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Dum Maro Dum

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Director           Rohan Sippy
Cast                 Abhishekh Bachchan, Rana Daggubatti, Bipasha Basu, Pratiek Babbar, Govind Namdeo, Anaitha Nair, Aditya Panscholi, Bugs Bhargava, Vidya Balan, Gulshan Devaiya
Year                2011
Genre              Action

That Abhishek Bachchan will live in the shadow of Yuva for the rest of his life and continue to try and benchmark himself to that level is a foregone conculsion in any of his movies.  But to his credit this time around, he does give you some glimpses of the intensity that he showed in his best performance to date.  Hope Floats for all your fans of the Jr. B (count me out of that list for the time being).  After Game I thought it was all over folks.  It was definitely time to get the fat lady in.

What makes his performance look better than what it actually is the sheer presence of John Abraham’s ex who has this innate capability of making anyone look better on screen.  If there was a plastic meter for performances on screen then Bipasha Basu would have scored 12 on 10.  And then you also wonder what Rohan Sippy was thinking when he cast Aditya Panscholi.  Definitely a case of the ex Mr. Zareena Wahab (whats with these exes?) having put in money into the production.

And then there is rest of the cast led by Tollywood hero Rana Daggubatti who manages to hold his own in his Bollywood debut.  Pratiek (without the Babbar) is sincere, but as always seems to have tried really hard to make things look as real has he possibly can.  The saving grace in the acting department is however the natural, ice cold performance from Govind Namdeo who comes out on tops once again. 

Dum Maro Dum revolves around the elusive Michael Barbossa aka Vincent Vega aka Colin Coutinhon aka Tobby Follet who is the savior of the drug mafia in Goa.  Whenever the narcotics business in Goa starts to take a beating, Barbossa or one of his avatars comes in to save business which is primarily led by Lorsa Biscuita (Aditya Panscholi).  But Barbossa’s days are about to be numbered when the Home Minster Ponda (Bugs Bharagava) calls on ex-cop ACP Vishnu Kamat (Jr. B) to clean up the state.  In his previous assignments related to narcotics, ACP Kamat was notorious for maximizing his personal wealth.  But he loses it when his family dies in a car crash.  Poetic justice because the drivers of the other car were high on drugs.  He picks his own team – Rane (Govind Namdeo) and Mercy (Gulshan Devaiya) to help him.  His first breakthrough happens when he manages to foil Lawrence Eduardo Gomes aka Lorry (Pratiek) who is forced to become a carrier to pay his fees for a US University.  All poor Lorry wanted to do was to be with his girl, Tani (Anaitha Nair) who gets through to the same uni with a 100% scholarship.  Lorry’s close friend Joaquim aka DJ Joki (Rana) tries to convince him to come clean and even manages to strike a deal with ACP Kamath but Lorry chickens out and Joki’s only chance to get back @ Biscuita goes abegging.  You see Biscuita has stolen Joki’s girl i.e. Zoe (Bipasha Basu) in the same manner as Lorry manages to get himself into jail. All these characters try to solve the big mystery – Who is Barbossa???

Poorly written dialogues are the bane of DMD which could have been a much better movie than it turned out.  Lines such as “Moscow ke DJ tyaon tyaon aur pussycats meow meow.  Live FTV no censor” and “Barbossa ka pata chahiye.  Baaki sab ke liye google hai” and “MC ya BC? Middle Class ya Business Class”.  I mean what was Rohan Sippy thinking? He didn’t have Rajanikant to carry these lines off right?  Pritam’s music continues to be heavily and now obviously “inspired” and inspid. Rohan Sippy still tries his best to keep the movie racy enough for you not to get bored.  Would have expected better coz this one doesn’t come upto the previous mark he set with Bluff Master.  The random use of Konkani words fall flat.  As a good friend says, “That’s the magic of it all.  You aren’t Goan till you are Goin man”. Overall a below average effort.  4 on 10 is my final verdict.  Was tempted to give it a point more but nah.  Not happening. 

Watch the trailer on http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2560597273/
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