



What a laugh, Aishwarya Rai wolfing down a burger! You should see her here, the sexiest she’s been in a while. End of functional story.) She takes a dainty bite, then asks if she could have some, you know, real food – so he fixes her a big, juicy, calorific burger. On their tail are cops Abhishek, Uday and Bipasha. I got my biggest laugh in the scene where Hrithik whips up a salad dinner for himself and Aishwarya. Heck, even Uday Chopra is allotted a quota of slow-motion.Īnd that’s why Dhoom 2 is as much an action adventure as a show reel for the gorgeousness of its stars. He gets into that slo-mo stride and keeps walking – and walking and walking – towards us. (That’s probably why she’s not sweating, because of that invisible fan under her chin.) And Hrithik, I don’t think I ever saw him walk normally – in normal time, that is. So we’re treated to shots such as the one with Bipasha Basu – as a policewoman so bodylicious, the rest of the force is surely imagining a game of cops ‘n’ rubbers – at a shooting range, with a gun in hand, with her eyes glinting with steely concentration at the outlined target, and… with her hair billowing silkily in the wind. With Bipasha Basu and Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan, this is a star-studded film – what stars! what studs! – and their contracts clearly include a clause that says they will not begin emoting till they have locked eyes with the camera and had their moment (or moments, and more moments) of introductory slo-mo glory. So what’s with the extra thirty minutes, you ask? For the slow-motion shots, of course. But I’ll let you in on a little secret – the content, such as it is, barely fills up a couple of hours. – THE CENSOR’S CERTIFICATE FOR DHOOM 2 has the number of reels as 16, which approximates to roughly two-and-a-half hours.
