Moving into a new house, a family witnesses an unfriendly ghost who wants to drive them away from the house. However, he befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.
Banku, his mother, Anjali Sharma and father move in to their new house -- the Nath villa, unaware of the fact that the house is inhabited by a ghost. It is learnt the ghost is not too happy with his new housemates. But what the ghost is not prepared for is his unlikely friendship with Banku. Now Banku must uncover the reason why his ghostly friend is stuck and help him to attain salvation.—gavin ([email protected])
Aditya is an Engineer on a cruise line, and lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Anjali, and a school-going son, Aman. They decide to re-locate to Goa and rent a bungalow, 'Nath Villa', that was built in 1964. They are made aware that the bungalow is haunted, but they disregard this. While Aditya returns to work, Aman is enrolled in St. Francis High School, and Anjali hires a drunken thief, Anthony, as a helper to clean the house. Shortly thereafter Aman starts getting in trouble in school, and is reprimanded by Principal J.J. Irani. To make matters worse, he also starts making up stories of a new friend 'Bhoothnath'. Anjali disregards this, but during a stage performance, a local resident tells her that Aman is mimicking the former owner of Nath Villa. Anjali will soon find out that indeed the bungalow is haunted by it's former owner - Kailash Nath - who has taken a morbid liking to Aman, and will not permit them to vacate the house under any circumstance.—rAjOo ([email protected])
One windy night, a young couple sneaks into the Nath Villa, a huge bungalow in Goa, only to discover that a ghost haunts the house, causing them to flee.
The story focuses on Aman Sharma / Banku (Aman Siddiqui), who has recently shifted into an old bungalow in Goa, with his parents, Aditya (Shah Rukh Khan) and Anjali (Juhi Chawla). His father Aditya is an engineer on a cruise line, and therefore moves with his cruise. They are made aware that the bungalow is haunted, but they disregard this. Banku is enrolled in St. Francis High School. Banku is a bit of a terror in his school & uses his tricks to subdue his rivals in class.The next day Aditya bids them a brief farewell due to work commitments and Banku attends his first day at school and meets Jojo (Devendra). On his first day at school, Jojo grows jealous of Banku causing him to play a prank on Jojo and Jojo later tricks Banku into playing a prank on the school principal J.J. Irani (Satish Shah), causing him to be caught. After sometime, Jojo and Banku Befriend each other.
Anjali hires a kindhearted and comedic drunken thief, Anthony (Rajpal Yadav), as a servant to clean the house. One night, Banku goes down to the living room to have some ice-cream when he sees a shadow on the wall. Frightened, he calls out to his mother, before seeing that the bowl in which he was having ice-cream has vanished.
Later, Banku returns and passes a sleeping Anjali to investigate. He then sees the ghost of Kailash Nath (Amitabh Bachchan) and then they start arguing on whether Kailash is a ghost or an angel (according to Banku, who constantly persists that Nath is an angel rather than a ghost). Banku nicknames him Bhootnath as Kailash says that he is a Bhoot (ghost) and also says that "Nath" is his last name.
Since the ghost of Kailash does not want anybody to occupy his house, he tries different ways to scare Banku and his mother, but Banku considers him as an angel and treats him like a friend. Things become comical when Banku displays no fear of him despite various attempts by Bhoothnath to scare him off and drive him out of the house. Instead the latter keeps getting played on by the kid and it becomes a playful fight between the two. Anjali too gets confused at first.
One day, Bhoothnath tries to scare Banku again while he is on the edge of the stairs, but it instead results in startling him and causing him to fall down and sustain a head injury, much to his shock. Anjali rushes him to the hospital and Bhoothnath follows. Banku is saved, relieving both. A tearful Bhoothnath apologizes to Banku.
The two become friends and thoroughly enjoy the company of one another. One day, Banku takes Bhoothnath with him to school and Bhoothnath invisibly plays pranks on the school principal, making everyone laugh and causing the principal to be furious.Anjali hears of the incidents at school and slaps Banku, thinking that he is acting weird, ever since he met Bhoothnath and that Anjali cannot see Bhoothnath. Banku distances himself angrily from his mother and Bhoothnath, but they later reconcile.
Two days later, Banku defeats Jojo in the annual sports meet and wins a prize. After the sports meet, Jojo, being jealous of Banku winning the prize, tries to trap Banku by throwing him into the well but unfortunately falls for it, causing him to be confronted by Banku himself who later forgives Jojo and helps Jojo to come out of the well.
Couple of days later, Banku and Jojo participate in the fancy dress competition and act from the scene of Banku's first encounter with Bhoothnath, surprising Bhoothnath and confusing Anjali.
It is at this point that Bhoothnath's son Vijay returns from the United States and plans to sell off the bungalow. This angers Bhoothnath as he does not want his home to be demolished and frightens the buyers. Banku tries to calm him down and requests him to appear before his scared mother. He does so, and reveals his story in a flashback.
He then tells his story to Banku and Anjali about how his son deserted him at a time of need for him, along with the story of his death. His full name is Kailash Nath, who lived a happy life with his wife Nirmala (Neena Kulkarni) and son Vijay (Priyanshu Chatterjee), daughter in law Shaana (Shaana Diya) & grandson Vibhu (Shrey Bawa). Vijay took his family to USA for his career and never returned.
Nirmala died with a yearning to meet her son, but Vijay came only at her funeral. Kailash was disappointed when Vijay tried to sell off the house. He turned down the buyers, angering Vijay's wife. Vijay requested his father to move with them to America, saying that nothing is left for them in the house but Kailash, who was (and still is) emotionally attached to the house, declined the offer. Kailash pleaded with Vijay, but he did not listen. The next day, Vijay left with his family to the airport all the while Kailash desperately trying to convince him not to leave but he did not listen. While on the way to follow him out of the house, Kailash tripped down the stairs. Unaware that he has just died, Kailash's ghost rose and he ran after Vijay to stop him but Vijay could not see or hear him as he was invisible and he left. Devastated, he walked back inside the house to see his own lifeless body lying on the bottom of the stairs. Seeing his body, he realizes that he is now a ghost.
Aditya, returning from his work after hearing of the story, believes in Bhoothnath's existence after Banku points at a moving chair. He and Anjali decide to perform Bhoothnath's final rites to give him salvation. But Banku is only told that they are "celebrating his birthday" (as the kid is too young to understand the meaning of the ceremony and funeral).
Aditya meets Vijay and confronts him. Guilt-ridden, Vijay arrives during the ceremony and apologizes for his mistakes and tells Aditya and Anjali that they can live permanently in the house. Bhoothnath forgives his son and immediately ascends to heaven, having attained peace. Banku, seeing a tearful Bhoothnath disappear, is distraught.
The next day he is leaving for school, he is devastated and heartbroken and is missing the ghost. After some time, Bhoothnath appears again, and the two are happily reunited again. He requests Banku and the viewers to hide it. The movie ends with a "To be continued" screen, setting the stage for a sequel.
