Dhoom Dhaam Movie Cast/Actors: Pratik Gandhi, Yami Gautam, Eijaz Khan & Others
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Director: Rishab Seth
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Production House: Netflix, Jio Studios & B62 Studios
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Release Date: 14th February, 2025
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Available On: Netflix OTT Platform
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Runtime: 1h 48m
Dhoom Dhaam Movie Critic Review:
It’s a far-from-humorous arranged match between Koyal (Yami Gautam) and Veer Poddar (Pratik Gandhi), both looking way past the inexperienced young, eligible bachelor girl or boy stage. It’s even more like an unfunny caricature when parents talk glowingly on their behalf, the ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ nodding like bovine. Veer is a ‘veterinarian’, the families can’t pronounce it as they grapple with ‘vegetarian’ and ‘veteran’. Laugh, guys. It’s followed by over-enthu families crowding ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ who get no chance to get to know each other until their wedding night.
Director Rishab Seth’s scenes calibrated for chuckles, don’t work so far.
Worse follows as writers Aarsh Vora, Aditya Dhar and Rishab Seth give awkwardness to the groom who fumbles with initiating first-night proceedings, like it’s the height of humour. He even apologises to Koyal for a packet of condoms in his pocket.
There is ‘interruptus’ while tea-making (not lovemaking) with a gun-wielding Sathe (Eijaz Khan) and another goon barging in with the demand that they hand over Charlie.
Who’s Charlie?
They are in a hotel with other customers, employees, security et al. But instead of calling any of them or the cops, Koyal and Veer run all over the city at midnight with impossible scenes like traffic cops towing away a car and a baraat coming out of nowhere. The purported comedy doesn’t land at any time, any place.
On the run, Veer discovers that Koyal’s anything but the good girl with curfew time at 7pm. Boyfriends, drinking, racing cars, cursing, kicking men where it hurts. She’s done it all, said it all and it’s topped with the most misplaced spiel on feminism from Koyal outside a nightclub. Girls don’t have freedom, therefore they have to do these things on the sly. Spare us the cliches at least at this unwarranted juncture, please.
She discovers that he’s a stickler for rules (seat belt, check the rearview mirror, stop at red lights) when they’re supposed to be driving away from the goons. He has acrophobia, claustrophobia and maybe hydrophobia too, all of which vanish with one outstretched hand from Koyal.
Zabardasti humour is attempted with Veer having to do a male striptease for panting women. A mix-up of who are the real cops and who are the goons with Koyal’s dog Touche humping guests and random villains, are other lame jabs at comedy.
Trying to show a brewing closeness between Koyal and Veer also carries no spark in a screenplay with such feeble scenes that they leave little room for chemistry or romance. Overcoming acrophobia by watching New Year fireworks from the top floor of a building under construction and gradually touching hands, hardly cuts it.
Apart from the obvious miscasting of two mature actors as young eligibles in the marriage market, the writing and direction are school-level childish.
It is astonishing that the production house that made substantial fare like Uri: The Surgical Strike and Article 370, has come up with such a weak film. But then comedy is serious business and you’ve got to have a wacky bone for it.
Dhoom Dhaam – Watch Or Not?: A re-run of an old Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee or Priyadarshan film would be funnier than this un-organic comedy.
Dhoom Dhaam Review Score Rating: 1.5 out of 5 (i.e. 1.5/5)
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Credits: Netflix India
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