The original Manichitrathazu was a thriller with some comedy. It's remake Bhool Bhulaiyaa, although a scene to scene copy of the original, but seems more like a comedy with with a psychological twist at the end. Probably because Priyadarshan is it's director. Except for the starting, everything is a plain copy of Manichitrathazu.
In original, we never see Shobana's face in the scenes when she was at Nagavalli's room. But in Bhool Bhulaiya, the camera shows Vidya's face many times in the same scene. The suspense factor is not kept by Priyadarshan here. Also, the characters of Shridevi in manichitrathazu was so well written but here, the character of Radha has no role in it and even she had, Amisha patel killed it with his acting.
Everyone's acting was from poor to okayish. Shiney Ahuja was the biggest dissapointment. He was little too loud every time. Rajpal Yadav and Paresh Rawal had no role in this, complete waste of talent. And why was Ameesha Patel even there?
There was also an aspect at which this one was better than the original. It was that it doesn't contain the paranormal stuff at the starting like Manichitrathazu. Thus, the story makes more sense.
But overall, it's an average flick.
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