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Hindi | भूल भुलैया |
Directed by | Priyadarshan |
Produced by |
Bhushan Kumar Kishan Kumar |
Screenplay by | Neeraj Vora |
Story by | Madhu Muttam |
Based on |
Manichitrathazhu by Madhu Muttam |
Starring |
Akshay Kumar Ameesha Patel Vidya Balan Shiney Ahuja Vineeth |
Music by |
Songs: Pritam Background Score: Ranjit Barot |
Cinematography | Tirru |
Edited by | N. Gopalakrishnan Arun Kumar Aravind |
Distributed by |
T-Series Eros International |
Release date
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Running time
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154 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | ₹840 million (equivalent to ₹1.8 billion or US$26 million in 2016) |
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Soundtrack album by Pritam | ||||
Released | 2 September 2007 (India) | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Length | 52:65 | |||
Label | T-Series | |||
Producer | Pritam | |||
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Bhool Bhulaiyaa (English: The Maze) is a 2007 Indian drama/comedy horror film directed by Priyadarshan. It constitutes the official remake of the 1993 Malayalam film, Manichitrathazhu, starring Mohanlal. which was already remade into several Indian films.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa features Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Ameesha Patel and Shiney Ahuja in pivotal roles with Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav in supporting roles. The film score and soundtrack of the film was composed by Ranjit Barot and Pritam respectively, and the lyrics were written by Sameer. It was a critical and commercial success.
The disorder suffered by the protagonist, dissociative identity disorder is an actual mental health problem. When the symptoms of the illness are explained, its most famous case is shown, that of an American woman named Shirley Ardell Mason.
Badri (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, an odissi dancer from Bengal. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from United States and decide to stay in their ancestral palace. This leads to Siddharth's childhood love interest Radha (Ameesha Patel), becoming jealous but she immediately recovers. Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne.