Phone Bhoot
   
             

Director: Gurmmeet Singh
Year:  2022
Music: Various
Duration: 136 minutes
Rating: 6.5

About five minutes into this film, I began wondering why I was here. This clearly was not going to be a horror film (bhoot = ghost) but instead a goofy as hell supernatural comedy starring two young adults who reminded me of Kid 'n Play if you recall them. Two lame brained slackers obsessed with horror films and total losers. But they can see ghosts. But I stuck with it for the reason I came in the first place. Katrina Kaif. She is one of my favorite modern day Bollywood actresses in such films as Bang Bang, the two Tiger films, Singh is Kiing and Jagga Jasoos. Sexy and alluring with an ability to do comedy. Of course, here she is a ghost. But a sexy one.



Gullu (Ishaan Khattar) and Major (Siddhant Chaturvedi) are two dimwitted horny friends who live together in a house with the financial help of their fathers. No jobs and no money, they put on a horror dance that brings in a lot of customers. All ghosts. They are not clever enough to realize this and think Ragini (Katrina) is hot and hot for them. She isn't. But she needs their help at a future date she tells them. After she convinces them that she is a ghost - not that this lessens their lust for her - she convinces them to go into business as Ghost Busters. Yup. Ghost Busters.



With her help they are able to get ghosts out of possessed bodies by understanding their pain and make some money - but an evil sorcerer (veteran actor Jackie Shroff) and his demon minions want to kill them. For taking business away from them! It gets tiresome fairly quickly but every time there is too much of the twosome Katrina shows up. A few laughs and a lot of goofball humor but the production quality is excellent. There are a few nods to the Ramsay Brothers as well. Directed by Gurmmeet Singh and comes in at a reasonable 136 minutes.