Name: Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
Director: Anees Bazmee
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2024-11-01
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Vidya Balan, Madhuri Dixit, Tripti Dimri, Vijay Raaz

Synopsis

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3

In 1824, a woman is shown dancing Kathak in the Raktghat palace at night, only to be caught by the king and his bodyguards. The king orders that the Kathak dancer be burnt alive, and the guards obey king orders. Sometime later, the spirit of the dancer returns to haunt the killers. The spirit killed both the man who burnt her and the king as well. The bodyguards are killed, with the king being set ablaze in his bed by the spirit. 200 years later, in 2024, Ruhaan, a conman pretending to be a ghostbuster under the pseudonym “Rooh Baba,” along with his accomplice Tillu, cheat people in Kolkata for a living. One day, they get a call from a person referring to himself as the “King” of Raktghat, who wants to oust the ghost of his niece “Meera,” said to be haunting his house. While Ruhaan attempts to exorcise Meera's spirit, he inadvertently admits that he is a fraud, which her uncle records on his phone. All of this turns out to be a hoax set up by Meera and her uncle to catch Ruhaan and bring him to their native place, Raktghat—an erstwhile princely state in West Bengal. Meera promises to pay Ruhaan a sum of ₹1 crore if he helps them reclaim their palace, which is supposedly haunted by the spirit of Manjulika. With no option left, Ruhaan follows the duo to Raktghat, where he finds a broke royal family struggling to meet their daily needs. The royal family now lives in a small house outside the haunted palace.

Director: Anees Bazmee
Release: 1 Nov 2024
Run time: 158 min
Language: Hindi

Cast & crew

Kartik Aaryan Cast

Vidya Balan Cast

Madhuri Dixit Cast

Tripti Dimri Cast VI Vijay Raaz Cast

Rajpal Yadav Cast

Sanjay Mishra Cast

Ashwini Kalsekar Cast RA Rajesh Sharma Cast

Anees Bazmee Director

Bhushan Kumar Producer

Krishan Kumar Producer SA Sandeep Shirodkar Composer

Reviews

Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.

Critics' consensus

Mixed

Across 3 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, reception is mixed.

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Reception Order

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Bollywood Hungama

Aakash Kaushik's story is impressive as it’s not cliched and has a lot of interesting plot points. Aakash Kaushik's screenplay is top-notch. The writing keeps viewers intrigued and invested in the proceedings. Aakash Kaushik's dialogues are witty and funny in equal doses. Anees Bazmee's direction is splendid. He proved with BHOOL BHULAIYAA 2 [2022] that he knows how to ace the horror comedy genre and he confirms this aspect in BHOOL BHULAIYAA 3. The scare element works big time and at the same time, he has made sure that the goings-on aren’t too scary and that it’s suitable for the family audience. He also keeps the proceedings light despite the presence of an evil ghost.

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The Indian Express Shubhra Gupta

But this third-go-round suffers from the same things that the previous one did: stereotypes instead of characters, forced humour which refuses to land, and tasteless lines bordering on the risible. The first hour and more is wasted in giving us the lay of the land, in which Aaryan and Dimri get to make eyes at each other, interspersed by cartoons masquerading as characters showing up as and when.

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Rediff Sukanya Verma

For a franchise that's build itself around a catchy ear worm and a ghost who likes to introduce themselves in ways that's more Bong than Bond, Bhool Bhulaiyaa preserves its 'silly scary movie that knows it is a silly scary movie' tone for a good measure only to pleasantly surprise with its sympathetic take on transgender identity.

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