Jio Studios and B62 Studios’ Dhoom Dhaam is a comedy about a missing pen drive. Veer Khurana (Pratik Gandhi) and Koyal Chadda (Yami Gautam Dhar) are a mismatched couple who have an arranged marriage. Right on their wedding night, they are forced to go on the run because some people are after their lives for the pen drive.
Aarsh Vora and Aditya Dhar have written a story which has a weak spine. Since the story doesn’t have much inherently, it is stretched so much that it loses steam quite early on. The audience are unable to understand why the honeymooning couple had to take to the streets because all they needed to do was to reach the reception counter of the hotel in which they were celebrating their honeymoon and file a complaint against the persons who had barged into their room. The duo’s screenplay is full of forced comic scenes which hardly make the viewers laugh. After the first about fifteen minutes, the humour quotient drops down so drastically that one has to make an effort to find an occasion to laugh or guffaw. Most of the times, the comedy falls flat on its face — either because it is hardly funny or because it has been stretched so much that by the end of it, the comic element simply disappears. Even the climax fails to have the desired impact. In fact, the last about half an hour of the film irritates because the effort to tickle the funny bone is all too obvious. Aditya Dhar’s dialogues, with additional dialogues by Rishab Seth, are good at places only.
Pratik Gandhi is supremely natural in the role of Veer Poddar, but even he cannot rise above the inane drama. Yami Gautam Dhar does a fair job as Koyal Chadda, but she often tends to go overboard, quite likely because the script lets her down. Pavitra Sarkar (as Bhide) and Eijaz Khan (as Sathe) lend fair support. Kavin Dave is alright as Khushwant Kapoor. Sahil Gangurde (as Mukesh) and Ismail Khan (as Sikka) are so-so. Mukul Chadda (as Sanjay Riberio) is ordinary. Babla Kochar (as Gulshan Chadda) and Neelu Kohli (as Nandini Chadda) have their moments. Saeed Baloch (as the money car driver), Veronica Arora (as Peehu), Dharmesh Vyas (as Vedant Poddar), Nimisha Vakharia (as Suhasini Poddar), Ghanshyam Tilawat (as Panditji), Garima Yajnik (as Kanika), Anand Vikas Potdukhe (as Pradeep), Swapnil Dhongde, Kuldeep Sharma, Kapil Shah, Ashok Kumar, Udit Saini (all five as police constables), Prateik Patil Babbar (as Arya), Mushtaq Khan (as the watchman), Veena Mehta (as the watchman’s wife), Mustafa Ahmed (as Sunny), Tushar Rungta (as the buggy driver), Sanaya Pithawalla (as Suhana), Hardik Soni (as the tea vendor), Karan Mishra (as Vinod), and the others provide fair support.
Rishab Seth’s direction is ordinary. He has not been able to make a very entertaining comedy fare. Shor Police’s (Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes) music is nothing to dance about. Their background music is better than the music. Siddhant Kaushal’s lyrics are average. Siddharth Bharat Vasani’s camerawork is quite nice. Action and stunt scenes have been choreographed by Stefan Richter and Vikram Dahiya, and they go well with the mood of the film. Monica Balsara’s production designing is appropriate. Shivkumar V. Panicker’s editing should’ve been sharper.
On the whole, Dhoom Dhaam is a very ordinary fare. It is good that it has been released directly on OTT as its fate in the cinemas would’ve been pitiable.
Released on 14-2-’25 on Netflix.
