hey. u write well.
and for the record, my surname is spelt with another `h'. its Deepa Bhasthi.
nice template

i wil change it asap:)

hi Deepshikha,

Well written no doubt , but i wish it was for another movie! Dhoom 2 wa probably the worst movie of the year and its unfortunate that there are many like you who have misunderstood the meaning of coming of age of Indian cinema. But i dont blame you or the others for it.i blame bad directors, bad scriptwriters , copy-cat producers, and most of all...silent audiences. we seem to digest whatever comes out of that silver screen packaged in designer clothes and exotic locales. film-makers have completely forgotten about the plot and the story it seems! in dhoom 2 do you remember how hrthk and ash get in and out of the fort inspite of the security outside?you dont ..cos it wasnt shown!... or for that matter did u wonder why the hell hrthk had to be dressed as a sculpture when the diamond was kept in the open on a pedestal surrounded by stiff guards who seemed to have blinders on?? he could have just entered the place, picked up the diamond and made a run for it! i mean come onnnn.... you wanna see a cop and robber movie watch ocean's eleven / twelve or something.u'll know what i mean. if all i get to see in a so-called action-thriller is romance and ms designer's clothes ill watch kabhi alvida na kehna on fast forward mode.....though that was another eye sore.dunno how a movie can be made from the perspective of the jerk?!but then that too had designer cklothes and amrika ...ofcourse people liked it.
the point is where is the story?where are the plots? where is the intellegince or emotion one wants to see in these characters we create for our audiences?if only you had written about Dor or Jaaneman or gangster....then i would have to agree ... indian cinema is coming of age...but with Dhoom 2, its in its most immature form, representative, not of the indian youth suffering from western influx (i wish it were when it came to storytelling) or from rootlessness...only from ignorance.
you want to watch good movies - watch the old don, sholay, peecha karo, sarkar, waking ned devine ( did u know priyadarshan copied this in malaamaal weekly), cinema paradiso, godfather 1-2, shawshank redemption, paycheque...all different genres but such great stories...
hope u dont mind this..just voicing my opinion..hoping someone will hear it.
cheers

So this was the movie we should have seen when in India, not Don?
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i wanna watch it badly but in my city it hasn't been released yet...i suppose i'll get to see the chopped version!

the truth be told annoyn no 1., all you say is correct and i dont see it as Indian cinema coming off age. i have mentioned it as Blockbuster cinema coming off age..For some reason critics feel just talkin about movies like Dor and stuff will make for good critique and ignoring mainstream cinema as frivolous. I completely agree with all the fallacies you have mentioned but its a tad bit too much to say that its like KANK on fast forward..i hated KANK and i hope movies like that never get made.. As for Dhoom 2, i accept as a stundent of film studies i am guilty of liking it and for no good reason or rhyme but just for the junk food value it gives (it makes us fat) and may assume that you me get intellectually devoid if you watch such films. however we cant deny that the audience like such hullabo and there is need for considering why so? i completely agree with the western influx and rootlessnes of indian culture, but that probably what indian cinema is an we all have become similar..
For the record i love all the movies you have mentioned later (except KANK) and i wish audience was more sensible like your self..

Oyvind, this is not the movie you should have watched, just as you should'nt have watched Don. you can do with fast and the furious and several other hollywood movies, atleast you would understand wat is being said and done.

Hey,
I must say both of you (Deepshika and Anonymous) have put in your mind while writing the 'review'. I agree partially with both of you! While personally speaking I liked Dhoom 2 for reasons that Deepshika has mentioned...I agree with 'anonymous' on certain fronts. But, at the same time I would like to add up that producing/making any movie means a lot of 'hard work'by the concerned people. And as 'audience' or 'critics' it is quite easy to applaud a movie or criticise it. I agree that in Dhoom 2 some of the questions were unanswered or certain things appeared very unreasonable! But there were 'other' aspects/things that were thought about and dealt with in an 'imaginative' way! Why should all movies fall in the line of 'Dor' or 'Jaaneman'? We sure can have some 'imaginative' scripts...full of sheer entertainment! Not everyone always prefer 'heavy stuff or meaningful stuff'. With the stressful life that people lead today, movies like Dhoom 2 provide them with 'full fledged' entertainment....complete "masala" as one would say! I see no harm in that! This does not mean that we should not have movies like 'Dor' , 'Sholay' etc. We just need to 'have a variety'and let the audience decide what they would like to "Digest"!

nice thoughts, well articulated. Sometimes when some questions are left hanging one should think beyond what director has shown. For eg. how did Hritik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai get in and get out..its answered later in the film. Abhishek Bachhan wanted them to get away so that he could catch em at better place and better time and we audience could get to be entertained for some more time..no harm in that.