Apr 23, 2011 01:35 PM
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(Updated Apr 23, 2011 01:45 PM)
Well, I decided to watch the movie because, first there was a long drought of good movies in Bollywood and in the multiplexes mainly because of the world cup and now IPL fever and secondly Deepika in the item number and all the songs overall. My expectation for the rest of Dum Maaro Dum was the same old mafia, drug, politician, and policeman nexus story that every other director tries to portrait with the hope to come out with a thriller and mullah in the box office.
Now the new trend in Bollywood is that the main protagonist is not a person but a place, like Delhi 6 it was Delhi, Dhobi Ghat it was Mumbai and now Dum Maaro Dum it is Goa, the “Miami of India?” Goa is a paradise of drugs, sex and smuggling and in this paradise director Rohan Sippy placed few stories, few entities, few dreams, few eye drops and a lot of violence.
Lorry(Prateik Babbar) is a 17 years old school topper and he along with his affluent girlfriend(Anaitha Nair) want to go abroad for studies and Lorry even manages to get an offer from an US university but the poor lad could not secure a scholarship which means he has to fund his abroad dreams. Being from a lower middle class family, he was very helpless. He got an offer to be a drug carrier from a local drug agent Rocky. First Lorry refused the idea but Rocky knew how to change his mind. But Lorry was not lucky enough to clear the airport customs as he had to face the fearsome ACP Vishnu Kamat(Abhishek Bachchan). He was detained to a jail for the minors. His dreams were all broke down.
ACP Vishnu Kamat was a very corrupt police officer and like all corrupt people he also had an excuse “mey ye saab aapni family ke liye kaar raha hu”. But God kept something else for him. In a car accident his wife(Vidya Balan in a guest appearance) and daughter was killed and the car driver of the other car that hit them was on high with drugs. Vishnu was totally broken and when he decided to commit suicide he got an offer letter from the chief minister to clean up Goa from the drug lords. For Vishnu that was an opportunity to take revenge on this curse that took the life of his beloved ones.
Joki(Rana Daggubati) was a musician who used to run a music store and he dedicated his music to his sweet heart Zoe(Bipasha Basu). Zoe had a dream to become an air hostage but she could not make it in the interview and she was shattered. Here enters Joki’s boss Lorsa Biscuta or better known as Biscuit(Aditya Pancholi). He was the big fish in the drug world, he runs the whole show but Joki didn’t know that. Biscuta offers Zoe job in international airlines because he had links everywhere. But then Zoe comes to know that in return she has to act as a drug carrier. She agrees as that was her only chance to fly high and she hides that from Joki. Unfortunately she gets caught and gets life imprisonment. Biscuta again saves her out but this time she has to pay a higher, much higher price. She becomes his kept and my heart got a pinch when she cries silently surrendering to the greedy wolf and I found my eyes are moist when Joki sings his heart out outside the bar.
Now the story is a roller coaster linking these plots and characters and it all leads to the point how Vishnu Kamat with the help of his two assistants Mercy(Muzzamil) and Shankar Rane(Govind Namdeo) clear Goa from evil and how Biscuta’s underworld collapses.
The first half of the movie is very fast and the director purposely touched everything slightly without going to the depth and let the story move like a rocket and it worked, it really worked. The first half is a treat to watch while in the second half the story starts losing its impact. I wish the editor Aarif Shaikh would put a little bit more effort on second half; the movie would be an outstanding thriller.
Performance wise, Abhishek is outstanding as an angry, aggressive police officer. Rana Daggubati has a lot of potential and I would like to see him again in the silver screen. Bipasha was looking very beautiful and she justified her role to a great extent. Prateik could be used in a better way with a meatier role, the potential of the character is missing there. Aditya Pancholi was average as the stereotype villain(common, he was never a great actor!).
Cinematography is a strong point in this movie and Amit Roy really did a great job making it very stylish and sleek.
Music is the best part of the movie. Pritam really did a great job! The visual effect with Deepika in Dum Maaro Dum was eye catching and it covered the weak lyrics of the song brilliantly. Te Amo is very melodious and the song has a soul. Thayn Thayn is very good sung by Abhishek himself and very coolly picturized on him.
Overall, this is not a movie that you by anyway can’t skip, but I recommend it as a onetime watch. I rate it 3 out of 5.
