He is a bit of a wet blanket, cautious to the point of being boring. She is a firebrand and a loose canon indiscreet to the point of being self-ruinous. And it is their suhaag raat when …well, all hell breaks loose.
In summation itself, Dhoom Dhaam on Netflix sounds like fun with a gun on the run. And it is! Sprightly, gamely, prankish, and faithfully wedded to levity, this is the kind of you-won’t-believe-what-happened-last-night adventures that have us holding on to our seats.
The episodic antics of Veer and Koyal are written with some leeway for intelligence. Often, such madcap adventures use zaniness as an excuse to plaster the narration with icky abomination. Dhoom Dham remains steadfast in its search for a refined caper. This could be a cleaned-out Anurag Kashyap flick, but it’s a lot funnier than what we see in the so-called dark comedies.
Pratik Gandhi and Yami Gautam share an agreeable discordant chemistry. Let me explain: to muster up such a wealth of irreconcilable differences between their characters, the two actors have to be truly bonded far beyond the script before plunging into their role-play.
Yami leads the show, and it is sporting of Pratik to let her take him to areas of onscreen adventure that involves a whole lot of running, hiding, screaming and scuffling. These are distinctly physical roles which require more performing skills from its protagonists than it would outwardly seem. Yami and Pratik are first-rate, as are the firecracker and the nerd, respectively.
Some of their throwaway lines had me rolling with laughter.
Explaining why Veer, a veterinarian, is a vegetarian, he says, “I can’t eat my patients, no?”
Then there is this entire chunk of narration about doggie poop which overstays its welcome. But such idle interludes are rare in this crackerjack romp-com where the actors talk, run, talk, run without getting repetitive.
Dhoom Dham may not be a great work of cinema. It doesn’t aspire to be. It is a pell-mell crazy adventure of two newlyweds discovering things about themselves and each other while dodging bullets and bedlam. Hands down, or shall I say pants down, the highlight of the show is Pratik Gandhi’s strip act with dozens of cheering women urging him to take off his clothes. And he does it with coolth.
Pratik has just discovered an alternative career for himself.
