Bhool Bhulaiya

Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Movie poster of Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Directed by	Priyadarshan
Produced by	Bhushan Kumar
Written by	Neeraj Vora Manisha Korde
Starring	Akshay Kumar Vidya Balan Amisha Patel Shiney Ahuja Paresh Rawal Manoj Joshi
Music by	Pritam
Cinematography	Tirru
Editing by	N. Gopalakrishnan Arun Kumar
Release date(s)	12 October 2007
Running time	159 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi/Bengali
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Bhool Bhulaiyaa (Hindi: भूल भुलैया) is a 2007 Indian Bollywood psychological thriller. The film constitutes the Hindi language release and the official remake of the 1993 Malayalam film, Manichitrathazhu, which was already remade into several Indian regional films.^[1] The film features Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Amisha Patel and Shiney Ahuja in pivotal roles with Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav in supporting roles. The music of the film was composed by Pritam and authored by Sameer.

The film began shooting on February 18, 2007 for a 41-day schedule at Jaipur, India and was released on October 12, 2007.

Plot

The film revolves around a small village/town. Badri (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family^{[citation needed]} whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by a ghost of Manjulika, a Bengali dancer. One day, Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from America and decide to stay for a month in their ancestral palace. Here, Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne.

Events take a twist when Avni opens a locked forbidden room that contains the the ghost of Manjhulika with the help of Nandini who is cousin of Siddarth. Unnatural events start taking place inside the palace. Avni ends up falling in love with the place and begins to learn about Manjulika and her tragic story. Badri and Batuk Shankar (Paresh Rawal) try to ward off the evil eye with the help of a priest and philosopher Yagnaprkash Bharati (Vikram Gokhale), but unfortunately the priest has gone to London and is unsure when he might be back. They try to force back the so called 'evil ghost' of Monjulika to her room with the help of a local priest Chhote Pandit (Rajpal Yadav) but their attempt fails and the priest after seeing the moving shadow of Manjulika coming towards him, ends up being a madman.

Siddharth starts to suspect Radha (Amisha Patel) for all the weird things going around. He thinks that she has gone crazy, since he was supposed to marry her, but instead ended up marrying Avni. So, he calls his friend/psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar) to try to figure out what the problem is with Radha.

Once Aditya reaches the palace things start to become comical as no one in the palace likes him and thinks he is an idiot due to the way he dresses and acts. We later find out that Radha is actually Badri's adopted daughter and he took care of her as if she were his own. Aditya then starts to use modern analytical techniques to find out the reason behind the so-called ghost problem. He eventually realizes that Radha is not at fault, and that there was someone else behind it all. One night, while patrolling the palace, he also encounters the so-called Manjulika and dares her to strike. The ghost, in turn vows to take her revenge on the auspicious day of Durgashtami.

During the engagement of Nandini with Sharad Pradhan (Vineeth), Avni ends up spilling food onto Sharad, and takes him away to get him cleaned. Aditya than notices that Avni is missing and so he asks Siddharth to help him find her. When they do, they see that there is a struggle between Avni and Sharad, and they eventually end up breaking the struggle and Siddharth begins to hit Sharad thinking that he was going to violate Avni. But, Aditya tells him that she is actually the culprit and that she has Dissociative Identity Disorder, a disease that affects the person's identity. To make sure that things work out the way they are supposed to he must bring out Manjulika's identity. In order to support his argument, Aditya reveals that he has visited Avni's hometown to gather information about her childhood and he has factual evidence. He then asks the half-convinced Siddtharth to provoke Avni in order to make her realize that something is wrong. When Siddharth does this, Avni shows personality of Manjulika before coming to her usual self, much to the concern of Siddharth, who asks Aditya to do anything to save Avni.

They then see her (Manjulika) dancing to the music she had been dancing to with her love before the king killed him. Through this we end up learning the sad love story of the old king Vibhuti Narayan, who loved a dancer, Manjulika, who, in turn, loved Shashidhar (also a dancer in the same court). Avni, while possessed by Manjulika's personality, imagined herself and Sharad, (whom she thinks is Shashidhar), dancing in the court of the king. This triggered Avni's disorder; she assumes the identity of Manjulika and tries to kill her own husband Siddharth, as she sees him as Vibhuti Narayan who killed Manjulika's lover and later locked her up in her room where she committed suicide.

In order to cure Avni of her illness, Aditya triggers Manjulika's personality and makes her promise to leave if Manjulika gets the opportunity to kill the king and have her revenge. Meanwhile the priest Yagnapraksh Bharati (who happens to be Aditya's guide) also arrives to visit Siddharth. With his help, during the ritual of Durgashtami, Manjulika is tricked and slays a dummy of Siddharth thinking she was killing the king. After the killing, Manjulika's personality leaves Avni forever. Aditya hypnotizes the unconscious Avni and tells her that everything is fine and that she will continue her life as a sane, happy and healthy person. Everything ends well and Aditya asks Radha to marry him.

Production

Casting

Originally Aishwarya Rai and Katrina Kaif were the first female choices for this film but they turned down the offer due to the film’s irksome comedy style and were replaced by Vidya Balan and Amisha Patel.^[2] Vidya Balan had to take Kathak lessons for this film. Incidentally, Vineeth played the exact same character in the Rajnikanth-starrer Chandramukhi in 2005 which is one of the respective remakes of Manichithrathazhu. Here, he reprised his role.

The original story of the film was written by Madhu Muttam. Though he claimed this film as a violation of copyright, the High Court of Kerala allowed the violation of copyright, in light of the production cost. The film came under a cloud of controversy after a Buddhist organisation objected to the title song in the movie as disrespectful to venerated icons.

Cast

• Akshay Kumar ... Dr. Aditya Shrivastav
• Vidya Balan ... Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manjulika
• Amisha Patel ... Radha
• Shiney Ahuja ... Siddharth Chaturvedi / King Vibhuti Narayan
• Paresh Rawal ... Batukshankar Upadhyay
• Rajpal Yadav ... Chhote Pandit (Natwar)
• Manoj Joshi ... Badrinarayan Chaturvedi
• Vineeth ... Professor Sharad Pradhan / Shashidhar
• Asrani as ... Murari
• Tareena Patel ... Nandini Upadhyay
• Rasika Joshi ... Janaki Upadhyay
• Vikram Gokhale ... Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti
• Kaveri Jha ... Girja

Music

Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Studio album by Pritam Chakraborty
Released	September 2, 2007 (India)
Label	T-Series
Producer	Pritam Chakraborty
Pritam Chakraborty chronology
Dhol (2007) Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) Jab We Met (2007)

The music of the film is composed by Pritam. The title track Bhool Bhulaiyaa broke all chartbusters.

Other Remakes

Box Office

The film opened to a 85-95% response, which was the second best opening of the year after Partner^{[citation needed]}. It was well-liked by cinema-goers for its mild comedy and psychological suspense^{[citation needed]}. It was director Priyadarshan's 8th successive super-hit movie. Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan were particularly praised by critics for their roles as Dr. Aditya and Avni.^[3]

References

External links

• Official Website of Bhool Bhulaiyaa at Eros
• Bhool Bhulaiyaa Official Website
• Bhool Bhulaiyaa at the Internet Movie Database

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