{"id":6274,"date":"2016-04-30T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T08:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2016-04-30T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T08:55:22","slug":"bhoot-part-one-review-dharma-productions-please-leave-horror-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6274","title":{"rendered":"Bhoot: Part One Review: Dharma Productions, Please Leave Horror Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>here is something to be said about the misguided confidence of Karan Johar<\/a>\u2019s Dharma Productions announcing franchises for movies without testing their fate at the box-office first. Ayan Mukherji\u2019s unreleased, star-studded fantasy drama, Brahamastra<\/em>, for instance, is scheduled to be in three parts. Similarly, this week\u2019s release, Bhanu Pratap Singh\u2019s Bhoot<\/em> has \u201cPart One\u201d in its title, which, given the unbearable pretentiousness of the 114-minute film, is a scary threat. By now, the production house\u2019s tendency to make movies solely as business propositions should come as no surprise, but even by their standards of missing the mark, the dullness of its recent outings should warrant some reflection.\n\nThe reputation of the Hindi horror genre is not much to write home about. Over the years, Bollywood has gone out of its way to make the genre a refuge for actors seeking comebacks, near-discarded scripts, and melodrama that parodies itself. In that sense, the expectations from Bhoot<\/em> were at really low \u2013 the film had a chance to stand out even without doing a whole lot. Even then, the laborious movie fails to live up to its ingenious premise, marred by a half-baked plot, repetitive cliches<\/a>, and a jarring aesthetic.\n\n

Bhoot<\/em> is the kind of film that Johar will label as \u201chigh concept\u201d in innumerable interviews<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nBhoot<\/em> is the kind of film that Johar will label as \u201chigh concept\u201d in innumerable interviews, which in the Dharma universe is shorthand for films that only give you the illusion of being smart. The only consistent thing about it are its inconsistencies. The film revolves around a deserted ship, a haunted protagonist with a tragic past, and Ashutosh Rana\u2019s ghost from Raaz<\/em>. In it, Prithvi (Vicky Kaushal<\/a>) is a shipping officer grieving the accidental death of his wife and kid, who is tasked with investigating an abandoned ship that washes up on Juhu beach<\/a>. That the ship, nicknamed Seabird, is haunted is generously spoon-fed as is the fact that Prithvi is an unreliable protagonist faced with evil spirits, his guilt translates into hallucinations. Any time something spooky is about to happen, the script plays Captain Obvious in the worst possible ways.\n\nFor his part, Kaushal is earnest to a fault, physically and emotionally exerting himself in scene after scene to offer up a portrait of a man defeated by himself. But the abrupt screenplay doesn\u2019t have the smarts to etch out Prithvi as a convincing character. It\u2019s not entirely clear why he is drawn to the mystery ship despite seeing and hearing things onboard first-hand. The film\u2019s preferred mode of explaining its own plot is just magically placing clues and ghost-detectors as and when it is convenient. Sure, most Hindi horror films<\/a> employ a dose of convenience and contrivance to make their case, but Bhoot<\/em> abuses that privilege to an extent where even the jump-scares start feeling comforting. For a film that brings nothing new to the genre, Bhoot<\/em>\u2019s reveal isn\u2019t even that hard to guess, given the film\u2019s steadfast refusal to take any leap of faith. There\u2019s very little point to watching Bhoot<\/em>, apart from developing a fondness for the time Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu used to be chasing ghosts.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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