Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship
2020 film directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh
Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship (transl. Ghost) is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language horror thriller film written and directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh and jointly produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar, Apoorva Mehta, and Shashank Khaitan. The film features Vicky Kaushal in the lead role and is the first film of what was a planned horror film franchise.
According to Singh, who was a former assistant director to Khaitan, and Johar, Bhoot : Part One - The Haunted Ship is based on a true incident that took place in Mumbai, the famous MV Wisdom in 2011 and tells the story of an officer who has to move an abandoned but haunted ship lying static on Juhu Beach. Principal photography began in December 2018 and was wrap in September 2019.
Set for an initial release on 15 November 2019, the film was postponed and released theatrically in India on 21 February 2020. It eventually received negative reviews and was a commercial failure.
Plot
Meera's third birthday is celebrated on the Sea-Bird by the ship's merchant crew. Drawn away from the party by a noise, Meera is attacked by a ghost and screams. Years later, shipping officer Prithvi Maurya (Vicky Kaushal), with the help of his friend and colleague Riaz, elopes with his pregnant girlfriend Sapna. Prithvi foils a human trafficking operation, but Riaz warns him against such dangerous adventures.
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