Anees Bazmee’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’ has a good closing stretch but it’s a slog to get there

Kartik Aaryan, Vidya Balan, and Madhuri Dixit deliver the goods. But the film needed much better writing.

There’s the potential for a solid silly-horror movie in the opening stretch of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, directed… sorry, assembled together by Anees Bazmee. Rooh Baba, the fake exorcist played by Kartik Aaryan, lands up in the outhouse of a palace, where the royal family now lives. Why? Because the palace is occupied by the ghost of Manjulika. This is the name of the character played by Tabu in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, and by Vidya Balan in the first film. So the royal family lives in poverty, and a scene with a tube of toothpaste made me giggle. It’s a stupid sight gag that hits the spot when you are in the mood for a stupid sight gag. The film has a few of these, like the one where Kartik Aaryan (who’s quite good) pretends to be possessed by the spirit of a housewife. That is all we ask for, really, in this sort of movie.

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