It’s not very hard to predict what’s in store for you, if
you have booked your tickets to take a roller-coaster ride in the latest &
the third installment of Bollywood’s first of a kind film-franchisee DHOOM: 3. High
octane action, vrooming bikes, eye-catching locales, brilliantly choreographed
song & dance sequences, fantastic production design & twists in the
tale that you can only see it coming just a few moments before it actually
comes. So, what are the additional elements that make YashRaj Film’s DHOOM 3 an
extremely watchable action thriller, better and bigger than the previous two installments?
Written & directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, DHOOM: 3 is
the most spectacular presentation of all in the series, one would never
question that, but it’s the writing and the performances [I desperately wanted it
to make singular but then you’ll agree to it after watching it] that take it to
another level.
Set in Chicago, story takes you back in 90’s when the
owner of ‘the great Indian circus’ [Jackie Shroff in a delightful cameo] kills
himself after losing his battle to save the property from financial crisis. Years
later, his only son Sahir [Aamir Khan standing tall as a towering inferno] decides
to bring the Bank responsible for his father’s death down all in the dust by
constantly robbing all its branches. With no valid logic behind, ACP Jai Dixit [Abhishek
Bachchan in his one-expression mode] & his ‘still irritating’ associate Ali
Akbar from Nagpada [who else?? The ‘Uday Chopra’] are called in to help the
Chicago Police Department. Rest is the thrilling cat-and-mouse chase sequences
with good amount of bike-stunts, an unpredictable pinch of emotions and a satisfying
surprise in the box that I wish I could tell you more about.
Though the story seems & is very filmy, formulaic and
borrowed straight from some late 70’s vengeance potboilers, the surprise in the
box alone keeps you thoroughly engaged and entertained. Till the time it
reaches you from various sources, I don’t want to be the spoiler. All I can say
is it brings lots of emotions on the board and in a very well executed manner. Keep
guessing!
Of the cast, let’s talk about Katrina first. She’s sexy,
sensuous & stunning as all the Dhoom girls in the past. Though the writing
doesn’t provide her a good meaty role, watch her introduction scene in the ‘Kamli’
song and as briefed by the character of Aamir in the film, you are bound to not
take off your eyes from her for once. What an electrifying appearance!
Same goes with Aamir. The certain amount of charisma and
the sincerity in the performance that he brings with himself is totally infectious.
He sets screen on fire in the magical & the magnificent ‘Malang’ song. Look
at the kind of effort he makes to meet the expectations par level to the new
generation in industry. Commendable job! This is the most commercial
performance of his after GHAJINI.
In a whole 3 hours of duration, it is not plausible that
you do not get carried away with some really putting off sequences like the
typical ‘Uday Chopra’ comical scenes, disregard of a good mix of logic in the
screenplay and a hurriedly conceptualized love-angle between Katrina &
Aamir! But the grand canvas, great production quality, good performance and the
surprise element compensate for the most of it. If you
love ‘no logic’ formula Bollywood, you will love it more! [3/5]
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