Directed by : Vijay Krishna Acharya
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833673/
Aamir's top notch performance makes this best dhoom film.
Read this post at your own risk.. its full of spoilers.
If you have been a regular reader of my blog, then you must be knowing how much I have hated masala movies this year. This post therefore will come as a surprise, because Dhoom3 though essentially a action movie very much falls in same category, yet I have loved it madly. Finally an all-out commercial movie that didn't dissappoint me. The reason mainly, is the Dhoom franchise that has always made me mad. Dhoom machale of Dhoom was the reason I became a music lover (before that I hardly use to listen songs all day), John's performance as a cool theif, was followed by Hrithik in Dhoom2. The very idea of a cool theif who will make it hard for cops to tackle amazed me (ofcourse I am always anti towards cops).
The only worry with Dhoom3 was the failed director Vijay whose last outing Tashan was a serious headache for me. But, thank goodness, he looks in super form. Yes, there's one scene where he looked in Tashan hangover, the intro scene of Jai (Abhishek Bacchan) and Ali (Uday Chopra) with the total over-the-top stunt sequence in auto-rickshaw and bike. Infact, if I ever think of editing the movie for personal use, I will definately cut this sequence, and bring them into the story with the scene where they head over to Chicago. I don't think their characters require filmy entry in every new dhoom series.
Now coming to the best part of the movie, which is breathtaking stunt sequences, and a brilliant 2nd half. The last two series lacked in one thing only, and that was a weaker 2nd half which meant we had to wait for the climax to see that last stunt. But in Dhoom3, there's a very good drama built over Shahir and Samar (twins, both played by Aamir Khan). This meant, there was no side plots of Jai-Ali unlike last two parts, they have no romantic interests (apart from Ali's regular dreamy scenes). The fact that its an all out Aamir Khan based story makes the impact large. For the first time in Dhoom series, we have a theif whose background is told to us, the theif is still cool and stylish with the manner he steals but the reason here lies the revenge of his father's Iqbal Khan (Jackie Shroff) death.
Aamir's entry scene is spectacular, if I tend to write a blog post on Best Entry scenes in future this scene is gonna be part of it for sure. The camera-angles, way its cut, the background theme and the lines 'bandhey hai hum', everything perfect. The 1st chase sequence gave me goosebumps, it had many stunts, something I felt 2nd chase sequence lacked a bit. Specially the bike roll beneath truck, kick to cop and the standing on bike while crossing cars. The final chase was super, loved the theme that plays when Shahir-Jai fight over bike. All the twists in each three of these chases made them look even better.
The idea of twins in a magic trick (taken from Nolan's 'The Prestige'), and bike that transforms into various shapes when required (taken from Nolan's 'Batman series') was applauable, for a change how inspiration can be used to own benifit is showcased here without lifting complete hollywood movie.
Only flaws apart from the intro scene of Jai-Ali, were the exessive use of slow motions, especially when chicago cops are lined up to shoot at Shahir/Samar, it made them look very stupid, plus the magic of that particular stunt got reduced. I would had preferred to see cops failing while trying, and not failing without trying (they didn't knew guns are used to shot). Editing was actually very weak, film could easily had been tighter with 10-15 mins cut.. or maybe have additional Shahir heist.
Also, I felt Shahir-Samar should not have died. When they escape away from Jai-Ali, they could had ended it there with a next scene showing where they both are, and what happened to Aaliya (Katrina Kaif). The dialogue 'isko nahi pakad sakte' would had fitted too. But yes, it would had denied the great emotional use of 'Bandhey hai hum uske, humpe kiska zor' in the current climax.
Music of Pritam is as good as Dhoom. Dhoom2 had only 2 good songs (title and crazy kiya re). Aditi's title rendition appeals more with video though unlike previous title versions that I loved listening without video. Love that stunt scene of Shahir-Samar during 2nd stanza in the song. My favs though are Kamli and Tu hi Junoon. Kamli is outstandingly picturised on Katrina, with her unbelievable dance moves and stunts, just like Shahir says 'koshish toh bahut ki', I couldn't take eyes off her during those 5 mins. It can well be termed as a strip dance number. Sunidhi has sung it very well, if you notice the change in her voice modulation during song. Tu hi Junoon is extremely romantic, love the cuteness Aamir brings into the song picturisation, Katrina looks hot in red dress specially. Malang is magical for the use of various props filling up the frame, love the Samar part in it which isn't there in audio version. Only 'Tap dance' didn't gel well with me.. must had been tough to practice it, I doubt even Hrithik would had made me love it.. feel tap dance should had been part of the choreography and not base whole dance on foot tap.
Background themes is another plus point of the movie, something I missed in Dhoom2. Here, we have the regular tune re-worked in great way, and there are some additional themes, all of them are fantastic. And happy to see 'Overtrue' theme presented in audio album.. one of best themes I have ever heard.
Dialogues are very well written, many punchlines work, my fav is 'jo duniya ko namumkin lage, wahi mauka hota hai.. kartab dikhaane ka'.
Aamir ensured that the year ended with a bang, another praiseworthy performance added to his list. As Shahir, his angry expressions in entry scene, the revenge look when he says 'main ghar aa gaya baba', his way of telling 'fuck you (tumhari aisi ki taisi)' to Jai during the entire conversation sequence (love the bg that plays when he throws coin in air). As Samar, he was too lovable right from the moment he says 'bandhey hai hum kiske', or when he talks about his secrets, when he tells Jai 'chor toh sab hote hai, chori karne ko milna chahiye kuch'. The two argument conversations between Shahir and Samar, especially the 2nd one was example of class acting, anger vs emotions.. that was infact my 2nd most fav scene after the entry scene .. very emotional (Tu mastermind, aur main khatra). We get to see him play a autism character, to do 2 different characters in same movie, and not faltering at any moment is commendable.
Abhishek at places (as I wrote during trailer blogpost) was repeating his dialogues from previous dhoom films.. still in comparison to Dhoom2, he looked and acted much better.
Uday Chopra was funnier, thanx to the fact that he has less screen time. There are two long sequences where he does irritate, which tells that its better off to have small dialogue scenes of his along with dreamy thoughts.. asking more than that from him won't work.
Katrina Kaif has small role, but in her dance moves, in all 4 songs she features in.. she is terrific. In acting, she falters during 1 scene badly.. when she asks Samar for date. Other than that, she is pretty fine. She has good chemistry with Aamir, but I would prefer to see her having larger role next time she acts with Aamir.
Jackie Shroff is excellent in his cameo role. Very good to see him do good meaningful roles, first in Aurangzeb and now Dhoom3.
Tabrett Bethell, australian actress who plays Victoria, hardly gets any scope to perform. Might had been better to let her lead cops in few scenes. To add to it, she was made to enact those dreamy Ali sequences, specially that kamasutra sequence.
Dhoom3 exceeds above all the expectations, Aamir's excellent acting, background themes, chase sequences, music and Katrina's dance moves. Flaws are there, but they don't come in the way of loving the movie.
Verdict : EXCELLENT
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833673/
Aamir's top notch performance makes this best dhoom film.
Read this post at your own risk.. its full of spoilers.
If you have been a regular reader of my blog, then you must be knowing how much I have hated masala movies this year. This post therefore will come as a surprise, because Dhoom3 though essentially a action movie very much falls in same category, yet I have loved it madly. Finally an all-out commercial movie that didn't dissappoint me. The reason mainly, is the Dhoom franchise that has always made me mad. Dhoom machale of Dhoom was the reason I became a music lover (before that I hardly use to listen songs all day), John's performance as a cool theif, was followed by Hrithik in Dhoom2. The very idea of a cool theif who will make it hard for cops to tackle amazed me (ofcourse I am always anti towards cops).
The only worry with Dhoom3 was the failed director Vijay whose last outing Tashan was a serious headache for me. But, thank goodness, he looks in super form. Yes, there's one scene where he looked in Tashan hangover, the intro scene of Jai (Abhishek Bacchan) and Ali (Uday Chopra) with the total over-the-top stunt sequence in auto-rickshaw and bike. Infact, if I ever think of editing the movie for personal use, I will definately cut this sequence, and bring them into the story with the scene where they head over to Chicago. I don't think their characters require filmy entry in every new dhoom series.
Now coming to the best part of the movie, which is breathtaking stunt sequences, and a brilliant 2nd half. The last two series lacked in one thing only, and that was a weaker 2nd half which meant we had to wait for the climax to see that last stunt. But in Dhoom3, there's a very good drama built over Shahir and Samar (twins, both played by Aamir Khan). This meant, there was no side plots of Jai-Ali unlike last two parts, they have no romantic interests (apart from Ali's regular dreamy scenes). The fact that its an all out Aamir Khan based story makes the impact large. For the first time in Dhoom series, we have a theif whose background is told to us, the theif is still cool and stylish with the manner he steals but the reason here lies the revenge of his father's Iqbal Khan (Jackie Shroff) death.
Aamir's entry scene is spectacular, if I tend to write a blog post on Best Entry scenes in future this scene is gonna be part of it for sure. The camera-angles, way its cut, the background theme and the lines 'bandhey hai hum', everything perfect. The 1st chase sequence gave me goosebumps, it had many stunts, something I felt 2nd chase sequence lacked a bit. Specially the bike roll beneath truck, kick to cop and the standing on bike while crossing cars. The final chase was super, loved the theme that plays when Shahir-Jai fight over bike. All the twists in each three of these chases made them look even better.
The idea of twins in a magic trick (taken from Nolan's 'The Prestige'), and bike that transforms into various shapes when required (taken from Nolan's 'Batman series') was applauable, for a change how inspiration can be used to own benifit is showcased here without lifting complete hollywood movie.
Only flaws apart from the intro scene of Jai-Ali, were the exessive use of slow motions, especially when chicago cops are lined up to shoot at Shahir/Samar, it made them look very stupid, plus the magic of that particular stunt got reduced. I would had preferred to see cops failing while trying, and not failing without trying (they didn't knew guns are used to shot). Editing was actually very weak, film could easily had been tighter with 10-15 mins cut.. or maybe have additional Shahir heist.
Also, I felt Shahir-Samar should not have died. When they escape away from Jai-Ali, they could had ended it there with a next scene showing where they both are, and what happened to Aaliya (Katrina Kaif). The dialogue 'isko nahi pakad sakte' would had fitted too. But yes, it would had denied the great emotional use of 'Bandhey hai hum uske, humpe kiska zor' in the current climax.
Music of Pritam is as good as Dhoom. Dhoom2 had only 2 good songs (title and crazy kiya re). Aditi's title rendition appeals more with video though unlike previous title versions that I loved listening without video. Love that stunt scene of Shahir-Samar during 2nd stanza in the song. My favs though are Kamli and Tu hi Junoon. Kamli is outstandingly picturised on Katrina, with her unbelievable dance moves and stunts, just like Shahir says 'koshish toh bahut ki', I couldn't take eyes off her during those 5 mins. It can well be termed as a strip dance number. Sunidhi has sung it very well, if you notice the change in her voice modulation during song. Tu hi Junoon is extremely romantic, love the cuteness Aamir brings into the song picturisation, Katrina looks hot in red dress specially. Malang is magical for the use of various props filling up the frame, love the Samar part in it which isn't there in audio version. Only 'Tap dance' didn't gel well with me.. must had been tough to practice it, I doubt even Hrithik would had made me love it.. feel tap dance should had been part of the choreography and not base whole dance on foot tap.
Background themes is another plus point of the movie, something I missed in Dhoom2. Here, we have the regular tune re-worked in great way, and there are some additional themes, all of them are fantastic. And happy to see 'Overtrue' theme presented in audio album.. one of best themes I have ever heard.
Dialogues are very well written, many punchlines work, my fav is 'jo duniya ko namumkin lage, wahi mauka hota hai.. kartab dikhaane ka'.
Aamir ensured that the year ended with a bang, another praiseworthy performance added to his list. As Shahir, his angry expressions in entry scene, the revenge look when he says 'main ghar aa gaya baba', his way of telling 'fuck you (tumhari aisi ki taisi)' to Jai during the entire conversation sequence (love the bg that plays when he throws coin in air). As Samar, he was too lovable right from the moment he says 'bandhey hai hum kiske', or when he talks about his secrets, when he tells Jai 'chor toh sab hote hai, chori karne ko milna chahiye kuch'. The two argument conversations between Shahir and Samar, especially the 2nd one was example of class acting, anger vs emotions.. that was infact my 2nd most fav scene after the entry scene .. very emotional (Tu mastermind, aur main khatra). We get to see him play a autism character, to do 2 different characters in same movie, and not faltering at any moment is commendable.
Abhishek at places (as I wrote during trailer blogpost) was repeating his dialogues from previous dhoom films.. still in comparison to Dhoom2, he looked and acted much better.
Uday Chopra was funnier, thanx to the fact that he has less screen time. There are two long sequences where he does irritate, which tells that its better off to have small dialogue scenes of his along with dreamy thoughts.. asking more than that from him won't work.
Katrina Kaif has small role, but in her dance moves, in all 4 songs she features in.. she is terrific. In acting, she falters during 1 scene badly.. when she asks Samar for date. Other than that, she is pretty fine. She has good chemistry with Aamir, but I would prefer to see her having larger role next time she acts with Aamir.
Jackie Shroff is excellent in his cameo role. Very good to see him do good meaningful roles, first in Aurangzeb and now Dhoom3.
Tabrett Bethell, australian actress who plays Victoria, hardly gets any scope to perform. Might had been better to let her lead cops in few scenes. To add to it, she was made to enact those dreamy Ali sequences, specially that kamasutra sequence.
Dhoom3 exceeds above all the expectations, Aamir's excellent acting, background themes, chase sequences, music and Katrina's dance moves. Flaws are there, but they don't come in the way of loving the movie.
Verdict : EXCELLENT
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