Film: Hum Tum Aur Ghost

Cast: Arshad Warsi, Dia Mirza, Directed by: Kabeer Kaushik, Duration: 125 mins, Rating: * *
Director Kabeer Kaushik’s debut Seher about the UP mafia was quite a remarkable film and the follow up, Chamku tackled the issue of naxalism.

Hum Tum Aur Ghost is unfortunately not close to the above mentioned - neither the story nor the execution. While it is not all that bad a film it surely suffers from identity crisis.  There is romance, drama and elements of a thriller. In fact, it has too much of everything. The story credited to Arshad Warsi had the potential but eventually is frittered away.
Armaan (Arshad Warsi) is a photographer with a serious drinking problem and that’s not all. He can also see ghosts and talk to them or rather they keep bothering him from time to time. His girlfriend the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine doesn’t quite know about his talent of talking to the dead. She thinks he is having a fling on the side.
A ghost (Boman Irani) virtually forces Armaan to help him get some money from the bank so that he can help his widowed wife. Once a little boy (dead one) even pops up out of the blue asking the ghost communicator to talk to his father. The scene even shifts to Goa where Armaan comes to help a lady ghost find her son.
While the idea was good the screenplay is not very convincing. Neither the ghosts nor the living persons make much of an impact and the spirit is clearly missing. It is also one of those films which are shot in a foreign location for no particular reason.
There is nothing much to harp about the cast. The same can be said about the movie as well.