{"id":755,"date":"2006-11-23T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2006\/11\/review-dhoom-2-2.html"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:54:19","slug":"review-dhoom-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2006\/11\/review-dhoom-2-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Review : Dhoom 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Rating : Below average (2.9\/5)
\nGenre : Thriller
\nYear : 2006
\nRunning time : 2 hours 45 minutes
\nDirector : Sanjay Gadhvi
\nCast : Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Aishwarya Rai, Uday Chopra<\/strong><\/p>\n

DHOOM 2 : DISAPPOINTING !<\/em><\/p>\n

This is quite an unbearable film. Halfway through it, I\u2019m waiting for the film to pick up and show some promise. But it doesn\u2019t; it gets worse. If you cringed when in KANK<\/a>, Karan Johar fawned over Shahrukh Khan, it\u2019s massive cringe time for you (me, I curled up in a tiny ball in my expensive $8 seat) \u2013 because Gadhvi fawns over Hrithik and Bachchan and Rai. And not once either \u2013 he goes in for this repeat adulation thing where he camera kisses them again and again and again, actually every-time they appear on screen, until I\u2019m sick to the gills of a hero in slow motion being thrust adoringly down my throat. The kid seated in the row ahead of us keeps crying, and I know how he feels.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking it\u2019s actually nice to be watching a new movie on Thanksgiving Day, with all the malls closed etc. And a day before it releases in India too \u2013 fancy that ! So, of course with all the hype, the hall is pretty full for an afternoon show, and as we leave the theatre at the end of the movie, I hear that the 7 o\u2019clock show is sold out. What I\u2019d like to do is put up a big sign, urging all the poor sods in the ticket queue to save their money; only I think the theatre owner might have a fit.<\/p>\n

Mr. A (Roshan) is the perfect thief pursued by ACP Jai Dixit (Bachchan) and his pal sub-inspector Ali (Uday Chopra). Rai plays Sunehri, wannabe-master-thief who wants to team up with Mr. A. Rimi Sen has a walk-on part as Dixit\u2019s pregnant wife Sweety. And Bipasha Basu has a double role, one as ACP Shonali Bose (they call her Sho) helping ACP Dixit catch Mr. A. and the other as Shonali\u2019s twin sister and Brazilian bikini-clad beach babe Monali (exercise to the reader : do they call her Mo ?).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s precious little going on in the film. I mean they literally don\u2019t do anything. There is some action, but it\u2019s done primarily to idolize the star (what he\u2019s wearing, how high he jumps etc.) who\u2019s doing it rather than move the film ahead. There is 1 poorly-done fight sequence, no suspense, no drama and no pizzazz really. Repetitive shots of smug hero\/heroines showing them contemplating\/smirking do not a film make. It\u2019s not fun watching anyone think. For more than 2 minutes.<\/p>\n

The story is a spindly little thing on stilts. Very weak and shaky. Not to mention boring. The background music is incessant \u2013 and it\u2019s not very good either. Every 2 minutes of dialogue is followed by annoying background music and some more fawning adulation of some or the other character. We see Rai, Bachhan, Roshan, Basu (take your pick) in slow motion, from different angles, in different clothes, in different pouts and in different stages of hirsutism (the latter for Abhishek only). I mean, I can handle adulation, love, obsession even, but let\u2019s pin all the above onto a decent story please. Disjointed pieces of fawning adulation, stuck together, do me no good. The acting is pathetic and the dialogues are as cheesy and corny as they get. The story, such as it is, is featherweight (poof ! and it\u2019s gone !) and the characters aren\u2019t developed at all. The \u201cdepth\u201d of the film thus is akin to that of the Yamuna in a Delhi summer.<\/p>\n

The director in his desire to be \u201ccool\u201d gets his characters to talk affectedly. Of course Aishwarya is naturally \u201caffected\u201d so this doesn\u2019t make a difference in her acting. In an effort to be even more cool, they whiz about on fancy motor-bikes, roller-skates and speed-boats. Since Mr. A is a super-whiz he messes around with various robotic gadgets, all of which appear to be more intelligent than any character in the film. Hrithik does try to act but his character is so pathetically developed that I didn\u2019t believe it (yeah, inspite of those wash-board abs). Abhishek does act but has far too much hair on his face to deliver coherent dialogue. I know that without \u201cthe bearded look\u201d he looks like a kid, but too much hair (as in this case) reminds me unpleasantly of Neanderthal man. The hair on the face \u2013 a matter of fine balance you know.<\/p>\n

Miss Basu and Ms. Rai are devoid of any hair (except on the head) that I could see and reveal slim, tanned limbs in short shorts and mini-skirts. Bipasha can\u2019t act but that doesn\u2019t matter here as her role is of no consequence to the story. Rai can\u2019t act either, and sadly (for the poor movie-goer) it does matter because her character actually does stuff. As far as Uday Chopra is concerned, the less said the better.<\/p>\n

Gadhvi has not made a film; I believe he\u2019s made a style statement(s). Do I want to spend my money watching a 3 hour long (bad) style statement, with a weak story, shallow characters, bad editing (did they even have an editor ?), poor screenplay, uninspiring music and non-actors to boot ? I think not.<\/p>\n

This film actualy reminds me Karam<\/a>, where the director was so busy polishing his technique, he forgot he was making a film for commercial consumption. To summarize, this is one bad film. Be warned \u2013 if you thought Dhoom was OK, Dhoom 2 is much, much worse.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer instead, it’s free and it’s better !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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