It’s not because his younger brother cannot pull it off, but because he as the writer/director just could not help not showing off his baby brother! It is great that the Dhawan brothers share such a loving relationship but sadly for Rohit this got in way of his objectivity, as Dishoom is very much a Varun Dhawan fanfare. Having Varun play the daft, dog-saving, simple-minded cop was probably Rohit’s biggest mistake. To ensure he does not get paired with a protocol-following partner who will just get in the way, he decides to hand pick the most daft looking officer in Dubai Police, Junaid Ansari ( Varun Dhawan). Special Task Force officer from Delhi, Kabir ( John Abraham), is tasked with finding India’s ace batman who has been kidnapped, all the while ensuring the public never finds out that the star player is missing.
However when it comes to reviving the entertaining buddy-cop genre which required heartfelt bromance and comedy in oodles, the movie sadly falters. In fact it seems at one point that the older Dhawan brother had set out to give another fellow Rohit a run for his money as the movie delivered one interesting car chase after another. For starters he delivered the action he promised.
But does it really end up doing all these things? Rohit Dhawan’s latest outing, Dishoom, claimed to be riding high on the 90s buddy-cop film nostalgia and promised to be an action-comedy entertainer that is not to be missed. Having grown up on the likes of Sholay, Main Anari Tu Khiladi and Munna Bhai, I could not have been more psyched to hear that the promising director who delivered a very hilarious Desi Boyz in 2011 is all set to regenerate this genre.
I don’t know about you, but I for one have been eagerly waiting for buddy-cop films to come back into the limelight.