Dhoom franchise right from the start has represented
robbery, deceit, love and action. But unfortunately sequels of the original
John Abraham starrer has somehow aggravated more and more into nothing but an
unprecedented blunder. The ‘Hrithik-Ash’ starrer Dhoom 2 started off
thrillingly but rather ended up being in an unbelievable mess. Sadly, Dhoom
franchise has reached an ebbing point it seems, since the 2013 Christmas
release Dhoom 3 stands no exception.
The only ingenuity in the Aamir Khan starrer was the fact
that the villain had a structured background; a strong unbridled urge to go
about on a looting mission. The movie opens up with Iqbal Khan (Jackie Shroff)
heading towards cusp of being bankrupt as he fails to repay the loan to Western
Bank of Chicago with only means to save his future is the great Indian Circus.
A master trick with help of his son Sahir (which evidently
has been copied ditto from Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige) which he shows to
the banker Mr. Anderson; who apparently is the most difficult man to please
finally ends up with Anderson demanding Iqbal to hand over the circus in five
days. A distraught Iqbal puts up a revolver to his head saying a few harsh
Hindi epithets before pulling off the trigger and bidding farewell to the
world. This is the top cause for which Aamir swears revenge against the bank.
The reason to take reprisal seems highly languid and dubious. I mean what
the director wanted to make clear through the story was that if the bank
demands repayment of the loan; they are utterly wrong and vindictive.
So now since his father his dead, Sahir Khan (Aamir) wants
the Western Bank of Chicago closed and the only way to achieve it is by robbing
people’s money in the bank and not just simply robbing, but also making the
robbed money rain on the streets of Chicago; the most worthless and vexatious
plot to pull off a heist. The most cloddish part of the chase sequence is
Sahir’s bike which transforms into rather anything he needs it to be; it can
move about in the waters of Chicago as a motorboat or it can even penetrate the
waters as a submarine.
Jai
(Abhishek) and Ali (Uday) happen to be an inseparable part of Dhoom franchise.
It is as if both the characters are latched to the sequels of Dhoom; Be it a
robbery on the streets of Mumbai, a heist in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil or series
of robberies in Chicago, America: These two so-called top cops from Mumbai
Police are to be summoned in every part of the world to crack the cases. Make
him rob again; Jai Dixit sticks to his favourite algorithm of catching the
thieves in every Dhoom movie. Uday Chopra is preposterous as an actor
displaying his wide range of slapstick humour which hardly manages to bring
even a grin on the faces of the spectators. Action sequences involving Jai and
Ali in Chennai remind you strangely of action sequences in films like Dabang
and Bodyguard. (Jai flies in mid air from bike up to two floors only to punch
the villain; Jai drives an auto Rickshaw on the rooftops)
Katrina ,who plays the acrobat;Aliya, does not have any pivotal
role in the movie. She is merely served as a purpose to treat the eyes which
she fulfils well and good through the songs ‘Kamili’ and ‘Malang’. Malang was
ostentatious exhibiting sheer grandeur and an excellent choreography. The
cinematography was spectacular but failed to save the declining fate of the
film. Aamir displays mediocre acting skills; not at all suited to his ‘Mr.
Perfectionist’ title (which he hardly is) and he even fails to resemble a bad
guy even in the slightest. He has failed to get out of his usual comfort zone
and etiolated the storyline even further. Not to mention, I strongly feel another actor
from Bollywood youth club in place of Aamir could have dealt with Sahir Khan’s
role in much sophisticated manner
The plot is flawed at places just like the chase sequences
in the movie. The direction is totally amateurish and disastrous. I still
cannot put pieces together as in why Aditya Chopra chose Vijay Krishna Acharya
over all the top directors in Yash Raj to direct such big budget project even
after his disastrous debut ‘Tashan’ ? The director has represented Dhoom 3 in a
rather clumsy and desultory way adapting the screenplays from Hollywood movies
like ‘Now you See Me’ and ‘The Prestige’.
So overall, if you want to look for some action
entertainment, Dhoom 3 is not the one you should look at. It should simply be abjured for something worth more riveting.
4 stars on 10
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