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Dhaam Dhoom and the Bourne thrillers |
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| Behindwoods
Movie Review Board |
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The
first thing that strikes you about the Dhaam Dhoom trailer
is that it feels like a Hollywood thriller. We’ve seen
spectacular stuff in the Dasavatharam thriller, for instance,
but you still know it is an Indian spectacle. Dhaam Dhoom
looks like something out of the Bourne trilogy. The pace and
editing and even its very atmospheric European background
resembles something out of, say, The Bourne Supremacy. Jayam
Ravi and Kangana Ranaut (who makes her Tamil debut here) are
on the run – chases, shootouts, and narrow escapes follow.
All those elegant, stately buildings in Moscow, Prague and
St. Petersburg that form the film’s background add to
the texture of Dhaam Dhoom as a slick, pulsating, classy Kollywood
thriller.
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Jeeva’s
lighting for many of the scenes look wonderfully atmospheric
and classy. Director Jeeva made use of Australia so
inventively in Unaale Unaale, and we are certain that
he must have outdone himself here, shooting in so many
exciting, legendary locations. Prague, for instance,
has become immortal as a cinema city because of that
classic post war thriller, The Third Man, directed by
Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Orson
Welles. We have a feeling that in his choice of Prague,
Jeeva, having been a passionate film buff, must have
been inspired by The Third Man in the way that nearly
every filmmaker in the world has been.
The only thing missing in the trailer are the parts
set in the village. We've all seen how evocatively Jeeva
shoots city landscapes. But we haven't yet seen what
his cinematography will do for village landscapes. That's
one surprise waiting for us in Dhaam Dhoom. |
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