I had decided to keep all work on hold after yesterday's MIP 2 Presentation, and watch Dhoom.  And sure enough, I did watch the movie last night, and enjoyed it!

The movie begins with a robbery of an armoured car by a band of thieves who use fast bikes to make quick getaways.  Soon, cop Jai Dikshit (Abhishek Bachchan) is on the case, and at first he suspects that Ali (Uday Chopra) may have something to do with the crime.  Ali owns a garage and fixes and sells bikes — and has been involved in some shady dealings in the past.  But as it turns out, the crimes are committed by an independent gang, using souped-up state of the art bikes.  Eventually, the cop and Ali team up to catch the bad guys, headed by the smooth professional Kabir (John Abraham).  The movie also stars Rimii Sen (as Jai's wife Sweety), and Esha Deol.

I must say that this movie exceeded my expectations.  It is a very slickly edited and photographed action movie, with lots of style (cool opening sequence, and a terrific first scene).  There is not much of a story, but even at a length of two hours, I never found the movie boring.  I liked the music and the songs as well.  One fight in particular is inspired from moves that we all saw previously in The Matrix Reloaded, but otherwise Dhoom stands on its own as a very entertaining action movie.

There are a couple more things I want to say but seeing as I have to be in a class in five minutes (it's 11:45 AM now), I will reserve them for the next post.