Gang of Ghosts

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09/12/2019 'Gang of Ghosts' is a bad, really bad musical with crass music and crass style. The story-telling is plainly zero effective, and if you've watched the marvelous, near-perfect 'Bhooter Bhobishyat', you'll hate it. Its surely the worst Hindi film of the year. At crisp 92 minutes, the film offers no fun. See more 05/11/2014 it is a nice movie with a really unexpected ending although looking at the trailer it isnt as funny and thrilling as expected. Yet not a bad movie See more 04/16/2014 Gang of Ghosts is a paranormal comedy. It is the remake of super hit Bengali film 'Bhooter Bhabhishyat'. The movie begins with the site visit of a filmmaker Aditya (Parambrata Chatterjee) to a haunted mansion. He is excited to visualize the shots at the location. When he stays back at night in the mansion, Raju - a struggling writer (Sharmaan Joshi) comes to meet him to sell his script. Rest of the story is basically the script narrated by Sharmaan Joshi. The concept definitely seems to be unique in the beginning since it is a story of 'good' ghosts of different periods, professions who live together in Royale Mansion. But the story drags, since too many characters are introduced. Let me try to list down a few of them. Head of the Ghosts' family is Gendamal (played by Anupam Kher) who actually interviews along with an Englishman's ghost Mr. Ramsay (J. Brandon Hill) various ghosts before giving them shelter in the mansion. And that becomes the gang of ghosts: Actress Manoranjana Kumari (Mahie Gill), Musician turned drug addict (Vijay Verma), Brigadier (Yashpal Sharma), a refugee from East Bengal, now Bangladesh (Saurabh Shukla), a poor driver Atmaram (Asrani) killed by a rich man's vehicle while sleeping in the pavement, a Shef from Mughal Empire (Rajpal Yadav), A rich man's lovelorn daughter (Meera Chopra) committing suicide ... Their dream Royale Mansion stay is at stake now since a builder (Rajesh Khattar) wants to build mall there and the movie shows the efforts taken by the gang of ghosts to save their house. Jackie Shroff as a don has a guest appearance. Every ghost has his / her own story addressing various social / personal issues. But it made me bewildered that what exactly Director (Satish Kaushik) and the Story Writers (Satish Kaushik and Rajesh Chawla) want to convey. Lot of matters viz. land acquisition, mill workers' strike, demolition of existing properties for high-rise building, multiplexes and malls, reckless driving, drug addiction, refugees' struggle, corrupt politicians, gangsters, gang rape, ghost writing, etc. are shown. The plot turns out to be chaotic due to this non-clarity. The frames with Sharmaan Joshi and Parambrata Chatterjee are refreshing. The concept of using the social networking site spookbook.com by the ghosts raises laughter. All other actors have done justice to their characters in the limited frames given to them. Costumes for all the characters are styled as per their roles /the period which they represented. Music though intelligently composed to justify the KL Sehgal period, is completely misfit and not at all chartbusters. Gang of Ghosts' Bhootiyapanti and their satire got lost due to meekly designed plot. See more 03/21/2014 A meek tale, the story begins with an old building Royal Mansion being rented for film shoots and eyed by land sharks who want to bring it down and come up with condominium. Once, a heroine faints sighting a ghost. A filmmaker (parambrata) decides to check that place out and he gets to hear a spooky tale from an aspiring writer (sharman) regarding that mansion. Whether it is just a cooked up tale or there is something to it forms the rest. The director has come up with a comedy storyline and while the presentation was nice, the narrative was disappointing. The dialogues were good at places. The script was alright but the screenplay was weak. The background score was good but songs were bad. Cinematography was the saving grace. Editing was required during the second half. Costumes were suiting the characters while the art department was excellent. Sharman Joshi was natural and he did well, Mahie Gill looks seductive and acted nicely. Anupam Kher was the best among the lot. Meera Chopra was mediocre. Saurabh Shukla was superb. Parambrata was apt. Others didnâ??t get much scope. The film happens to be the remake of the Bengali hit â??Bhooter Bhobishyotâ?? and though the original was quite entertaining, the remake is not so. Apparently, the film takes its own time to pick up and by that time the first half is over. The second half had few promising moments but the songs and repetitive comedy spoiled the mood. Of course, the last fifteen to twenty minutes was quite interesting but the momentum is lost by then. Overall, this is a film which had good potential but was not executed well. A big letdown by Satish Kaushik 1.75/5* See more Read all reviews

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