Movie Review: Bhootnath

Movie: Bhootnath
Cast:Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav, Tejas Are, Vijay Nath, Satish Shah, Aman Siddiqui

Music Director:Shekhar Ravjiani, Vishal Dadlani, Salim Merchant
Story Writer:Vivek Sharma
Director:Vivek Sharma
Producer:Ravi Chopra
Banner:B. R. Films

Bhoothnath is the story of a young boy and a ghost. A young Banku (Aman Siddiqui) and Bhoothnath (Amitabh Bachchan), a ghost, become friends and help each other in various walks of life.
‘Bhoothnath’tells the story of a ghost inside a swanky, neglected, uninhabited house in Goa. The ghost named Kedarnath is in limbo, and he won’t let anyone live inside the house, Nath Villa, to which his fond memories are attached. But then comes a family of Banku (Aman Sidiqqui), his kitchen-shy mom ( Juhi Chawla ) and slap-happy dad ( Shah Rukh Khan ) to live in the house.

The story seems to go in circles as the film focuses on the adventures of the kid and the ghost until Bhoothnath’s past catches up with him. Thereon, the tongue-in-cheek humour of the film wisps out of the plot and melodrama comes in, and the movie becomes a tearjerker, though just partly effective.

‘Bhoothnath’ works mainly in the first half, when it’s funny. Writer-director Vivek Sharma fumbles in the second half, when he obviously feels a necessity to give a definite direction to the plot and veers the story into heavy melodrama reminiscent of films like Baghban .

This is a story that will show adults to see the world through the eyes of a child… an angel, a creation of god. It's then that one will realize what a beautiful world they live in after all.
If only the film also had such a helping hand to pull it out of the mire of weepy melodrama.

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Movie Review: Jimmy

Movie: Jimmy
Cast:Mimoh Chakraborty, Pooja Singh, Zulfi Syed, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ehsaan Khan, Rati Agnihotri, Rahul Dev, Shakti Kapoor, Vineeta Thakur, Adi Irani, Vikas Anand, Gargi Patel, Vivana , Vikaas Kalantri

Music Director:Anand Raj Anand, Bappa Lahiri
Playback Singer:Shaan , Anand Raj Anand, Kailash Kher, Kunal Ganjawala
Story Writer:Ranbir Pushp
Producer:Nawman Malik, Salman Malik
Production Designer:Saima Malik
Banner: High Defination Motion Pictures
Director:Raj N. Sippy

Mimoh’s first movie ‘Jimmy’ seems like a film from a bygone era. It is as if the writer found an obsolete script – with a few pages missing, at that – and pepped it up with twists and turns borrowed from more than one source. To add to the proceedings, the director (Raj Sippy) decided to have a number of songs in the film solely to showcase the newcomer’s dancing skills. And voila! A dream launch is ready for Mimoh. Only, it is a launch that doesn’t promise a successful take-off.

One of the many tragedies of ‘Jimmy’ is that it purports to showcase Mimoh’s dancing skills with songs that hardly sound appealing. However, to be fair, Mimoh’s quite a dancer, but the fact doesn’t stand out because the dances have been choreographed and shot in a way that fails to capture the power or the spirit of the music.

Enough about dancing, now let’s get to something serious.

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