Dishoom, is directed by Rohit Dhawan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The talented Saqib Saleem is wasted in a passive role of the kidnapped cricketer Viraj Sharma.
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“I would love to do such a project and I’ve also looked out for some scripts and there are certain things like that”. Even expressionless people don’t seem dead inside the way he is. Harbouring much contempt for each other initially, their misadventures ensure that much bromance brews before the director calls it a wrap. What he lacks in true acting chops, he makes up for in sincerity.
With a rushed sense of energy, Varun Dhawan as Junaid is charming. Kabir is so brilliant that he is sent over to the Middle-East by the external affairs minister herself. Junaid (Dhawan) plays Kabir’s partner. What you needed in its place was entertaining banter that doesn’t just rear its head on rare occasions but is effortlessly interwoven into the whole film. So it’s pleasantly surprising that Dishoom, for the most part of its first half, is fairly enjoyable. Director Dhawan can not seem to hold on to his promising premise, and introduces more and more ridiculous plot elements as the film inches towards its climax. What it doesn’t have, however, is the same technical finesse. In cameo roles Nargis Fakhri and Parineeti Chopra are eye sweets. Rohit and co-writer Tushar Hiranandani stay safely within the genre boundaries. Viraj is trapped in the net of bookie Wagah (Akshaye Khanna) and as the cops close in on him, they find an unexpected ally in a Boxer named Bradman, and a camp party animal played with absolute relish by Akshay Kumar. This is ’90s humour at its worst – a stereotypical portrayal of a token gay character as oversexed and shallow merely to generate cheap laughs. Rather obviously, this widely promoted film has opened better in the single screen circuit.
Jacqueline Fernandez ups the glamour quotient and joins in on the fun as she smuggles the two cops into a neighbouring country, which borrows its name and its premise from television’s “Tyrant”. In fact, amusing one-liners are refreshing and one of the assets of the film.
There are badly executed CGI chases through the desert, a half-hearted romance between Meera and Kabir, while Akshaye Khanna features as an evil cricket match-fixer desperate to reverse his losses.
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However, it has an interesting screenplay.
