Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dum Maaro Dum (2011)

The Plot
How a lonely and aggressive police officer, Vishnu Kamath cleans up the drug racket in Goa is the plot. Kamath is after a major drug loot worth 670 crores that is stashed away somewhere in Goa.  He has his small team of 2 more cops. Lorsa Biscuta is the drug lord in Goa and many foreigners and locals work for him. Entire Goa is ruled by drugs and it leads to all the crimes.  Biscuta uses innocent, aspiring youngsters for his drug trafficking business. Lorry and Zoey are 2 such pawns that he uses. The former agrees for his education expenses and the latter agrees for her career as an air-hostess.

There is also a major mystery regarding Michael Barbosa, a mysterious character. In the end, everything becomes clear. Joki, Zoey's former lover is also involved in this as he wants to save Lorry. One of Kamath's trusted cops plays spoilsport and he is actually an informer to Biscuta. After many deaths, some needless, all the drugs are found and burnt in the end leaving Biscuta fuming. Joki also clears himself and Lorry of all the criminal charges and they get back to their normal lives in the end.

                                                                         
Hits

  • Abhishek Bachchan is picture perfect as the aggressive cop. Top class show. He looks the part as well.
  • Good songs by Pritam
  • The film moves very well in the initial stages due to some stylish editing and great visuals. Quite daring for Indian film standards. 
  • Rana Daggubati looks macho and mean but is very limited in emoting. Bipasha Basu again looks fabulously sexy. 
  • Prateik Babbar as the young Lorry is a natural. His childish voice also suits the part he plays
Misses
  • The film loses grip towards the end. A slow moving screenplay might be the reason. 
  • The climatic twists are also not very shocking. They leave very little impact.
  • The decision to kill the lead police character really backfires. That too for a movie of this genre and that too after showing him in all his glory for most of the film. 
VERDICT
Half baked attempt. Could have been much better given the promising plot and interesting initial scenes. 

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