Dhoom 2: The movie without a story

Dhoom 2

On my Heart Attack <---> Coma review scale (Heart Attack = 10 and Coma = 0) I would rate Dhoom 2 as a: Faint (3 out of 10).

Once again, just like in Don, this movie proves that Bollywood has learnt (though not mastered) the art of special effects and stunt sequences (or atleast learnt to hire the right people from outside India!).
This movie ALSO proves another important point: special effects alone do not make a movie a pleasure to watch. If in Don they copied the story, in Dhoom 2 they thought let s pick up scraps of a story from any Hollywood movie (in this case Entrapment) and stitch them together to fool the public into believing that this movie HAS a story! Come on guys we KNOW you can do good special effects... now just prove to us that you can come up with a story to support it too! Stunt sequences without a story to back them up feels like your watching basketball being played with a football!

Dhoom2 for me was a combination of:
1) A hip-hop video
2) Some glitzy special effects
3) Some cool desi-comedy sequences

The Good stuff:
Locations are as usual excellent and Uday Chopra played his role well.
The special effects are good.
Bipasha as Shonali.
Hritik Roshan's dancing and overall screen presence.
The choreography is good (especially in 'Crazy kia re'.
The extra babes are SEXY especially the ones wanting their beachball back ;)

The Bad stuff:
Aishwarya as a 'cool and normal girl'. She just is not able to pull it off! Even her accent is weird! Bad casting or bad role I am yet to decide.
Bipasha as Monali, a weird weird role!
The story (just doesn't add up!).
The music is just not as good as Dhoom. All the songs seem similar.
Hritik Roshan trying to give the 'Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean' look.

In closing I will just say this... Dhoom 2 is the ONLY movie till date where after watching the first 15 minutes, I was READY to switch screens (we had gone to a multi-plex). Just that the movie (Borat) I wanted to switch to with my friend had already started!

Love and Submarine Warfare...

Often Love can be like Submarine Warfare in the old days.

In the old days when the submarines had diesel engines and technology was not as 'hi-tech' as what we have now, submarine warfare was a combination of skill and patience.
During World War II the German submarines used to stalk their targets, often in groups, like wolves before dealing that killing blow. That is why they are were called 'The Wolf Pack'.
But there was no guarantee of success. The submarines while having surprise on their side, had several disadvantages. Therefore often a submarine captain just got one chance to strike effectively. Once detected the submarine was always under threat from several sources such as bombers (armed with torpedos) and destroyers (armed with depth charges).
The standard procedure used to be to identify and track the target, get the 'firing solution' for the torpedo and finally to launch the torpedo and wait to see if it hits the target or not. Launched torpedoes are refered to as 'fish' and to indicate torpedo launch the phrase 'fish are in the water' is used.

Love is like this. Especially when you are trying to woo a girl, at the same time you don't want to tell her plainly that 'I love you' (whatever the reason for that may be). So basically you are the submarine, you have identified the target and now you are tracking it.

While you are tracking it you have a finite window (with respect to time) to launch the attack before the target either obtains friendly air/naval cover or reaches its destination (in other words till the girl finds someone else or it is no longer possible for you to woo her).

How do you tell her you are interested? Well there are 101 ways of expressing your interest. To choose the right way is like obtaining the firing solution on the target and therefore the actual attempt is like launching a torpedo.

Once you make the attempt, all you can do is wait and watch. Once the fish are in the water they will either miss or hit.
If it hits then your problems are solved.
If it misses then too there can be three possible outcomes:
a) you remain un-detected (i.e. girl doesn't understand your attempt and remains un-aware of your feelings)

b) you are detected but no action is taken (i.e. girl is still undecided).

c) you are detected and blown out of the water (i.e. girl REJECTS you).


In case of (a) you might get a few more attempts to re-calculate the firing solution (plan a different method of expressing) and launching a second or third torpedo (i.e. you may get a second or third chance to express yourself).

In case of (b) you need to find out why no action was taken. Maybe you have been tracking the wrong target or something wrong with your attempt. Thus you need to analyse the situation, re-calculate the firing solution (plan a different method of expressing) and then re-fire!

In case of (c) blow main ballast tanks and perform an emergency surfacing manouver and once surfaced perform repairs(in other words bail out, retreat and go lick your wounds). If you are not able to surface (i.e. you become a Romeo without a Juliet) then pray to God that you are bit luckier in your next lifetime!

:)
A.

Why do I drink?

Conversation with a friend...

TK: i've heard some ppl say that the reason they smoke or drink is to forget some things... but when one comes back to ones senses the problem also returns
only way to solve a problem is to solve it... not forget it

Kyuzo: who says i drink to forget problems
i stay sober to forget them

TK: then why do u have to drink?

Kyuzo: to achieve clarity

AN ANONYMOUS COMMENT

i totally agree with ur friend TK. :p
and ur dialogue about clarity is not at all clear to me. it was just OHT. :D

I think the above comment was posted BY MY FRIEND TK in support of her confusion :D

Anyway what I meant was... sometimes when you drink you relax enough to reduce the confusion which allows the emotions to flow freely. You allow your emotions a free access. This free access, you may say, 'clears the air'... thus bringing clarity.

What the hell is that!

Can anyone tell me what this is?