Genre: Action/Crime/Drama
Starring: Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Tabrett Bathell, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, Andrew Bicknell
The original Dhoom movie started off as Bollywood's take on The Fast and The Furious franchisee with the only difference being the movie being centered around 2 wheels instead of 4. The movie garnered a good following due it's action sequences and vehicular chase scenes which prompted the makers to take the series ahead. Dhoom 3 is the latest offering in the series and continues to feature Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra as the leading cop-duo with the villain and female roles changing with every movie. Chicago, USA, a young boy, Sahir Khan (Khan), is a circus artist and along with his father, they own and perform at The Great Indian Circus. The bank has asked them to vacate the property due to non-payment of loans and Sahir Khan's father subsequently commits suicide. Fast forward to current day and Sahir Khan has pledged to take down the very bank due to whom his father lost his life. His motto is simple, take down the bank, branch-by-branch, and distribute the money to everyone on the street. ACP Jay Dixit (Bachchan) and his side-kick Ali (Chopra) have arrived in the US of A on the request to hunt down Sahir and arrest him. But why should an Indian police officer travel half the world to chase down a robber who is outside his jurisdiction and who has got absolutely no link to India and might not even be an Indian citizen? Today's world is connected with the internet and the audience has access to the best of movies from around the world and now realise what is possible and what isn't. Somehow, the makers of the movie have decided that they would continue to make a fool of the viewer by showing the most bizarre and outlandish stunts and hoping that everyone would happily lap it up. Aamir Khan's bike has the unusual ability to become a motorboat on the click of a button, Abhishek Bachchan can drive an auto-rickshaw across roof tops and the Chicago Police Department either does not have guns or does not have bullets inside them to shoot. The special effects and CGI seemed to have been outsourced to an teenage amateur and the action sequences were randomly pieced together without having any concern for the story. Many people, including me, had some tiny hopes from the movie on the pretext that Aamir Khan's presence might do some justice but sadly that has not been the case. The entire movie revolves only around him, to the extent that there was no focus on the bank robberies in itself and everything was about Sahir Khan's personal life and random bike scenes strewn here and there. The songs too were nothing to talk about and you probably won't go dancing or humming to any of it's tunes too quickly. Katrina's presence is simply only for the songs and she has a total of 18 seconds of non-song role to play. Even in those songs her dances seemed incomplete and unpolished and somehow Aamir '2-left-feet' Khan could pull them off better. All-in-all a movie that you absolutely need to avoid at all costs, even if you get paid to view it.
Thumbs up: Out of all the garbage, Aamir Khan's acting is the least smelly piece
Thumbs down: Each and every aspect of the entire movie
Rating: 4.2/10
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