Finally went to watch Dhoom 2. Entered the theatre with really no expectations. D2??? I couldn’t care less. The 80 odd reviews on D2 which I read on MS had given me a fair idea of what to expect from this flick. So, from the very beginning, when everybody else (including wifey) was gaping and gasping at Hrithik’s eye-popping jaw-dropping and hair-spiking stunts, I was coolly counting the goofs (or is it gooves…funny language..this English is!) in the movie….and believe me, there were plenty of them.
Brickbats first.
Opening scene: Hrithik flies out from the skies and lands on the train. Ok. Big deal. As good as a laser guided bomb. But did you care to listen to the background score accompanying the stunt? You DON’T play such a silly noisy type of music with that kind of stunt. Perfect silence was needed…with a soft thud of Hrithik landing on the train. It would have been dramatic. NO EXTRA NOISE. Instead, Hrithik’s arrival on the scene was accompanied with such dreadful hullabaloo and fanfare, that it would have aroused even the lousiest of guards, let alone the supposedly crack militia accompanying the crown! And Hrithik himself looked far from convincing in that scene. It seemed the director had asked him to give an awfully longish stony faced shot in a hunched up position atop the moving train, which he dutifully did.
Abhishek’s entry: Clumsy. A perfect combination of uncontrolled lankiness, awkwardness, sheepishness and unbearable ‘beard’liness, all moulded into a cranky arched form shooting from the water into the sky on a water scooter! The director should really have arranged a nice little accident for ACP Jai Dixit in the opening scene in which he would have broken all of his limbs and be rendered bedridden for the next two hours. At least we would have been spared Abhishek’s sullen face for the rest of the movie. And have you ever seen an encounter in which four miscreants seem to be standing lazily on a boat and firing in full ‘frontal’ view while the ACP and his stooge are cowering behind drums? Are we cows? Do we eat grass? Doesn’t the average viewer seem to have even a vestige of something called common sense? How does the director even think of taking us for a ride?? And the rate at which Jr. AB is growing his beard, by the time D3 is made, he might outgrow Saeed Anwar or Md. Yousuf!!
Uday’s histrionics: There is an exceedingly funny character in Bengali literature known an ‘BAANTUL The Great’ – a short statured muscleman well known for goofing up big time. Uday reminded me of Baantul! Boy oh boy! He IS growing. He is nearly double in hulk as compared to D1. In D3 he might be doing the role of a matador bull in some picturesque ‘Yash Chopra type’ locale in Spain or thereabouts! You really do not need Ali’s character in D2. He DID NOT please anyone except himself with his buffoonery!
Bippasha: Oomph ki galat paribhasha….Bechare Uday ki aakhree aasha…..aur Copacabana beach par Fully Faltoo tamashaa….that’s it. Period.
Story line: Even flimsier than FTV’s lingeries.
Now the Bouquets:
Hrithik Roshan: Awesome. He tried to give his best. No second thoughts on that. He toiled and toiled for all those mind blowing stunts. Tried to look as convincing as possible in all those remarkable get ups. And great dancing to boot. He truly IS international material. Would really love him to see as ….. BOND!!!!!! What do you say guys?
Aishwarya: Truly a gutsy and a thoroughly professional performance. If you’ve got it, why not flaunt it. And the kiss…Oh God! Spare me. In this era when the boob tube (the TV yaar….why do you get me wrong everytime?) teaches you to shout condoms, you throw up a needless tantrum on a ‘perfect’ kiss by two gutsy performers. Indeed a height of toadishness.
So, there goes my careless review. I know you are all exhausted rating reviews and writing comments on Dhoom 2. Still….
And thanx as always for reading my stuff.
Sudipto