‘Bhoot Police’ movie review: Two ghost hunters address the family audience

Taking forward the Stree kind of storytelling, Bhoot Police comes across as a stress buster during the pandemic

In times when the OTT platforms are serving a lot of trash in the name of being realistic and visceral, here comes a horror-comedy that literally tells us to push logic into a corner and take a ride that is mostly amusing, mildly frightening. Mounted like a modern-day fable, the tale of two ghost hunters, addresses the family audience, a rarity these days. Taking forward the Stree kind of storytelling, it comes across as a stress buster during the pandemic. Usually such fare expects the audience to believe in the mumbo jumbo but director Pawan Kripalani, who has established himself as a kind of spook specialist, teams up with writers Devashish Makhija and Sumit Bakheja to create a universe where one of the two lead protagonists prides in selling superstition to the believers. It provides an opportunity to consistently mock at the genre even as they tell the story of a spirit on the prowl.