"...usse pehli baar kab mila, aakri baar kab dekha...I want everything including coffee."
this one line said oh so subtly by "Qureishi, Liyaqat Qureishi" (Nana Patekar) was the best part of the movie. don't get me wrong the opening credits and some of the performances were good, cinematography was nice, and i loved the "no songs" concept, but the movie was truly one of the biggest letdowns i have ever faced. this movie has made me lose a great deal of my respect for Mr. Ramgopal Varma.
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"But the changes were carried out in such a way that no one could guess where the actual inspiration of BHOOT came from.â€
I'll tell you where the "actual inspiration" came from, THE EXORCIST (1973). out of all the reviews [and posts on this forum] i've read, not one mentions the fact that BHOOT [and it's "original", RAAT] is highly inspired by one of the best horror movies of all time, and i'm sorry to say, Urmila is no way Linda Blair.
i tolerated RAAT, and the Scarface-inspired scenes in COMPANY, but i let that lack of originality slide reminding myself that he made the best movie of recent times (SATYA). first of all, what does he have under his belt? DAUD? DROHI? the truly mediocre JUNGLE? now i look back and realize that only two movies made me respect him as highly as i did, SATYA and RANGEELA. then i remember why i liked those movies so much: SATYA because of Anurag Kashyap's story; and RANGEELA due to Aamir Khan's brilliant performance and dialogue (Sanjay Chhel). I also must say that i loved MAST, but for that i credit Ramesh Khatkar for his screenplay.
so why did i hold him so highly?
answer: i looked at his competition in mainstream bollywood cinema and realized...he had none! directorially, in those two movies alone, nobody could touch him, he was light years ahead of his commercial cinema buddies.
and that fact remains with BHOOT, but what threw me off the RGV bandwagon is that he remade a movie that was copied from an extremely popular American film. That makes him as bad as any of these other directors out here passing movies off as if they were their own personal concoction when we know damn well they're not! and he wants to appeal to western audiences?? hell, if i showed BHOOT to any of my friends, they'd have a riot making fun of it!
I advise everyone to watch THE EXORCIST, but i'd recommend it for those who are 18 and over (although i saw it when i was 
. when this movie first came out, there were actually people coming out of the theater on stretchers!
and i must say, KHUSHI has scarred my opinion of Fardeen Khan. after that disaster, i shant take him seriously as an "actor" ever again.
Edited By musafir02 on 1055582091
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