Bhoothnath
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| Hindi | भूतनाथ |
| Directed by | Vivek Sharma |
| Produced by | Ravi Chopra |
| Screenplay by | Vivek Sharma Sudhanshu Dube |
| Starring |
Amitabh Bachchan Aman Siddiqui Shah Rukh Khan Juhi Chawla Satish Shah Rajpal Yadav Priyanshu Chatterjee |
| Music by |
Vishal-Shekhar Salim-Sulaiman |
| Distributed by | B R Films |
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Running time
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136 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹200 million (equivalent to ₹390 million or US$5.8 million in 2016) |
| Box office | ₹684 million (equivalent to ₹1.3 billion or US$20 million in 2016) |
Bhoothnath ("Lord of Ghosts") is a 2008 Bollywood horror comedy film directed by Vivek Sharma, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Aman siddiqui,Priyanshu Chatterjee and Rajpal Yadav in lead roles and features Shah Rukh Khan in a supporting role. The film is an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde short story "The Canterville Ghost". A sequel titled Bhoothnath Returns was released on 11 April 2014. Kk It was released on 9 May 2008, receiving generally positive reviews from critics and was well received by audiences, thus becoming a moderate success at the box office. Moreover, it was a very popular movie among children and the performances of the main trio (Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, and Aman Siddiqui) were praised by critics and audiences alike.
The story focuses on Aman Sharma a.k.a. Banku (Aman Siddiqui), who has recently shifted into an old bungalow in Goa, with his parents, Aditya (Shah Rukh Khan) and Anjali (Juhi Chawla). His father Aditya is an engineer on a cruise line, and therefore moves with his cruise. They are made aware that the bungalow is haunted, but they disregard this. Banku is enrolled in St. Francis High School, and Anjali hires a kindhearted and comedic drunken thief, Anthony (Rajpal Yadav), as a servant to clean the house. One night, Banku goes down to the living room to have some ice cream when he sees a shadow on the wall. Frightened, he calls out to his mother, before seeing that the bowl in which he was having ice cream has vanished. Later, Banku returns and passes a sleeping Anjali to investigate. He then sees the ghost of Kailash Nath (Amitabh Bachchan) and then they start arguing on whether Kailash is a ghost or an angel (according to Banku, who constantly persists that Nath is an angel rather than a ghost). Banku nicknames him Bhootnath as Kailash says that he is a bhooth (ghost) and also says that "Nath" is his last name.
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