Kaal

Kaal is a horror movie produced by Shah Rukh Khan under his Red Chillies banner. John Abraham, Ajay Devgan, Esha Deol, Lara Dutta and Vivek Oberoi are the lead crew in this movie. The movie mostly runs in a forest. Story revolves around mysterious murders.



Krish Thaapar (John Abraham) and Riya (Esha Deol) enters into Orbit National Park which is a small forest with many animals. After entering into this forest they join with a students batch who came on a trip and entered into that forest by mistake. By morning Krish finds most them are dead.
He meets Kali Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan), he suggests Krish to leave the forest. Krish finds the murders in the forest are because of Kali and that he is not a human being.



Kajol and Shahid Kapoor had to act in this movie but they refused this offer. Salim-Sulaiman gave a good background score. Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora Khan featured in an item number.

Paheli

Shah Rukh Khan featured as a ghost in Paheli. Most of the movie revolves around a ghost but instead of scaring scenes director took a love story between that ghost and a married girl. Shah Rukh's wife Gauri Khan produced this movie on their Red Chillies Entertainment. Amol Parekar was the director for this movie.




A jealous girl Lachchachi (Rani Mukherji) marries a rich person Bhanwarlal (Anupam Kher)'s son Kishen (Shah Rukh Khan). He dreams that she will be happy for the rest of life.


But her husband leaves her and their home on a business trip for five years. After he leaves the home a ghost enters into that house with Kishen's shape and voice. He reveals about his true identity after some days. But Lachachi accepts the ghost because of it's love.




Real Kishen returns back before the five years. He is shocked after knowing that his wife is pregnant because of a ghost. He consults shepherd (Amitabh Bachchan). Shepherd imprisons the ghost. But that ghost escapes from the bottle and occupies Kishen's body. He spends a happy life with Lachachi.




Juhi Chawla and Sunil Shetty also featured in this movie for some scenes. It was screened at the Zimbabwe International film festival, Harare. And also screened in Sundance Film festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Naseeruddin Shah gave voice over for this film. M.M Kreem aka M.M. Keeravani gave music. Beautiful locations in Rajasthan like Jaipur and Jaisalmeer gave different look and feel.

Boothnath

Vivek Sharma after working in many film departments, made his debut as a director with Boothnath.


Amitabh for the first time played a ghost character. Unlike other ghost movies director made this film in different way. The relation between a ghost and a child is the original story line director wrote a tight screenplay for this line.


Aditya Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan) a successful engineer shifts from Mumbai to Goa with his wife Anjali (Juhi Chawla) and school going son Aman (Aman Siddique). They stay in a bungalow. They don't know any thing about the bungalow.


bungalow owner Kailashnath (Amitabh Bachchan) who died years back doesn't like people staying in that bungalow. He plans to scare the family members. And starts his plan with Aman.


But Aman thinks he is an angel. Khailash Naath likes Aman's innocence and starts a friendship. Every day he explains to his friends and teachers about Boothnath aka ghost Khailash Naath.


Principal of the school Irani (Sathish Shah) complains to Anjali about Aman's strange behavior. Anjali finds out about Bhoothnath and forces her husband to leave the bungalow. Boothnath now is not ready to agree to this as he wants Aman friendship.


Amitabh as Boothnath did a great job especially in the funny scenes. Director Vivek Sharma impressed the audience by touching on a new concept.


Shah Rukh Khan played an almost guest role and Juhi Chawla is also good. Aman is the real hero of this film. Vishnu Roy caught some beautiful Goa locations onto his camera. Music from Saleem Merchant, Suleman Merchant, Vishal and Shekar is okay.