For the past one year, I was watching quite a number of Tamil movies. Sometimes, out of force and mostly out of curiosity how competitors of Telugu film industry fare. The curiosity is because the Tamil people will be almost illogical in singing praises about their movies and saying that tollywood and bollywood are nothing in comparison to them (though most of the movies in all the three are copied from International Cinema). In this quest for truth, I watched the movie “Dham Dhoom”. One thing that became certain after it is that they are as bad as we are.
The director’s requirement is to have some exotic locations in India and abroad (may be to show his photographic abilities), peppy music, a youthful hero, one or more heroines with lot of oomph. Once they got these, they might have tried to fit them all into some story (watching all the available Hollywood movies). And the result is “Dham Dhoom”.
The Hero (Jayam Ravi) who is a doctor is selected by the government of India to be sent to St Petersburg to take part in a medical conference (though he is absolutely not interested in it). In Petersburg airport a Russian model leaves her coat which contains drugs with the hero and strangely he is not checked by the customs and security. The model comes to his hotel and collects the coat from him. The hero attends the conference successfully and goes to a pub to dance for an item number. The Russian model joins him in the dance. She gets drunk and he brings her to his hotel not knowing how to dispose her off. In the hotel, she orders one more drink and succeeds in making the hero drunk. Cut there, it is morning, the girl is murdered and the hero is arrested. If you are still interested to watch the movie, you got to watch it on the silver screen.
The murder drama did not raise any interest at all. The director not knowing what to do made the hero run across all the important locations in the city, initially alone and later joined by his lawyer Lakshmi Rai. In between he shows the love story of the hero and his love interest (Kangna Ranaut) in the flash back sequences. This part of the movie is a bit interesting. I really did not understand why the lawyer falls in love with a guy who is charged with the rape and murder of a girl, though she is not sure he did not commit it.
Jayam Ravi is very handsome and is well built. Unlike other south Indian heroes he is not forced to do any extra ordinary fight sequences and stuck to method acting. He got to improve on his acting abilities. Kangna Ranaut did not suit much as a village girl. But, she looked cute in the half saree. Lakshmi Rai is beautiful. There aren’t many other characters that matter a lot.
Music (Harris Jayaraj) and photography (Jeeva) stands out in this otherwise boring movie. The music for the songs is simply outstanding and the background score is good. The beauty of Pollachi and Russia is caught beautifully and presented well on the screen.
The director’s requirement is to have some exotic locations in India and abroad (may be to show his photographic abilities), peppy music, a youthful hero, one or more heroines with lot of oomph. Once they got these, they might have tried to fit them all into some story (watching all the available Hollywood movies). And the result is “Dham Dhoom”.
The Hero (Jayam Ravi) who is a doctor is selected by the government of India to be sent to St Petersburg to take part in a medical conference (though he is absolutely not interested in it). In Petersburg airport a Russian model leaves her coat which contains drugs with the hero and strangely he is not checked by the customs and security. The model comes to his hotel and collects the coat from him. The hero attends the conference successfully and goes to a pub to dance for an item number. The Russian model joins him in the dance. She gets drunk and he brings her to his hotel not knowing how to dispose her off. In the hotel, she orders one more drink and succeeds in making the hero drunk. Cut there, it is morning, the girl is murdered and the hero is arrested. If you are still interested to watch the movie, you got to watch it on the silver screen.
The murder drama did not raise any interest at all. The director not knowing what to do made the hero run across all the important locations in the city, initially alone and later joined by his lawyer Lakshmi Rai. In between he shows the love story of the hero and his love interest (Kangna Ranaut) in the flash back sequences. This part of the movie is a bit interesting. I really did not understand why the lawyer falls in love with a guy who is charged with the rape and murder of a girl, though she is not sure he did not commit it.
Jayam Ravi is very handsome and is well built. Unlike other south Indian heroes he is not forced to do any extra ordinary fight sequences and stuck to method acting. He got to improve on his acting abilities. Kangna Ranaut did not suit much as a village girl. But, she looked cute in the half saree. Lakshmi Rai is beautiful. There aren’t many other characters that matter a lot.
Music (Harris Jayaraj) and photography (Jeeva) stands out in this otherwise boring movie. The music for the songs is simply outstanding and the background score is good. The beauty of Pollachi and Russia is caught beautifully and presented well on the screen.
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