Bhoothnath Devanagari translation Lord of Ghosts is a 2008 Bollywood supernatural comedy film directed by Vivek Sharma, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Aman Siddiqui, Priyanshu Chatterjee and Rajpal Yadav in lead roles and features Shah Rukh Khan in a supporting role. The film is based on a true story of a boy in Goa and an angel. The film is an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde short story The Canterville Ghost. A sequel titled Bhoothnath Returns was released onApril 2014.
The story focuses on Aman Sharma a.k.a. Banku Aman Siddiqui, who has recently shifted into an old bungalow in Goa, with his parents, Aditya Shah Rukh Khan and Anjali Juhi Chawla. His father Aditya is an engineer on a cruise line, and therefore moves with his cruise. They are made aware that the bungalow is haunted, but they disregard this. Banku is enrolled in St. Francis High School, and Anjali hires a kindhearted and comedic drunken thief, Anthony Rajpal Yadav, as a servant to clean the house. One night, Banku goes down to the living room to have some icecream when he sees a shadow on the wall. Frightened, he calls out to his mother, before seeing that the bowl in which he was having icecream has vanished. Later, Banku returns and passes a sleeping Anjali to investigate. He then sees the ghost of Kailash Nath Amitabh Bachchan and then they start arguing on whether Kailash is a ghost or an angel according to Banku, who constantly persists that Nath is an angel rather than a ghost. Banku nicknames him Bhootnath as Kailash says that he is a bhooth ghost and also says that Nath is his last name.Since the ghost of Kailash does not want anybody to occupy his house, he tries different ways to scare Banku and his mother, but Banku considers him as an angel and treats him like a friend. Soon, Bhoothnath accepts by Bankus innocent love after a minor incident, as Banku fell from the stairs for which Bhoothnath is responsible for. ........
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