Mumbai, March 28: Even though Hum Tum Aur Ghost isn’t exactly a romantic comedy that leaves you in splits, it surely provides for a few happy moments and establishes one thing, that Arshad Warsi has whatever it takes to shoulder a film as its lead actor. After playing many roles including Circuit in Munnabhai and Babban in the more recent release Ishqiya, Warsi has proven his versatility time and again.
Arshad Warsi plays an alcohlic-insomniac fashion mag photographer who can see and hear ghosts in Hum Tum Aur Ghost. He is in love with the editor of his magazine, played by Dia Mirza. When he tells her about his connection with those from the other world, she dismisses it as a disrorder.
There is nothing earth-crackingly novel in the film. But Hum Tum Aur Ghost could have easily qualified as one of those typical been there seen that variety of hollywood films that don’t make for a bad watch after all. However, the film’s duration and length its prospects. Also, the story is not taut, and continues to shuttle from one aspect to another without any steadiness or uniformity.
Hum Tum Aur Ghost is definitely better than the earlier ghost films we have seen such as Bhootnath and Alladdin. The film atleast manages to provide some humours moments letting us laugh here and there. But the length of the film is its central flaw. Every time you wish, the movie gets over, the director throws in something or the other. There are times when hints of schizophrenia are thrown in and and you go, Ohh Not again, not another Karthik.
–PTI