Bhoothnath (2008)

Bhootnath Movie Trailer 2008

Crew

Directed by     Vivek Sharma
Produced by     Ravi Chopra
Screenplay by     Vivek Sharma, Sudhanshu Dube
Music by     Vishal-Shekhar ,Salim-Sulaiman
Distributed by     B R Films

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Kailash Nath (Bhoothnath)
    Aman Siddiqui as Aman (Banku)
    Juhi Chawla as Anjali Sharma
    Shahrukh Khan as Aditya Sharma
    Priyanshu Chatterjee as Vijay Nath
    Shaana Diya as Vijay Nath's Wife
    Rajpal Yadav as Anthony
    Neena Kulkarni as Nirmala Nath
    Satish Shah as Principal J.J. Irani
    Delnaaz Paul as Jojo's Mom
    Nauheed Cyrusi as Tina (Special Appearance)
    Aashish Chaudhary as Rohan (Special Appearance)
    Achyut Potdar

Story

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 (Shahrukh 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. Soon 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 mom and then sees that the bowl in which he was having ice-cream has vanished. Later he goes down again past a sleeping Anjali to investigate. It is then that he sees the ghost of Kailash Nath (Amitabh Bachchan) and then they start arguing on whether Mr. Nath is a ghost or an angel(according to Banku). Banku nicknames him Bhootnath as Mr. Nath says that he is a bhoot(ghost) and also says that he is Nath(which is his last name).

Since the ghost of Kailash Nath does not want anybody to occupy his house, he tries different ways to scare Banku and his mother, but Banku considers him as angel and treats him like a friend. Soon, Mr. Nath is overpowered by Banku's innocent love, especially after a minor incident of Banku's fall from the stairs for which Mr. Nath is in fact responsible.

The two become friends and thoroughly enjoy the company of one another. It is at this point that Mr. Nath's son returns from the US and plans to sell off this bungalow. Angered, Mr. Nath scares the buyers but Anjali comes to know the existence of him. He then tells his story to Banku and Anjali how his son deserted him at the time of need and left for the US.

Later, Aditya and Anjali decide to perform the final rites of Mr. Nath to give him Moksha. It is performed by Banku and Mr.Nath bids an emotional farewell to Banku. By this time, Mr.Nath's son also comes to know his fault and apologizes.

In the end, Banku is sad that Bhoothnath is no more. However, bhoothnath returns and says that he is always there for him.