Dishoom

The movie starts out pretty well but goes downhill fast. The characters are shallow, scenes are cheesy and the movie wanders like a lost traveler in a desert. Only with songs and some action, they can keep the movie somewhat flowing. The usual climax scene is really bizarre and lame.

BTW, the movie glorifies not just smoking but violating non-smoking rules and regulations. What jerks!

The review for this movie can easily be summarized in one word thrash.

The writing was uninspired and really didn't even make sense. It's like the writers were more focused on trying to fit in as many clichés as possible and not on an actual story. With the first half an hour you'll lose count of the number of clichés you've seen. There are so many clichés that you will cringe all the way through.

Apart from John Abrham the acting was not good. John Abraham managed to capture all that could be caught of his character but the other actors in this film showed that they only know how to do one thing and that is overacting.

This film's music was repetitive to the point in got annoying.

Honestly this film is a borderline human rights violation, watching it felt like torture. Oh and when at the start when it says, "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" that statement is very hard to believe when you lions chains. The purpose of the lions in the scene also didn't really make sense and just left you wondering what was the point of torturing those poor animals.

If I could I would give this movie 0

The trailer of the movie did not create high expectations as it looked like a typical Bollywood action drama with John and Varun as these good looking cops. The movie actually was a pleasant surprise with catchy songs and sharp direction. Debutante Rohit Dhawan has done a great job by not wasting time and to the point story telling. John as an actor has not evolved a bit with his nice physique and poker face his performance is average. Jacqueline also is in her comfort zone doing the same poor performance. But, Varun has taken a lot of efforts to improve which can be seen in his chemistry with John. The exotic locations and Rahul Dev add some spice to the screenplay. Wagah played by Akshay Khanna is a total disappointment and in negative role evokes pity than fear. The overall experience was average and I would go with 7/10 for the efforts of Varun and Rahul Dev.

Nothing much to offer but it still never bores you. Redemption of no-plot is done by decent direction and an average performance by all the actors.

Storyline Rating: 2 Content: 1 Commercialization: 4 Entertainment: 3

Acting Rating: 3 Varun Dhawan: 3 John Abraham: 3 Saqib Saleem: 3 Jacqueline Fernandes: 3

Direction Rating: 3

Music Rating: 2

Cinematography: 3

Editing: 2

DISHOOM REVIEW : Finished watching it on FDFS and all i can say is, its not that movie to work after Weekend on Box office. Basically trailer promised that Film will be full of Action and obviously with Mad Max Fury Action Director, expectations were high. But film broke all expectations and served them into small pieces. Less in comedy, less in action, less in humour, less in entertainment, overall less in everything. Film failed to impress but still entertained as other Average movies does. Akshay Kumar impresses in 5 minutes cameo. Details below -

Acting - Entire Starcast miserably failed to impress. Actually can't blame them entirely cause their roles weren't well written. In between John Abraham impresses as Rude Cop, some funny dialogues from Varun and Jaqueline looks hot in some scenes. Akshay Khanna came back on screen after a long time and failed to impress. Overall nothing impressive in Acting field.

Screenplay - Thank god it had only 2 hours run time otherwise it would have been headache. Film looks average at the point of Interval only then same scenerio continues in 2nd half.

Music - Title song starts the film and it's Rocking. Then no songs in First Half. '100 Tarah Ke' comes quickly after Interval which is situational song and its Bombastic. Then 'Janeman' at End Credit. Overall a Good music album.

Cinematography - Good but not great. Action scenes have been shot well.

Direction - Average ! The main problem is Director failed to keep film pacy despite small run time. Tried too hard to add all the elements but nothing worked big. This field definitely could have been much much better.

Final Words - Overall its Strictly Average Film. You will be entertained for some time but that some time actually comes for a while. This film won't work Critically as well as Commercially. Watch it only if you don't have any other option. 5/10* Stars by me.