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Akshay Kumar. Priyadarshan. Comedy.

What could go wrong?

Since it’s 2026, I am confident — a lot.

A couple of weeks ago, Bollywood released a movie called Bhoot Bangla, which had everything one could dream of. Horror comedy, Akshay Kumar, Priyadarshan, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani — it was like Bhool Bhulaiyaa had a sequel. A worthy one.

I wasn’t intending to watch it, because I’ll be honest, it’s Bollywood. Not to be racist or anything, but Bollywoodians are the single most creatively dead dumbfucks that exist today. A three-year-old toddler with a pencil can write better stories, and anybody that disagrees with me probably has the IQ of a dead SpongeBob.

My coworkers watched the movie. One of them loved it. She went on and on about how she kept laughing the entire time. The other hated it. According to hee, the movie had zero logic. Logically dead.

Personally, I believe that when it comes to comedy, we can all keep our brains in the fridge.

So today, I wanted my family to do something together and spend some time together, so I decided: let’s watch Bhoot Bangla on Netflix.

Now, that’s kind of dumb on my part.

If a movie is available on Netflix two weeks after its theatrical release — it’s not watchable.

Anyway, I started the movie with high expectations. I knew they were trying to do a Bhool Bhulaiyaa sequel. (I know Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 exists, but rule number two of watching movies: if it has Kartik Aaryan, it’s also unwatchable.)

Anyway, the story goes like this.

A family lives in London. Our main character, Akshay Kumar, stays with his sister, played by Mithila Palkar, and their father.

Mithila’s wedding preparations are in full swing. It’s a love marriage that their father doesn’t completely approve of, but he’s willing to compromise for his daughter’s happiness.

Akshay Kumar, the good-for-nothing son, is handling all the wedding preparations because their father is busy with work.

It is then revealed that Mithila is actually the heir to a palace in India worth billions. Akshay and Mithila decide they’ll host the wedding there.

So Akshay comes to India and discovers that the mansion — in fact, the entire village — is haunted.

Nobody can get married in this village because a creature called Vadhusur kidnaps and kills brides. A total of twelve brides have already fallen victim to it.

The mansion manager warns Akshay about the curse.

Akshay — who has apparently never watched a horror movie in his entire life — doesn’t believe him.

So the wedding prep begins.

A bunch of weird shit happens.

At one point Akshay dies and is saved by the heroine of the movie, Wamiqa Gabbi (hate her honestly. She would have been so good if people didn’t automatically compare her to Aishwarya. She looks nothing like Aishwarya and the comparison gives me the ick).

After the dead-Akshay incident, he starts seeing ghosts as normal people.

More weird shit happens.

Eventually, Akshay realizes the threat is real. So he tries cancelling the wedding and changing the venue.

But his sister is already there and isn’t okay with the change.

The father also arrives, and it is then revealed to Akshay that his father is actually not his father.

His father is actually a guy who looks exactly like Akshay’s real father and was trying to summon the Vadhusur.

Then we get a flashback.

Akshay’s mother, Tabu, liked Akshay’s fake father.

The feelings were mutual.

Unfortunately, Akshay’s real father liked her too.

Akshay’s grandfather had already initiated marriage talks between Tabu and the fake father. In response, the real father decided to summon a demon.

As one does.

The grandfather finds out and, in order to save his son, asks the fake father to leave.

The fake father leaves.

Tabu marries the real father.

The Vadhusur thing turns out to be a little too successful.

Tabu discovers her husband in monster form, panics, and runs away.

She eventually ends up living with the fake father.

The catch?

She’s pregnant.

Which is why the fake father adopts Akshay and raises him as his own.

Fast forward to the present.

Mithila is still hell-bent on getting married at the palace.

So the family decides to move the wedding to the afternoon because ghosts apparently don’t operate during daylight hours.

This news is not received well by the groom’s family’s pandit.

He throws a tantrum.

We have to move the wedding back to his chosen muhurat.

Because priorities.

The wedding happens.

One person is assigned generator duty because the lights absolutely cannot go off.

Rajpal Yadav gets possessed and goes to switch off the generator.

The wedding is completed.

The lights go off.

Now Akshay Kumar, despite having spent the entire movie learning how dangerous the situation is, takes Mithila to a room, hands her a light, and tells her to stay there alone. Man has never watched a horror movie. Won’t survive a day in the real world.

Anyway, she gets kidnapped.

Ghost Wamiqa helps Akshay find her.

Akshay fights the bad guys.

Everybody is saved.

It is then revealed that Wamiqa actually had a double role.

One living twin.

One dead twin.

The dead twin was the twelfth bride who had been killed.

Now, storyline-wise, they tried.

They really did.

As I was typing this review, I could actually see the potential.

But the execution?

Shit.

Horrible.

They reused iconic dialogues from iconic movies, made a lot of iconic references, and basically hoped nostalgia would do the heavy lifting.

It was a very bad attempt at creating a Bhool Bhulaiyaa × Munjya baby.

And I’m fairly certain there aren’t many people on this planet willing to watch it twice.

Overall: 4/10.

Good story.

Excellent casting.

Great potential.

Horrible execution.

Mediocre songs.

I’d say Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 was better than this.

And mind you — Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 was horrible.