Dhoom’s teaser; teases the wits of the audience

Yash Raj Films (YRF) on Wednesday released a teaser for the much awaited and hyped movie of 2013, Dhoom 3. If people expected something fresh and new, they shut down their systems and clung to their knees rocking back and forth trying to get rid of the clichés that rolled out.

The teaser starts off with music ripped off from the gaming franchise, Need for Speed-Most Wanted and the beats from Evil Dead’s trailer look alike. Aamir Khan walks in shirtless (no names tattooed on his body this time…looks like he finally got an electronic diary) murmuring a shayari which reminds the viewers of ‘Fanaa’. After he is done with that painful ordeal (yes that’s pretty long to bear), the scene cuts to action…after all that is what Dhoom is all about-blowing up stuff and clichéd story lines. Aamir ramps right onto the screen in a BMW R 1300K emphasising more on the bike than on the man riding it: a very clever marketing strategy by BMW to promote its bikes after all.

What is a movie without a helicopter scene? And lo! Yash Raj Films too agree with this, Abhishek Bachchan with his disgruntled look (think Danny Glover of Lethal Weapon saying, “I’m too old for this sh*t) clinging onto a ladder, holding a handgun aiming for Aamir, takes you back to the very same scene in Dhoom 2; the only difference here is that a handgun replaces a sniper (snipers are a bad choice of weapons maybe for long distance targets). It can be noted here that when aiming for the bad guy from 30 feet above, a handgun is as useful as rocks against a tank. Such ingenuity can only be expected from a YRF movie.

And yet again Uday Chopra rushes in, on another BMW bike (not the yellow bike finally); here it is a BMW S1000RR. There is nothing new about his look, the same old expressionless wannabe with aviator glasses and a bandana, rushing to aid his boss, another catastrophe in the works. Dhoom’s oomph factor in this trailer comes in the later half; Katrina Kaif is shown stretching her legs performing an array of gymnastics, kicking up a cloud of dust and miraculously not ending up coughing her guts out.

On the background score, the same old title track of Dhoom plays but with a hint of dubstep in it. Finally, Aamir Khan performs a stunt (not Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikandar style) and manages to skid a bike under a trailer. It would have been mightily impressive if not every action movie, both Hollywood and Bollywood, hadn’t employed it about a dozen times. Ajay Devgn did it ten times at least and even Sunny Deol pulled this off once, a decade ago, before he was lost in the woods of Punjab. The date of release, December 20, 2013 flashes finally unveiling the release date which had been kept under wraps for so long. For some it is a date to wait for with excitement, for others, it is the day when Bollywood cinema enters a new apocalypse.