Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022)

'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' revolves around Ruhan Randhawa (Kartik Aaryan) and Reet Rathore (Kiara Advani). The two meet as strangers on a bus journey but become friends after they become the lone survivors of a fatal accident. Reet decides to feign that she is dead in front of her family so that she can help her sister get married to the man she loves. Ruhan decides to help her in this pursuit and in doing so, he lands up in a haunted palatial mansion, which is owned by Reet's family. Legend has it that the haunted mansion is the home to a ghost called Manjulika. What happens next formulates the crux of the story.

Tabu is pretty much the only saving grace of this film. She not only excels in her performance, but it is only her character that brings some sense to whatever is happening in the storyline. Her makeup is on point, and that helps to keep the horror angle intact. Big applause to the makeup team.

Art director Ajay Verekar and production designer Rajat Poddar are fantastic. The way they have showcased the sets and even the live locations brings the story alive.

It's true that the first 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa' movie's background score comes in handy at places to make the audiences relive the original film, however, Sandeep Shirodkar's background score is also praiseworthy as it manages to bring in the horror feel at every necessary juncture.

After trying to do something different with 'Dhamaka', Kartik Aaryan is back to being the boy next door - something that he has been doing in almost every movie of his career. When will he start acting and stop en-cashing on his cutesy good looks ?

Kiara Advani doesn't have enough to do in the film. While the female lead in the first film, Vidya Balan, had a terrific character to portray with so many layered nuances to the character, Advani plays quite a forgettable character. One scene where she turns into Manjulika (which has been shown even in the trailer) is pretty much the only scene where audiences get to see some acting from her. Otherwise, it's just too lacklustre.

The first film had supporting cast members like Paresh Rawal, Vikram Gokhale, Rajpal Yadav, Manoj Joshi and many others who played important characters in the storyline. In this, there is not one supporting role that remains stuck in the audience's minds after walking out of the theatre. Not even Rajpal Yadav could bring back his old charm. The trio of Sanjay Mishra, Ashwini Kalsekar and Rajpal Yadav has not only been entirely wasted, but their acts are also so drab that audiences are left getting angry thinking about when will they get off-screen.

The biggest drawback of 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' is in its writing. Farhad Samji and Aakash Kaushik have come up with a very lackadaisical story and added some completely unnecessary punchlines and dialogues to it. It's 2022 after all, and as an audience, it would be criminal to be continuing to laugh at sexist and fat-shaming jokes. The writers tried hard to create the slapstick comedy era of the late 2000s but failed miserably in the pursuit. Take this: the youngest daughter of the family (Kiara Advani) has reportedly passed away in a bus accident somewhere in the snowy mountains of north India, and no one - absolutely no one - from the entire extended family residing in Rajasthan decides to go up there and at least have a look at the dead body or do some investigation around the death. There are many such instances which will make the audiences scratch their heads off

Fmovies: I really don't know why people liked it ! Only one or two comedy was good. Illogical story with bad acting. Typical Bollywood bad drama. Please don't waste your time.

Rajpal Yadav and Sanjay Mishra such a fine actors but director wasted their potential by not giving good dialogue or comedy punch. Movie is total crap. Why they show crows? Why they show vfx cat? How nonsensical the musical instruments started hanging in the air ? Tabbu is full of Multani mitti make up. Why and how comfortably Kiera hide in such a big haveli. When it is clear not to open the door then why they open the door? Illogical hopless crap. Best thing about movie is credit song played after the end of the movie with Karthik dance moves.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 fmovies. I don't understand how people are rating this high. Feels like expectations from Bollywood has gone down a lot. Some scenes and dialogues of this movie are good and that's it. Beyond that movie lacks everything else. It's highly inconsistent, the main character lacks depth, Kiara is not needed in the movie (doesn't do anything significant) and horror is very cliche. You can re-watch bhool bhulaiya one and avoid this completely!

Level of Bollywood stoop to new low because of this movie. No one can act in this movie, not even funny.

Left theatre in interval unable to take torture.

One of the worst movie Horrible performance by Karthik Aryan Poor Direction & screenplay Pathetic comedy Terrible first half followed by horrible second half

My rating 0.5/10.