DHOOM 3: Why Aamir Why? Superdud Blockbuster!
For those three hours, I was reminded why I loved, and hated the 90s. A paradox so perplexing, I still have not been able to get my head around it!
Okay, do not jump to any conclusions. Stop, stop right there!
I was not reminiscing, not even anywhere close to it; then why the sudden surge of emotions reminding of my childhood days, you may ask. Well, let me tell you why…
The 90s were the years when I first fell in love with films. They seemed like magic, and they still do. Even after 25 years of my existence, Hindi cinema, or “Bollywood” as we know it, amazes me! These Bollywood film makers can create such nonsense sometimes, yet manage to sell and make hoards of money, and yet garner such love, attention and admiration from the public. I grew up in probably the worst era of cinematic history that Bollywood has ever experienced, so today, watching a film like Dhoom 3 does not faze me. But I guess, to a certain extent, it does disappoint me.
I usually never declare my verdict at the beginning of my reviews, but in the case of Dhoom 3 I think it would be more suitable to warn the readers of what they might be getting themselves in to as early as I as I can. In one plain and simple sentence, it is the worst kind of calamity that Bollywood might face this year (I am not quite sure of what is in store for Bollywood fans this year); yet it has gone on to gross over Rupess 500 crores in profits.
I thought I had seen enough of Viktor Acharya after Tashan, but Yash Raj Films had other plans in the pipeline. They decided to unleash, on the public, what they call Dhoom 3 – the worst job of film editing I think I have seen in my entire life. Yes, it is really that bad; and no, it just doesn’t end there. Let’s go back to Viktor Acharya; So he writes and directs Tashan, and what do you know, it fails – all for good reasons. Then he goes on and writes and directs Dhoom – 3; but this time around, he adds a few bikes, a half clad Katrina Kaif, two baboons by the names of Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra and he hits the jackpot with the one actor whom I had full faith in, Aamir Khan. He throws all of them in Chicago, makes them do a few cool stunts, a little bit of singing and dancing and places them within a seriously sad Good Indian – Bad White Guy plot line. But, it does not stop here; he then, I am assuming, might have smoked a little bit of weed, and decided to write the script. He then might have just drowned his editor in a pool of whiskey and thrown him in the editing room and said “Fulfil all of your wishes that have never been granted – create a beauty for the people’s eyes; the people who are going to spend their hard earned money and watch this work of brilliance that we will create together.” I am also, still, quite surprised by what may have compelled an actor like Aamir Khan to work in this film.
Dhoom – 3 is literally just a compilation of greatly ‘misdirected’ acting performances. It’s a string of random scenes loosely sown together. It does not make any sense. It’s unappealing, unattractive, unexciting and absolutely unbearable. Even Aamir Khan could not save it.
All the other acting performances do not even deserve a mention; the film assumes its viewers to literally be nincompoops who will gobble up anything that is fed to them.
I had never thought that I would ever use such a word for an Aamir Khan film, but sadly, Dhoom – 3 is boring! It is a sad and boring work of cinema; I wish Yash Raj Films would have just donated all that money to circus performers instead – if you want to know what I mean, watch the film, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. And yet, like I said, it went on to gross over Rs 500 crores in profit. Go figure, right?!
I feel that it was the combination of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif that has managed to garner all the attention for this film, along with the fact that Aamir Khan was doing an outright commercial Bollywood film being produced by Yash Raj Films, one of the biggest banners in India. Then again, what might have compelled Aamir to act in this film still fails my understanding.
But whatever said and done, it is Bollywood; it can, it has and it always will, get away with a lot.
For those three hours, I was reminded why I loved, and hated the 90s. A paradox so perplexing, I still have not been able to get my head around it! Okay, do not jump to any conclusions. Stop, stop right there! I was not reminiscing, not even anywhere close to it; then why the sudden surge of...
For those three hours, I was reminded why I loved, and hated the 90s. A paradox so perplexing, I still have not been able to get my head around it!
Okay, do not jump to any conclusions. Stop, stop right there!
I was not reminiscing, not even anywhere close to it; then why the sudden surge of emotions reminding of my childhood days, you may ask. Well, let me tell you why…
The 90s were the years when I first fell in love with films. They seemed like magic, and they still do. Even after 25 years of my existence, Hindi cinema, or “Bollywood” as we know it, amazes me! These Bollywood film makers can create such nonsense sometimes, yet manage to sell and make hoards of money, and yet garner such love, attention and admiration from the public. I grew up in probably the worst era of cinematic history that Bollywood has ever experienced, so today, watching a film like Dhoom 3 does not faze me. But I guess, to a certain extent, it does disappoint me.
I usually never declare my verdict at the beginning of my reviews, but in the case of Dhoom 3 I think it would be more suitable to warn the readers of what they might be getting themselves in to as early as I as I can. In one plain and simple sentence, it is the worst kind of calamity that Bollywood might face this year (I am not quite sure of what is in store for Bollywood fans this year); yet it has gone on to gross over Rupess 500 crores in profits.
I thought I had seen enough of Viktor Acharya after Tashan, but Yash Raj Films had other plans in the pipeline. They decided to unleash, on the public, what they call Dhoom 3 – the worst job of film editing I think I have seen in my entire life. Yes, it is really that bad; and no, it just doesn’t end there. Let’s go back to Viktor Acharya; So he writes and directs Tashan, and what do you know, it fails – all for good reasons. Then he goes on and writes and directs Dhoom – 3; but this time around, he adds a few bikes, a half clad Katrina Kaif, two baboons by the names of Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra and he hits the jackpot with the one actor whom I had full faith in, Aamir Khan. He throws all of them in Chicago, makes them do a few cool stunts, a little bit of singing and dancing and places them within a seriously sad Good Indian – Bad White Guy plot line. But, it does not stop here; he then, I am assuming, might have smoked a little bit of weed, and decided to write the script. He then might have just drowned his editor in a pool of whiskey and thrown him in the editing room and said “Fulfil all of your wishes that have never been granted – create a beauty for the people’s eyes; the people who are going to spend their hard earned money and watch this work of brilliance that we will create together.” I am also, still, quite surprised by what may have compelled an actor like Aamir Khan to work in this film.
Dhoom – 3 is literally just a compilation of greatly ‘misdirected’ acting performances. It’s a string of random scenes loosely sown together. It does not make any sense. It’s unappealing, unattractive, unexciting and absolutely unbearable. Even Aamir Khan could not save it.
All the other acting performances do not even deserve a mention; the film assumes its viewers to literally be nincompoops who will gobble up anything that is fed to them.
I had never thought that I would ever use such a word for an Aamir Khan film, but sadly, Dhoom – 3 is boring! It is a sad and boring work of cinema; I wish Yash Raj Films would have just donated all that money to circus performers instead – if you want to know what I mean, watch the film, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. And yet, like I said, it went on to gross over Rs 500 crores in profit. Go figure, right?!
I feel that it was the combination of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif that has managed to garner all the attention for this film, along with the fact that Aamir Khan was doing an outright commercial Bollywood film being produced by Yash Raj Films, one of the biggest banners in India. Then again, what might have compelled Aamir to act in this film still fails my understanding.
But whatever said and done, it is Bollywood; it can, it has and it always will, get away with a lot.
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