Film Review: Bhool Bhulaiyyan

Movie of the year if nothing else. Priyadarshan has again lived upto his reputation. Hilarious and interesting at the same time. With all its suspense its not your usual comedy movie. In keeping with the tradition of previous movies, it has a lot of chaos, twists and turns and such great suspense at least for the first part of the movie. Just landed on the cinemas, this is a movie that you should not miss.

Starts with a 'Raja' arriving to visit his ancesteral palace, which is known among the villagers to be a house haunted by the spirit of a dead female singer, who committed suicide when one of his ancestors murdered the love of her life. She swore to make them pay and never let any Raja prosper. The Raja being a foriegn educated and highly skeptical person dismisses it like anything and then the drama starts to unfold.

Everything about this movie including acting, direction and camera work is excellent. The only thing that I did not like is the ending. The director had absolutely no reason to be too realistic, it was a comedy movie and is allowed luxury of being a fantastically absurd. And, if it were to be factual then they should have worked harder to polish those very rough edges. Though I liked the spirit (no pun intended) behind the effort because they tried to break away from the generally fantastical nature of Indian movies over which no laws of nature or logic seem to apply. All in all, in the most cliched words, a must see movie.