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‘Dhoom’ is full of suspense
The Hindi movie ‘Dhoom’ with fast bikes and big action, is now being shown at Liberty cinema, Colombo. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Uday Chopra, Esha Deol and Rimii Sen and its director is Sanjay Gadhvi. Yash Chopra is producer and Music is by Pritam.

The tale begins in Bombay where a sophisticated gang of robbers is sweeping through the city, giving nightmares to the police department. Their modus operandi is modelled on a twister. The high point of these robberies is always the getaway of the robbers on their hi-tech bikes - the slickest, meanest and the fastest riding machines on the road.

Jai Dixit (Abhishek Bachchan), a top, honest police officer is brought in on the case. Soon he is on the trail of the robbers - a gang headed by Kabir (John Abraham) - an evil perfectionist with an attitude. Kabir and his gang transform into inconspicuous pizza delivery boys after their unholy missions are accomplished.

So brilliant is their metamorphosis that no one suspects them of being the same wicked robbers who don their helmets and commit these daring robberies in blissful anonymity. Initially daunted by the speed and mannerisms of the gang, Jai ropes in the services of Ali (Uday Chopra), a happy-go-lucky garage mechanic and a prodigious bike rider.

Ali is very different to Jai - where Jai is serious, Ali is flippant, casual. The two don’t get along and Jai hates him at first but soon realizes that the clown can ride bikes like the wind and decides to team up with him to try and bring the robbers to justice.

Ali, the reluctant recruit and Jai stakeout the thieves and set up an ambush. But, Kabir soon catches up on Jai-Ali’s teaming up and his arrogance pushes him to take up the challenge openly.

And so starts the hunt, where sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted. Jai and Ali find their various attempts thwarted, as the gang keeps slipping from their grasp. Could it be that no one can catch them?

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