Review : Dishoom

Rohit Dhawan's second directorial film Dishoom is being touted as an action-adventure film. Featuring John Abraham, Varun Dhawan and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead, the film narrates the story of two cops who are on a mission to rescue Indian cricket team's star player who has been kidnapped.

Plot :

Indian team’s best batsman Viraj Sharma (Saqib Saleem) gets kidnapped in Abu Dhabi 36 hours before the India – Pak final. At first, it seems to be a handiwork of a fanatic Paki fan, but later we find out the matter is much more serious than that. The Minister of External Affairs (Mona Ambegounkar channelling Smriti Irani) sends India’s finest cop, Kabir (John Abraham) to find him out. In Dubai, he teams up with a rookie cop Junaid (Varun Dhawan), and together they follow several leads to get on to the kidnapped cricketer and the man behind the disappearance. But they have to do all that before the final of the match. In the process, they also taken in a pretty thief Meera (Jacqueline Fernandez) on the ride and face a dangerous adversary in Akshaye Khanna.

Positives :

• John Abraham and Varun Dhawan’s bromance

• fancy boy toys such as FJ Cruisers, speed boats

• drone based action sequences.

• Music

• Performance of the entire star cast

Negatives :

• low on content

• Laden with cliches, this script is poor