends to make fun of the dhongi babas who deceive people. Its goal is to criticise superstitions and naive faith, but it finally mocks itself.
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Yami Gautam, Jacqueline Fernandez, Jaaved Jaffrey, Rajpal Yadav, Girish Kulkarni, Jamie Lever, Amit Mistry
Director: Pavan Kripalani
Rating: Two and a half stars ( out of 5)
Story: The film follows two ghost-hunting Tantriks, Vibhooti (Saif Ali Khan) and Chiraunji (Arjun Kapoor), who are paid to catch a demon that is said to haunt a tea plantation in Himachal’s beautiful highlands.
Bhoot Police is undone by bad casting and Pankaj Tripathi’s severe inadequacy. It’s more hilarious than terrifying. Bhoot Police is the latest in Bollywood’s continuing flirting with the horror-comedy genre, starring Saif Ali Khan and Arjun Kapoor as brother ghost-busters.
Bhoot Police is a moderately entertaining film with moments of startling emotional depth, albeit it isn’t as crisp as Saif’s Go Goa Gone. However, the film’s over-reliance on genre tropes – anticipate everything from projectile vomit and wall-crawling ghouls to a frightening kid and a haunted forest – prevents it from ever being more than a mediocre film aimed at the masses.
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Stree was an excellent example of combining horror and humour without making either appear frivolous. The Bhoot Police intends to make fun of the dhongi babas who deceive people. Its goal is to criticise superstitions and naive faith, but it finally mocks itself. The tale isn’t as much of a problem as the erroneous thinking that underpins it.
While virtually everything flops, Johnny Lever’s brilliant daughter Jamie Lever is the lone comedienne who makes an impression. You’ll be laughing with laughter as her character sings Aishwarya Rai’s lovely romantic number “Aao Na” while her spouse struggles to take a crap. If you have to see this movie, make it for her.
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