Hum Tum Aur Ghost Movie Review

Hum Tum Aur Ghost (Hindi)

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3.5/10
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2.5/10
Release Date:
March 26, 2010

In the world of Armaan and Gehna, life is truly beautiful, yet it's like walking on a tightrope. For Armaan, the fashion photographer, debonair, charmer to the core and loved by all around him life only gets better when he dates Gehna, a High profile fashion magazine editor. Life is picture perfect a doting girlfriend, a job where his expertise with the camera makes him the most wanted photographer in the London fashionista!

Armaan has learnt that his chronic insomnia is however not a function of any sleeping disorder. The truth is that he hears voices; voices that torture him; voices that are disturbing him. More importantly voices that nobody else can hear! Life is less than picture perfect right now!

While his friends sympathize with his problems, his girlfriend Gehna is irritated with his weird behavior. Add to that her father constantly berates him for his fondness for the bottle. No one seems to understand his predicament. What puzzles everyone is the fact that he talks to himself… or rather, he talks to people, who no one can see, simply because they don't live.

Soon, Armaan becomes aware of his special ability to connect with the souls that haven't crossed over. Equipped with a will to fulfill the wishes of these spirits who hound him, Armaan sets out on a mission to help out three souls a child, Ali, an old man, Mr. Kapoor and a young woman, Carol.

In this ensuing journey that follows Armaan discovers the lives of his three special companions and ends up frustrating Gehna. Yet, Armaan is on a journey where he discovers a lot about his own self, his own life for the first time.

In the world of Armaan and Gehna, life is truly beautiful, yet it's like walking on a tightrope. For Armaan, the fashion... Show More

Kaushik wants to milk the material for laughs, and he also wants to, Ghost-like, souse us in schmaltz – both ends elude him by a comfortable margin

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The New Indian Express

Love cannot conquer this muddled script, which veers between rom-com, drama and high emotion, in the most meandering way possible

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NDTV

Ultimately the film is predictable and tiring because it's an interesting idea that's been stretched way beyond its potential

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IBN

The setting is the ever abused, phony, white Europe. Somehow the conflicts within this fake coolness come across as neither firm nor funny. At best you sense a Shah Rukh Khan hangover in Warsi’s look and general presence

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Hindustan Times

The pow-wows between the ghosts and the sole human who can see them range from the funny and the lachrymose, but the former are few and far. The interactions between the humans are equally contrived

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Indian Express

Arshad Warsi’s debut as a writer is so ‘lifeless’ in Hum Tum aur Ghost that even his ‘spirited’ performance isn’t able to save the dead slow film from dying a slow death

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IndiaTimes

Hum Tum Aur Ghost has an innovative story but fails to keep you interested.

IBN

The premise of the film has its heart in the right place. But the script doesn't evolve from one scene to the other

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Rediff

All we are left with are a few sequences of fun, followed by long-drawn drama

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Times of India