I am back!!! the response of my last couple of reviews were encouraging. Well encouraging enough to motivate me to try hand at writing one more review. A review for Dhoom-2. Well le me make one thing clear. This is not the greatest film you would see and nor that I liked the film very much and hence thought of writing a review...Then why did I write the review?? Hmm well this film is sort of "Maggie".. I mean. Its different. This is the sort of an 'action-adventure-govinda' type of film. Govinda types meaning; what do you do when you go to watch a govinda film. you set aside your brain for some time, and just get ready to laugh. You do not worry about, what is happening, why and how.. Well you would have to do something similar with Dhoom 2. Just that you get ready to 'be thrilled'. Let me start with the casting. The casting looks good. 5 main characters and they are the ones you would see all movie through.. Not much of supporting cast her.. Well if you have such a strong main cast, why would you need a supporting cast.. this is not a movie which has half a dozen bahus and half a dozen saas having 2 dozen sahalis each...Anyway lets get back to Dhoom2.. The cast includes Hritik, Ashie, Abhishek, Bipasha and then there is the yashraj local variable.. I mean local boy to Yashraj production - Uday Chopra. Casting really looks good.
Action which is the scoring point of the film looks safe in hands of Allan Amin. The man who gave us cool stunts in DUS. editing has been good and thus the film is pretty fast paced. Dialogues are not so great, but you have some good one-liners. Well with such beautiful people in the film, one cares a damn about they are saying.. ;) Lot of money has gone into making this movie. You can see that. But one point which seem to be not up to the mark was the attention to detail. Well, the director should have more appreciative of the fact that getting such a cast is tough. So when he has got such a cast, more attention should have been paid to detailing of the film. The film at places look raw and lacks polish. Lets take a look at the performances. let start with the local boy. Uday Chopra. Well Uday has improved a lot is you compare him to his first film - Mohabatain. The "be-funny" department is with him. A tough job to handle..and guess what he does manage to make you laugh sometimes.. Thats a huge improvement to audience felling "get this guy out of our sight" in his first film to "he IS funny sometimes" in Dhoom2. I certainly think by the time Dhoom10 gets released we would be laughing at all his jokes.. Hmmm would there be so many sequels.. Well if Yashraj productions want to see Uday on screen they have to keep spinning the dhoom wheel...Poor fellow .. no one takes him in their movies.he is one more case of 'Body not matching the voice' syndrome. Well if you see that is true even for Amitabh.. but Amitabh's case is just the opposite as Uday's case... Amitabh's case looks acceptable. well not quite acceptable. but it seems great.. just like Sukudu pehlwaan lifting 500 KG snatch looks goods while Dara singh tested positive for performance improving drugs fails to lift 50kg, cuts a sorry figure.. Hmm was the example too far-fetched.. anyway, I think you got the point...We do know one more case of this dangerous 'Body not matching voice' syndrome. Remember Deepak Malhotra .. from Lamhe.. The first words he uttered were "Pallo" and i think those were his last words in recorded bollywood history..till date..Ok moving forward we have Bips. No oscar winning performance, this. Her part did not require any high intensity acting. Anyway I do not think people who went to see the movie, even cared to listen what she said..
They were attentive but they cared a damn about the audio... ;) Bips plays a cop who has a sister (who looks amazingly like her... so guess who is her sister...Bips again... sahi jawaab..) in Brazil.. Bips, Beach and Brazil.. Now what more can one ask for!!! ultra hotio, enjoymento, ronaldo, romario.. superbo!!!! Now something about my gaonwali.. Ashie is good.. "ya right".. Well no one could have fit the role as good as her.. The role required to have someone with a great body, can share the screen with equal poise with Hritik and also look graceful.. Now do we have anyone with all these characteristics today??? Shilpa!!! yes but Ashie adds that extra bit to glamour...And she has reduced a LOT (yes, a 'lot' in bold, Italics and underlined) I wonder how long is it since she last touched 'Kori-rutti'. No Mangalorian can stay away from Kori-rutti for long. trust me. ;) Ashie is a chorni herself., who teams up with our hero (Opps I forgot Hritik is the Bad guy).. sorry Ashie teams up with the bad guy in the film. sings, dances gracefully and looks great (naturally.. as usual).. Hmm about her dance. In some dances she does look a bit stiff.. and the answer is right at her feet.. She wears Ultra high, 8 inch hype extended 045 point tip heels. Well now if her dance steps look a bit stiff wearing those you do rate that as bad. would you?? Come on man, the girl has not touched 'Kori Rutti' from the time the eygyptians started building the pyramids and you have problem with her couple of dance steps being stiff.. Talk of showing some consideration!!! Anyways, lets talk something about others. the 2 gentlemen in the film. Abhishek and Hritik. Abhishek has his 'Frustu', angry, 'I don't care a damn about no one', 'When will my barber return from Allahabad" kind of look. carry forwarded from Dhoom. He is OK. Has a couple of one-liners.. delivered with the same frustu look on his face... But someone who steals the show is Hritik. Hritik is one of those people who grabs everyone's attention, looks real cool .. and all this without even putting any effort in the process. Quite unlike Babi Ab, baby baba, baba black sheep.. whatever.. O ya.. Ab baby. Abhishek bachchan, tries too hard to look cool.. but fails too short.. and ends up looking more frustu....Hritik on the other hand looks great, dances great and provides lots of inspiration to lots of people to hit the Gym.Hritik is at his natural best when it comes to acting here in Dhoom2 as well.Showing that he gives the same amount of focus, dedication and puts in the same amount of effort as in his Dad's film. The songs are not great..
but choreography and dances make up for it.. Well you have 2 of the best dancers in Bollywood here. Some other two things which stand out in the movie is the action sequences and the makeup. the viewer would be quite happy with the effort f detailing which went into the makeup of various disguises that Hritik wears.. Quite good.. The action sequences are cooler than what we saw in DUS. Now are you excited??? par shart hai ki, you should not think "How is that happening? How is that possible?".. Just sit back . enjoy and then say ... "WoW!!!!!".The film as I already said is quite fast paced. The songs in between give you breathing time. yes breathing time.. If the stunts do not take your breath away... the beautiful people will.. ;-) Now let me talk a bit on the story line.. well like always I would not dwell too much on th estory as the aim is not to tell you the story but to present Dhoom2 in another light.. I mean in a light no one has seen .. ;-) The film starts as in the previous version... with a robbery.. but now it gets more cooler and slicker...Hritik handles the job alone..because he works alone... Defying all laws of Physics, as if Newton never gave us 'Gravity'.. Anyways remember, do not think too much .. just enjoy.. Seeing Hritik perform those stunts.. defying laws of gravity, you would wish that apple never caused Newton's brain damage and make him invent gravity... Anyways.. the robbery could have made more classy.. if some more attention would have been paid to science such as Physics or the director had some respect for Newton and his associates.. The robbery takes place in a train somewhere in desert in Namibia. Now if you see teh train it is better than our Rajdhani.. Looks more closer to Japanese Shinkazen (bullet train). Once this robbery is done... hritik celebrates.. We have a song.. and the director takes this opportunity to show the names of the stakeholders of the film while Hritik dances.. Now who would care to look at the names when Hritik is dancing.... Anyways... Song ends. and we are ready for another robbery.
Its of a diamond.. Science at play again to make this robbery a success. The gadget used for the robbery looks as some 1st prize winner at the annual robotics fair held at Mushashi Shinjo in Japan.. Quite some gadget... very innovative....
The 3rd robbery is of a rare bejeweled sword kept in a fort in johpur. this is wher our girl arrives.. Ekdum Dhasu Entry...Mountaineering equipment used here in this robbery...Mountaineering equipments coupled with BATMAN/Power ranger's utility kit in operation.. Shera tenzing would have given anything to get his hands on such equipment.. anything... he could have even parted with his favorite 'Bahadur' chhap gutka... hritik and Ashie meet.. romance.. and they team up for another robbery together..
This time in Brazil.. and look who is here.. Bips... Bips, Beach and Brazil.. ultra hotio, enjoymento, ronaldo, romario.. superbo!!! and Hritik and Ashie rob again.. right under that 'frustu's' nose. Well 4 spectacular robberies and songs in between.. Thats Dhoom2.
Well what do you expect when you put 4 beautiful people (Ok 5 if you care of count Uday in ) in on movie.. VISUAL TREAT.. or in my language... VISUAL SEE PLUS PLUS... Thats right...Thats w
hat Dhoom2 is... Worth a see... You would not get bored.. Again as I said, do not try to analyze the film... and ask questions such as "how" and "why"... just sit back and enjoy... Don't try to find faults.. there are too many and I won't even bother to mention it here. Analyzing the defects would take the fun of the film... This is different kind of film.. the director could have done better.. but I guess having such a great cast was too much of an excitement factor that other detailing part of the movie was left uncared for.... Anyways.. I hope you enjoyed this review reading it as I enjoyed it writing.. Have a great day Sandeep
