First, make a movie with a senseless script, morbid music, and manage to get the movie to be a superhit. So what to do next? Obviously, follow the beaten Hollywood track and make the sequel, and boom..you have Dhoom (2).
Dhoom 2 takes the tradition of bad movie making to the next lower levels of mediocrity. While the prequel was remotely tolerable, no. 2 is grossly intolerable and a complete 'pakaau'.
Abhishek Bachchan is the cop, trying hard to catch Hrithik Roshan, the thief who fashions himself as 'A'. And he makes brilliant thefts, right under the nose of the cops. Suddenly out of nowhere, Aishwarya Rai just pops out. So 'A' joins hands with Aishwarya, and they plan to steal together. Eventually it turns out the Aishwarya is working for the police helping them nab 'A'. Smart 'A' realises Aishwarya's true colours and busts her. He doesnt kill her, and wins her loyalties. They fall in love with one another and start stealing together. After several intermediate events(which are not worth recalling or mentioning here), the cop almost nabs them and decides to let them go, because 'yeh pyaar ka maamla hai'. So they lived happily ever after.
Am I forgetting something? Oh yes, Bipasha Basu is also a cop in the first half, and she seems to play a serious role. However, in the second half she plays a new character who just flaunts around her body in a bikini.
Every bit of the movie feels far-fetched and unrealistic. Granted that Hindi masala movies have always assumed the license to be unrealistic, to defy the laws of physics. But unrealism of this magnitude? Sample this. Hrithik Roshan makes the grandiose entry jumping from the sky with a parachute, and lands with pinpoint accuracy on a tiny moving train on a desert which streches for miles. Or this, Hrithik Roshan emerges out of a drain super clean(not smeared with dirt, shit) in a jet of clean water. More to digest, Abhishek Bachchan defies all laws of buoyancy and manages to submerge his water scooter deep within the water, and vroom, throttle and he launches from the water ten feet into air and kills the villain. And again, the Hero is the Supreme, the Invincible, all bullets just seem to bounce off him. For every 100 bullets fired by the villain, one bullet might just scrape the hero.
Aishwarya Rai is at her irritable best. She looks anything but hot, more like a malnutritioned child from Somalia. Her acting reaches a real low when she makes a feeble attempt at swearing(as if she were hoping nobody would hear her). Abhishek Bachchan has all the makings of an obese 60's actor.
The movie has this pre-defined formula. An actor makes this entry, and has a song dedicated to him. So come the positively repulsive numbers.
After all the lambasting, a positive point. The movie has very good special effects and action sequences. Quite pioneering for an Indian flick.
Overall, the movie is miserable. The movie, thus should ideally be titled 'Doom', for the movie watcher its real dooms day.
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hehe..I downloaded and watched it..can u now realize how bugged life has become?
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