![]() ![]() In the Not Exactly Chopped Meat category are second-generation Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan (Rai's hubby and one half of India's own Brangelina), Uday Chopra as his top-heavy, Jimmy Fallon-like sidekick, and former model Bipasha Basu as the B-plot love interest. The most expensive Hindi movie made at the time, Dhoom 2 pulls out all the stops by mixing state-of-the-Bollywood special effects, absurd action sequences, eye-popping musical numbers, broad comedy, sexy outfits, shameless product placement, smoldering glances, and two of the most beautiful humans to ever fight, pout, or dance their way across the screen, Hrithik Roshan Designed to appeal to the broadest possible demographic (kids, parents, grandparents, uncles, the family goldfish), they follow the maxim of "more is more." Or in the case of a big-budget action-comedy-musical-romance like Dhoom 2 (2006), "more is lots more." Got a kitchen sink? Go ahead, toss that in, too-maybe someone will need to wash up. Having seen only half a dozen or so, I'm hardly an expert, but one thing I've learned is to toss out my assumptions about what a movie should be the moment I start watching. You don't go into them expecting realism and subtlety. ![]()
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