I'm surprised to see the inferior quality of the frames that make up Bhoot (Ghost) which also boasts of an unimaginative plot and a cliched narrative involving a protagonist (Vicky Kaushal) who's flawed on the head. At first look, Bhoot looks like it could have been made so well with a ship as the backdrop, but then as the story unfolds, you see the growing madness and ridiculous elements that look like they were borrowed from all the horror movies put together. It's those tropes all over again: jumpscares when you are almost expecting them, a backstory that is supposed to tug at your heartstrings, a spirit with lots of inconsistency in form and character, and superficial scientific morals. There are a few shots involving the abandoned ship that are the only positives I found in Bhoot which should answer the question about Kaushal's sleep-walking performance and the near funny characterisation of Ashutosh Rana. Do yourself a favour and skip Bhoot; the news around is enough to scare you. TN.

BHOOT PART ONE : THE HAUNTED SHIP REVIEW -

Horror films were surprisingly trending topics in 80s when Ramsay bros came up with some terrific horror films. They cracked a formula of masala horror films and mainstream audience went in large numbers to see their films. In recent years we saw a very few horror films in bollywood touching that high level of popularity. Maybe, the audience was never that much interested in horror flicks or maybe that kind of quality horror film was never made by Bollywood recently to keep audience interested for such films, either reason from both resulted into making horror genre less popular in India. After all this our Indian audience got interested in Hollywood horror films came in last decade and left them spellbound with terrifying experience and going wow over technical accuracy. 2 top production houses like Dharma and Zee Studios noticed this thing and attempted a horror drama in the form of 'Bhoot Part One : The Haunted Ship' in bollywood.

The first film of the franchise 'Bhoot Part One : The Haunted Ship' is based on fictional horror story but the idea starts by the reference of a real event. An unknown ship (Sea Bird) has landed to Juhu beach, Mumbai which is of course haunted by a ghost. A shipping officer goes for an inspection, who has lost his wife and daughter in an accident leaving him with hallucination problem. He smells something is unnaturally wrong on the ship and decides to go for the detailing and solving all the mess. By the end you get to know all things like what he founds? Why the ghost is there? And what it wants?

Vicky Kaushal as shipping officer Prithvi put up a decent act. His expressions in scary scenes are fantastic but his acting in rest of the film could have been better. Bhumi Pednekar as his beautiful wife has very little role and disappears even before you notice her. Ashutosh Rana's role (Prof. Joshi) is written very roughly and those mantra chants were too obvious in this genre. Talented Meher Vij fits perfectly into Vandana's character and doesn't fail to disappoint with her gorgeous face. Akash Dhar as Vicky Kaushal's best friend Riyaz brings much needed laughter and light moments in this intense script.

Now coming to the technical parts of the film, the best among all is Sound designing. In every horror film the sound department plays a big role because that's the only thing which can scare outta audience with disturbing noises. The combination of Sound designing, Background score (by Ketan Sodha) and Cinematography (by Pushkar Singh) blend a perfect mixture here and will surely make you wince from your seat. VFX work on ghost's face and ship designing is fabulous. Even after a short runtime of less than 2 hours the screenplay has some flaws. The writing could have been more grippy and intelligent. Generally such films doesn't need unnecessary music and Akhil Sachdeva's only song in this film, "Channa Ve" comes at the beginning which is actually a correct timing.

Bhanu Pratap Singh lacks the brilliance in story-telling. I will tell you why.. The film starts on a slow note and then trickles a proper scenerio and then suddenly loses the tempo to spoil the atmosphere it has created just a while ago. This up and down in momentum hurts the overall experience. A ghost, a love story, a redemption, a revenge, a hate story, a smuggling racket, a backdrop, a doll, a ship and bla bla.. all these things could have been used and mixturised much better than this. Coming to the minuses in the script, there are some loopholes in the film, some scenes were wasted for no reason, the biggest unanswered question in the film is about the lead character and couple of more small mistakes were made by writer and the director.

As we all know, Bollywood might fail to match Hollywood level but we have our own universe and our own audience, so anyone trying to compare 'Bhoot Part One : The Haunted Ship' with any Hollywood horror film is doing unfair. This should be considered as a fresh attempt in our country rather than making a sandwich of it between comparison and criticism. It's been a long time that we haven't seen a situational horror film, all recent films were either overdramatic or too optimistic and this is at least something different. Vicky Kaushal's convenient performance and technical brilliance are two watchable things in this film and that's fair enough to give it a watch. If you love horror genre, if you want to experience those chilling horrifying moments then there's is nothing wrong in giving a try to 'Bhoot Part One : The Haunted Ship'. I don't really think this experience is gonna work in India where most of our multiplex audience are loving Hollywood horror films and therefore i don't think there should be more sequels coming after this part one.

Rating- 4/10*

What a rubbish movie ! The story was interesting but screenplay and presentation both are worst including many loopholes and fully illogical. Movie goes in way that one scene other and one scene of Jump scare like all audiences are fools whom filmmaker presents anything on the name of scariness. I have some questions while seeing the movie.

1. It is a big ship, how someone reach the deck? 2. There is no security for such unknown ship. 3. How a girl lives for many years without food ? Bhoot may be fidding her. 4. Time line of past incidents is very confusing. 5. Why was Bhoot waiting for many years ? 6. What did do Vandana at church while she was Hindu ? 7. What is connection of drowning Vishal's family with main story plot ? 8. What is about part 2 ?

Acting of Vicky is not impressive. Who talks about his super acting ? Bhoomi Pednekar has wasted role. Climax is like old Bollywood horror movie like Ramsay Brothers' typical flick. Nothing new from new generation director ?

All those things made this movie a foolish attempt to saying 'bhoot'. Most of scenes are similar to us as they had been watched by us many times in such stupid Bollywood movies.