Well before letting the world know what I think of this movie; let the clock be turned back umm for few months. It was month of June (year 2006), world cup soccer was very much in air, I had already put in my papers and was going to Delhi to pursue higher studies. And what a fun it was to be relaxed and catch every single minute of soccer. I inflicted this soccer fever on couple of girls in my office as well (well that was a real credit to let em glued to a manly game). Yeah did I mention the only thing that Idiot box had to offer (accepted by me) was a spoof on a speed rage called ‘Dhoom’. That was pure fun, looked idiotic at times but it was fun alright when you awaited your heroes in sky blue and white stripes to announce the beginning of real show.
Must have confused everyone eh!! What the few lines meant was that funny spoof was much more interesting, the sequel was a sleepfest, where an Adonis tried to revitalize things again and again and failed miserably at that.
We started in an African desert with our Adonis stealing the thunder (and a crown) under the nose of watertight security and exhibits a pompous walk and all of sudden breaks into a jig.
If that was not enough we had an Ice maiden who suddenly realizes she is still young, svelte, and umm may be sizzling. All her antics fall flat on the audience. A Mallika may have fitted in a bahu’s role in Ekta’s run of mills, but I couldn’t gobble the fact of an Aish trying to raise temperatures by few notches and explicably she failed at that.
Rest of cast was wasted on expected lines. A man whose only claim is to be famous director’s son and may be a Kapil Devish toothy grin ,did what he does best, boring audience to death and let them believe movie cant go any worse. Famous superstar’s(AB) baby looked lifeless and love interest of current sizzling macho (Bipasha)failed to crackle.
Our Adonis tried the very bandana sported by Johnny Depp in avatar of Pirate in a desperate effort to get some of charm rubbed off on him, desolately we expected the charm but it was conspicuous by its absence. Nor our so called svelte Ice maiden in new hot avatar looked anywhere close to Keira.
Actors were going through motion ahem with a slight spring in their steps (it was a movie about speed you see) and I started waltzing in dreamland (yeah I dozed off) by the time Brazil beckoned.
Finally the sentence was over and we were back roaming in the real world. Ouch I almost rubbished a movie, cant help when you are made to cough up a premium expecting champagne and what you get is cheap spirit sans fizz, anger and irritation is very much palpable
Ps: A Liplock generated a lot of controversy, may be a PR stunt by movie producers. The whole world was interested in intertwining of lips between Adonis and Ice maiden except the family of young angry man of yesteryears. His baby (AB’s baby) cried foul, take it in stride mate! As if you would have whined had you been in Adonis’s shoes. And did I mention Adonis’s real life wife gave pats to hubby dearest for a wonderful effort, she described it as the best his hubby could have ever performed. Ouch Rehaan(youngest one in Adonis’s family) are we suspecting your genes boy!!! Never mind it was tongue in cheek comment, I just wanted to take a sweet and below the belt revenge……
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