Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship Movie Review
How’s the ghost?? Scary Sir.
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Director: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Producers: Karan Johar, Shashank Khaitan
Star Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Bhumi Pednekar, Ashutosh Rana
After a long its a treat for all horror movie lovers to go and watch a movie they have been waiting for. Karan Johar can make horror movies too. Vicky Kaushal has played his role brilliantly and couldn’t imagine anyone playing this role except him. the film will keep you on the edge of your seat. She plays the role of Bhumi Pednekar is very short in the movie.
The movie is inspired by an actual event at the shores of Juhu Beach in Mumbai where an unmanned ship was found in 2011.
The background music has supported the movie in a very smart way. Adding the suspense to each and every scene. Well, we can say that it is of the elements that the director used smartly to scare you more. The direction was outstanding. The underwater scene was shot perfectly and breath-taking.
For Hollywood horror movie fans it will remind you of Conjuring as Bhoot movie has Snap instead of the clap and it will also remind you of Annabelle as this movie also has a doll. First half of the movie scares you more than the second half.
Overall it’s a movie that you should not miss and also Vicky’s rumored girlfriend Katrina Kaif praised the movie. Karan Johar did not just thank Ram Gopal Verma on Instagram but also in the credits.
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Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship Review - Vicky Kaushal’s spook fest offers a handful of scaresBy Ankita Bhalla on February 20, 2020
Film: Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship
Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Bhumi Pednekar, Ashutosh Rana
Director: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Rating: 3 Moons
Debutant director Bhanu Pratap Singh wastes no time in establishing Vicky Kaushal’s character, Prithvi, as a haunted man. He is a grieving marine officer who lost his wife (Bhumi Pednekar) and daughter in a drowning accident. The only respite in his dreadful existence is speaking to his dead child through a make-shift toy telephone. He refuses to take medicines, survives hallucinations just to see his wife and child after a day’s long work.
One dull morning, a deserted ship ‘Sea Bird’ drifts ashore Juhu Beach in Mumbai. The shipping authorities want the vessel to be moved away and Vicky decides to takes up the mission with his loyal friend Riyaz by his side. The two offer scattered comic punches in the first half, which is the time the film takes to set up its base. Too long!
Soon after, Bhoot: The Haunted Ship, whose title is borrowed from Ram Gopal Verma, plays to the gallery with the usual clichés in any Hindi horror film. There are creaking doors, upside down crawling creatures on walls, a creepy doll and a lot of clicking of fingers.
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But what works in the film’s favour is the grey palette which runs throughout. Pushkar Singh’s cinematography highlights the underwater sequences, the rot on the ship and the creepy feeling with clever camera moments. Believable computer graphics (CGI) and Ketan Sodha’s background score offer a few jump scares, but it’s Bhanu Pratap Singh whose writing fall flats. The plotline, which holds potential, veers towards being unintentionally funny. Editor Bodhatiya Banerjee concludes scenes abruptly, killing the joy of any big reveal.
What holds this ship from sinking is an earnest Vicky. Unlike Talaash, where Aamir Khan and Rani Mukerji as grieving parents made you shed tears, Vicky’s pain doesn’t come through effectively. However, his sincerity cannot be ignored. As a guilt-ridden father, who towards the end (no spoilers) tries his best to make amends, Vicky performs with honesty. Ashutosh Rana is underutilized as Professor Joshi, Bhumi shines in her strictly 10-minute cameo and the actor who is the ‘Bhoot’, lesser said, better.
The film has its moments but by the time the climax clicks in, it’s a little too late and very little! The film leaves you with a sense of incompleteness. Bhoot: The Haunted Ship is not strictly horror. Yet, the ship manages to stay afloat.
PeepingMoon gives 3 Moons to Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship
Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship Movie Review: Far from a scarefest
Ronak Kotecha, TNN, Feb 20, 2020, 09.09 PM IST
Critic's Rating: 2.5
STORY: A young shipping officer Prithvi (Vicky Kaushal) grappling with a massive personal loss, takes it upon himself to unravel the mysteries of a haunted ship. Will he live to tell the tale?
REVIEW: Based on a true incident, the film begins with a chilling scene. As the film proceeds, debutant writer-director Bhanu Pratap Singh begins to tease us with flashes of the incident that led to Sea Bird becoming the dreaded haunted ship. He juxtaposes this with Prithvi’s poignant past. Solving Sea Bird’s mystery deaths gives Prithvi’s life a sense of purpose. Vicky Kaushal carries his character’s guilt and his new found mission with utmost honesty. The actor manages to deliver consistently despite a repetitive screenplay that puts him in the exact same situation, many times over. Bhumi Pednekar as Prithvi’s wife puts in a brief special appearance, while Ashutosh Rana’s character is too casually written to be taken seriously. Rana plays the learned professor Joshi, who moves around with what looks like an old voltmeter to chase away the ghost. When that fails, he even ends up chanting mantras.Generally, the horror films have a few hallmarks to effectively scare its audience. These include well-timed jumpscares, an alarming background score, believable computer graphics (CGI) and make-up (wherever required) that makes the characters look genuinely scary. ‘Bhoot Part One - The Haunted Ship’ manages to throw in a few terrifying moments while keeping the background score subtle. However, the CGI often gives away, but the cinematography is dark and consistently good. The make-up ends up making the characters look unintentionally funny, rather than scary.While the film’s runtime is short, the pace seems exhausting because most of the scenes are concluded abruptly, leaving you waiting for the big reveal. However, the all-important backstory isn’t convincing enough to make your wait worth it. For a horror film, ‘Bhoot Part One The Haunted Ship’ falls short of sending chills down your spine. At best, it can give you a few spooks.
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Bhoot The Haunted Ship movie cast: Vicky Kaushal, Bhumi Pednekar, Ashutosh Rana
Bhoot The Haunted Ship movie director: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Bhoot The Haunted Ship movie rating: 1.5 stars
Vicky Kaushal’s Prithvi is clearly a haunted man. A shipping officer who lost his wife and daughter to a mishap while doing the rapids, an adventure they took at his initiative — that kind of tragedy is hard on the soul, mind etc etc.
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However, Bhoot The Haunted Ship is far from done with him. Under Prithvi’s watch rolls in, against the perpetually grey and clearly fake skyline of Mumbai, a giant ship with no one board.
However, but for the Director General, Shipping, curiously no one is intrigued. Even when people who venture in start disappearing. That leaves the field wide open for Prithvi to wade in, with loyal-to-death friend Riyaz by his side. There is a nudge, nudge wink, wink between the two friends over “the hand of the neighbouring country” in it.
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However, Bhoot, starting with that name which Karan Johar has dutifully thanked Ram Gopal Varma for, is focused on only the small ship to fry. So, don’t go imagining devil on the deep blue sea. This ship is firmly on terra firma, and given that it is little more than a rotting hull, must have cost Dharma Productions little to recreate on set.
Within its murky labyrinth, with no sense of any direction from writer-director Bhanu Pratap Singh, the film doesn’t seem to end. There is a ghost, a love story, a hate story, a smuggling ring, a church, a red dress, a doll, and a lot of clicking of fingers. Pednekar and Rana are there to add some brief acting heft, and to do some mantra-reciting ghost-fighting. A large part, however, is left to the able and much-taxed shoulders of Kaushal.
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The ghost takes its while dying, leaving a glaring and bloody trail for a sequel. (Dharma, dipping its toes into horror, has promised a franchise, which is fertile territory given the dearth in Bollywood.)
Prithvi, who has rescued some girls from being smuggled in a container even as we are still settling into our seats, is asked by Riyaz if he is a Superman, Spider-man or Batman. Singh’s inspirations clearly lie elsewhere (think Shining, multiple times over). Plus, were any of those superheroes equipped with a machine that started beeping crazily in the presence of ghosts?
Movie review: Bhoot Part One — The Haunted Ship
It’s high on eerie atmospherics, but low on genuine scares
19:23 February 20, 2020
Image Credit: Supplied
Manjusha Radhakrishnan Chief Reporter
Film: Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship
Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Asuhtosh Rana, Bhumi Pednekar
Director: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Stars: 2 out of 5
A cracking horror film should have enough scares that startle you and jolt you out of your seats, but Vicky Kaushal’s scream-fest Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship barely scrapes by in that department.
It’s high on eerie atmospherics, but low on genuine scares.
The movie opens with a grieving marine officer Prithvi (Kaushal) struggling to gain closure as a terrible personal tragedy mars his existence.
He was perfectly happy with his vivacious wife (Bhumi Pednekar) and child, but loses his bearings when they die in a freaky drowning accident. He’s deeply troubled and emotionally volatile since their death. It’s safe to say that Prithvi is marooned mentally and emotionally to that fatal accident that claimed his happiness. He even refuses to take drugs to stop the hallucinations because he fears he will lose out on seeing his dead daughter and wife. Speaking to his dead child after an eventful day at work through a make-ship toy telephone is all in a day’s work for him.
But his dreary life gets a boost when a ship washes ashore the Juhu beach in Mumbai, is stuck in the sands and he’s convinced that paranormal beings still live in that giant deserted vessel.
So far, so good. But it takes too long to set the premise and the initial scares that are doled out inside the rusty ship gets old and trite too quick. The frequency with which Prithvi returns to the dilapidated behemoth — despite being greeted by scary screeches, girl-ghosts and unexplained sounds inside the ship — to investigate makes him seem more like an amateur sleuth. His role is the cinematic equivalent of reading one of those popular Nancy Drew novels — where the inexperienced young American detective always saves the day and knows no fear. It might stick with tweens, but won’t fly high with adults.
In one sequence, his friend even reprimands him for being obsessed about going inside the ship by asking ‘do you think you are some kind of a superman’. Our sentiment exactly.
While Kaushal looks dashing as a troubled marine surveyor — whose job is to inspect the vessel — the scares and chills get repetitive.
Unlike Aamir Khan and Rani Mukerji’s brilliant portrayal as grieving parents in the thriller Talaash, Kaushal isn’t very effective in communicating that insurmountable grief. The tears that he sheds during his emotionally-charged scenes in which he remembers his dead family somehow doesn’t have the same heft. You don’t cry with him, but look at him like how you would rubber neck during a road accident. You don’t feel his grief, but Kaushal’s pleasing personality and on-screen presence makes it a lot better.
Pednekar is in brief role and does her bit.
While the scares aren’t necessarily brilliant, the grey palette and the dreary mood goes well with the hero’s troubled mind. The underwater sequences are executed well and the ghosts aren’t unnecessarily gory.
Director Bhanu Pratap Singh has its golden moments, but doesn’t come together as a whole. It’s patchy when it comes to thrills, but it doesn’t bore you to death either.
And my real fear? The movie ends with a teaser to its sequel and that’s what is truly scary. Do you really need to have a second instalment when the first isn’t always spine-chilling.
Review by Bollywood Hungama News Network
20 February 2020 23:01 pm IST
1.5
BHOOT: Part One – The Haunted Ship Movie Rating
The horror genre has taken giant strides in the West and newer concepts have been experimented with to keep the interest going in the genre. Bollywood, however, has lagged behind. Most horror films still follow the template set by the game-changer RAAZ [2002]. But now, Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is all set to present BHOOT: PART ONE – THE HAUNTED SHIP, and it promises to be a one-of-its-kind horror flick. Moreover, it stars Vicky Kaushal who has become extremely popular following the blockbuster success of his last film, URI: THE SURGICAL STRIKE [2019]. So does BHOOT: PART ONE – THE HAUNTED SHIP manage to scare the daylights of the viewers? Or does it fail to impress? Let’s analyse.
BHOOT: PART ONE – THE HAUNTED SHIP is the story of a man facing a scary situation while fighting the horrors of his past. The year is 2012. Prithvi (Vicky Kaushal) is a widower who has lost his wife Sapna (Bhumi Pednekar) and daughter Megha in a freak accident. He is depressed and is avoiding medication. In the midst of all this, an abandoned ship named Sea Bird gets stranded at Mumbai’s Juhu Beach. Prithvi works for a shipping company that is asked to take this ship back to the sea at the earliest. On his first visit to the ship, strange things occur and it makes him feel that the ship is inhabited. However he passes it off as his hallucinations and side effect of his state of mind. The subsequent visits however makes him sure that all this is not a figment of his imagination. During the third visit, he spots a girl at the hull of the ship. He also comes across log books and some video tapes dating back to the year 2001. As he sees the tapes, he realises that the captain’s wife (Meher Vij) and daughter Meera were also present on the ship. Gradually, Prithvi realises that the girl he encountered on the ship is Meera. He goes again to the ship and this time he comes face to face with Meera. But this time, she’s in a ghostly avatar. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
Bhanu Pratap Singh's story is decent and could have made for a gripping scarefest. Bhanu Pratap Singh's screenplay however is unimpressive overall. He gets the scare quotient right only in few scenes. Even in the main story, things are barely convincing. Bhanu Pratap Singh's dialogues are passable.
Bhanu Pratap Singh's direction is nothing great. He makes good use of his knowledge in creating a scary atmosphere. A few scenes are well executed. But most of the scenes fail to impress. Trouble begins in the first 15 minutes itself when a random couple is shown venturing into the massive ship undetected and playing hide and seek. The ship is ten storeys tall and this information is given by the makers themselves just few minutes before this scene. But no explanation is given how the lovers manage to climb atop the deck which is at such a height. This scene actually gave a clear indication that logic and common sense are not going to be the strong points of this film. And sure enough, the absurdities continue in the second half, especially the climax. Many questions are left unanswered and it is sure to baffle viewers when they come out of theatres.
BHOOT: PART ONE – THE HAUNTED SHIP begins on a fair note as Prithvi's past and glimpses of the happenings on the ship in 2001 is depicted. The first half doesn’t have much of a story as such but it keeps you intrigued as the scary atmosphere is well created. A few jump scares also serve the purpose. The interval comes at a great point. Post interval, there’s some movement in the story and you actually get to know where the film is headed. Still, a few unwanted scenes are there, like Prithvi imagining that he’s talking to his dead daughter at the bank of a river. On the positive side, the scene in the church is excellent and one expects the film to go on a high from here. Sadly the climax is riddled with clichés and flawed developments that kill the joy completely.
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Talking of performances, Vicky Kaushal is in good form. He looks very dashing and gets his act right, without going overboard in any scene. Bhumi Pednekar is decent in a cameo. Ashutosh Rana (Professor Joshi) is fine and gives one a déjà vu of his earlier performance in RAAZ. His character sadly gets a raw deal in the end. Akash Dhar (Riyaz) plays Prithvi's best friend and has an important role. He is decent but again, he doesn’t have much to do later. Meher Vij has a superb screen presence but her performance suffers on account of bad writing. Sanjay Gurbaxani (Agnihotri) is average. The actor playing Amar looks a bit creepy which works well. The actors playing Meera and Megha do very well.
Akhil Sachdeva's music has no scope. 'Channa Ve' is played in the opening credits. Ketan Sodha's background score is horrifying and works. Pushkar Singh's cinematography captures the mood very well. Aditya Kanwar's production design is top-notch. The abandoned ship especially is well designed. Natashcha Charak and Nikita Raheja Mohanty's costumes are realistic. Vikram Dahiya's action is filmy and takes away the authenticity. Redefine's VFX is first rate and adds to the horror factor. Bodhaditya Banerjee's editing is dragging and could have been crisper. Ideally, this film shouldn’t have been more than 90 minutes long.
On the whole, BHOOT: PART ONE – THE HAUNTED SHIP suffers from a half-baked plot and a flawed narrative which leaves viewers confused. The end result is completely unconvincing, barring a few scenes that provide some chills. At the box office, it will be rejected by the audience. Disappointing!
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