The characters established, the films jumps 20 years into the future. Fate has forever sentenced her to play second fiddle to Bulbbul in the household, something that Binodini, the ‘chhoti bahu’, is very bothered by. The Thakur has a twin, Mahendra, who is developmentally challenged and is married to a conniving woman named Binodini.
In a deft move it is revealed that her husband isn’t the boy Satya, with whom she’s struck a quick friendship, but rather Satya’s sinister-looking elder brother Indranil, the Thakur, played by Rahul Bose. In 1881, Bulbbul, a precocious girl with an appetite for scary stories is married into a wealthy ‘zamindar’ family. So for Bulbbul to whole-heartedly embrace its Gothic horror origins - it’s Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal by way of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak - is rather refreshing. Invariably, horror in India is combined with other genres such as musical or romance - ghosts, you see, mustn’t get in the way of the films’ box office potential.
BULB BOY WALKTHROUGH NO COMMENTARY MOVIE
But while the dignified ‘haveli’ in Shoojit Sircar’s movie took on a life of its own, the one in Bulbbul, like the film itself, can’t help but feel artificial.Īs an industry, Bollywood has been famously incapable of producing good horror cinema, with the odd exceptions, of course. Over-directed but underwritten, Bulbbul is a visually striking film that is let down by a weak script.įrom debutante director Anvita Dutt (whose track record as dialogue writer includes the runaway hit Queen but also Shaandaar, Kambakkht Ishq and Housefull), Netflix’s Bulbbul is the second streaming film this month, after Amazon’s Gulabo Sitabo, that is set inside a foreboding mansion. Cast - Tripti Dimri, Rahul Bose, Avinash Tiwary, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Paoli Dam Bulbbul movie review: Tripti Dimri in a still from the new Netflix film.
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