Aishwarya Kandpal

Loose storytelling, highly underutilised side characters, a generous sprinkling of what often looks like forced comedy and really randomly interspersed romantic songs, Bhool Bhulaiya is still a fun watch and I’ll tell you why. What makes the film truly watchable are the performances by Vidya Balan and Madhuri Dixit! The women are beautiful, graceful, gorgeous albeit the filmmaker doesn’t seem to have utilise their full talent. It’s still amazing to watch the two ladies fight, scream, scare and raise their arched eyebrows throughout in the film. Kartik Aryan continues to emulate Akshay Kumar throughout and if you know what that means you won’t be surprised to see him do this on repeat. But putting aside all the loopholes, the movie is a definite entertainer and scores high on jump scares, partially decent performances by the main characters, the 2000s nostalgia and some well timed plot twists!

The show leaves you high and dry. After a brilliant trailer, Betaal doesn’t do much to hold up to its image of fright and scares. Coming from Patrick Graham and Red Chillies Entertainment, I had far higher expectations from this show but it, but it’s just a bad story with a really sad narrative. The first two episodes provide a great build up to the remaining series and you’re expecting something massive to happen, but going forward the story line is so weak, so poorly narrated and so lose, that it makes you laugh instead of making you feel scared. Poor acting, lose storytelling and 4 lengthy episodes of a show which could well wind up in 2 episodes!

Give it all the 2 stars you want. Like most of his films, this too would be remembered and lauded for what it is, four years later.

It’s a terrible film with zero scares. Don’t go after the fake reviews online.