Review : Dhoom 2

If you are the one who like movies like Dhoom 2, then this movie is about you”

In India, we have a film industry which is much disorganized in the front end. While the backend functions such as editing, animation, sound mixing etc are usually serviced by corporate setups deriving big budgetary benefits, the most fundamental aspects of narration has taken a back step. This fundamental function is called a ?script?.

Dhoom 2, just like thousands of slick flicks lacks ah hem.. a story. There is no story, full stop.

Bollywood as we call it pumps money into bad directors. Good directors either choose intense plots which no one wants to watch or they make films only for film festivals. While the not so good directors make absolute rubbish like Dhoom 2 (even 1) and other garbage like Dus etc.

Dhoom 2 feels like a 150 min long advertisement with fantastic cinematography and no plot or for that matter even acting. What you are served is meaningless visuals of taking humans with little clothes on. Hrithik Roshan does look stunning in some poses and he is the only saving grace in this candy floss which defies every single logic which even a 10 year old can find a flaw.? The director has tried to introduce each character in a stylized format. However, except for Hrithik all others look like buffoons, only to be complemented with a misplaced song to jump as if they are paid to do only that.

Enter Ms Aishwarya (old) Rai. This lady should retire. I am surprised how she manages to deliver class acts for directors like Rajeev Menon and Mani Ratnam, while mainstream Hindi cinema folks use her for her face, which by the way has started to show the sings of aging.

The romance track between Hrithik and Aishwarya (old) rai feels like watching a video game. The lady is plastic and Hrithik hardly makes an impression because the director has used him as a Provouge model whos only job is to walk in slow motion while the Dhoom sound track plays in the background. He steals expensive artifacts in a world where only fools live. Foolish enough not to notice the obvious events happening under their feet.? Just when such a colossal errors are being stuffed down your throat a stupid song explodes on your face, making you wonder if you are being taken for a ride.

Uday is a joker by birth. He does not act; he is a natural dumb guy. Who else am I missing?

Abhishek Bachchan has failed to create an impression and the full blame goes to the director. The man can act; the director somehow forgot to make him do so because he was busy making Bipasha act. And then you have all these stupid songs thrown in at random. Swap a song from its current timeline to a different timeline and there would be no change in the story. Wait,this is complicated, because there is no story in the first place remember!

In more ways than one, Dhoom 2 is a bad film. I am quite sure that this film will do good business because the bulk of our domestic audiences leave their brains in their refrigerators before they head for the movie theatre.

Now there is a talk of Dhoom 3!

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