And so, tailed by a Punjabi Inspector Clouseau played by Jaaved Jaaferi and burdened by daddy issues, Chiraunji and Vibhooti take the lady up on her offer and arrive at her supposedly haunted Dharamshala tea plantation. He senses a money-making opportunity when a woman named Maya approaches them at some sort of 'tantric' fair and hires them to solve a supernatural mystery at her hometown in the mountains. Vibhooti describes his brother as the ‘bhooton ka antenna’ and himself as the ‘bhooton ka x-ray’. The brothers' ideological clashes make for engaging interpersonal conflict, and Kirpalani even gives them a watered-down version of that famous Ricky Gervais-Stephen Colbert atheism argument at one point early on. Business, therefore, is booming.īut while Chiraunji is a firm believer in the supernatural, armed as he perpetually is with his father's ghost-hunting manual, Vibhooti is the skeptic he approaches every new case with the aim to debunk the claims. Fortunately for them, they were born in a society whose very survival hinges on superstitions. The mismatched duo – Vibhooti is a rapscallion and Chiraunji is the sort of person who'd have carried the burden of family expectations in his youth – are in the ‘tantric' business. There is even a ‘pardafash’ moment midway through, but I won't get into that. Not only do the brothers Chiraunji and Vibhooti drive around in a Mystery Machine-esque van, they soon form a sort-of ‘gang’ with sisters Maya and Kanika (Yami Gautam and Jacqueline Fernandez).
Director Pavan Kirpalani borrows liberally from Evil Dead, Ghostbusters, Zombieland and The Exorcist, but perhaps the biggest inspiration – both tonally and intellectually – is Scooby Doo.
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