Bhool Bhulaiyaa

"Enter at your own risk."

2007 2h 38m HI

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 227

ComedyHorrorThriller

Synopsis

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NRI Siddharth Chaturvedi and his wife Avni return to Siddharth's family's ancestral Varanasi palace while disregarding warnings of a curse and paranormal phenomena. Soon enough, inexplicable events begin occuring, which forces Siddharth to consult the eccentric psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav to help solve the mystery.

“Enter at your own risk.”

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Cast

Akshay Kumar
Dr. Aditya 'Adi' Shrivastav
Shiney Ahuja
Siddharth Chaturvedi
Vidya Balan
Avni S. Chaturvedi
Paresh Rawal
Batukshankar Upadhyay
Ameesha Patel
Radha Chaturvedi
Manoj Joshi
Badrinarayan 'Badri' Chaturvedi
Rajpal Yadav
Chhote Pandit
Asrani
Murari

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Priyadarshan
Writers: Neeraj Vora, Madhu Muttam
Languages: Hindi
Countries: India

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 158 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $3.8M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Bhool Bhulaiyaa Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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WORLD

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Priyadarshan, shot by S. Thirunavukkarasu. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Pritam Chakraborty. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor N. Gopalakrishnan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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The take

Priyadarshan directs. S. Thirunavukkarasu behind the camera. Pritam Chakraborty scores. N. Gopalakrishnan cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in India. Dialogue in Hindi.

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1Clocks in at 158 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Shot for just $3.8M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 19 years ago.
4Part of the "Bhool Bhulaiyaa Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
6Directed by Priyadarshan, shot by S. Thirunavukkarasu. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Pritam Chakraborty. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor N. Gopalakrishnan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Akshay Kumar and Shiney Ahuja and Vidya Balan carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Enter at your own risk.".
11IMDB entry: tt0995031 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 9 themes, including "haunted house", "paranormal phenomena", "remake", "eccentric".