Dishoom

Dishoom
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rohit Dhawan
Written by	Story and Screenplay: Rohit Dhawan Tushar Hiranandani Dialogues: Hussain Dalal
Produced by	Sajid Nadiadwala
Starring	John Abraham Varun Dhawan Rahul Dev Parineeti Chopra Jacqueline Fernandez Akshaye Khanna Saqib Saleem
Cinematography	Ayananka Bose
Edited by	Ritesh Soni
Music by	Songs: Pritam Score: Abhijit Vaghani
Production company	Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
Distributed by	Eros International
Release date	29 July 2016 (2016-07-29)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹42 crore[1]
Box office	est. ₹119.58 crore[2]

Dishoom (transl. Bang) is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language buddy cop action comedy film directed by Rohit Dhawan, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, and written by Rohit Dhawan and Tushar Hiranandani. The film stars John Abraham, Varun Dhawan and Jacqueline Fernandez alongside Akshaye Khanna as the antagonist, marking his comeback to acting after a four-year break. Dishoom released worldwide on 29 July 2016.^[3] It was commercially successful at the box office, earning more than 119.58 crore worldwide.

Plot[]

During a cricket tournament in the Middle East, 48 hours prior to the final match between India and Pakistan, India's top cricketer Viraj Sharma (Saqib Saleem) goes missing. Indian authorities get a video tape of an unknown man claiming to have abducted Viraj till the India vs Pakistan cricket match two days later and warning them not to cancel the match. Attempting to avoid media outrage, Gayatri Shubha Mishra (Mona Ambegaonkar), the External Affairs Minister of India, sends special task force officer Kabir Shergill IPS (John Abraham) to U.A.E for a 36-hour manhunt.^[4] After being received by and getting into a semi-scuffle with a local officer, Saeed Naqvi (Tarun Khanna), Kabir, who is a no-nonsense cop, bumps into a rookie Indo-Emirati police officer Junaid Ansari (Varun Dhawan), who has never been able to solve a case but has a good knowledge of the town which he acquired during his first incomplete case of finding a dog named Bradman.

Both Kabir and Junaid start their investigation with a CCTV footage of Viraj's hotel and find out that on the night of his disappearance, Viraj went out with a local girl, Samira Dalal (Nargis Fakhri). On confronting her, they learn that she took Viraj to a friend's birthday party but he left soon. Later, they roam around the town to meet a local goon nicknamed Khabri Chacha (Vijay Raaz) who directs them to Sameer Gazi (Akshay Kumar), the city's biggest party animal who met Viraj in the same party, but are still unable to lay hands on any clue. Finally, the duo gets a breakthrough by tracking down Viraj's cellphone from the apartment of a pick-pocketer, Ishika (Jacqueline Fernandez), who claims to have stolen the cell phone from a stranger, the previous night, in a supermarket. During this time, Junaid finally finds Bradman and vows to never lose track of him, tying a tracker band around his neck, containing a hidden camera. The duo also manages to capture the person in the video, but discovers that he is just a struggling actor being used as the face in the video by the real kidnapper. However, Junaid is shocked when the actor recognizes the "stranger" Ishika had mentioned as the fugitive who conducted his audition, and rubs a sketch clue of evidence out to Kabir, who asks Saeed, Junaid's superior, to identify the stranger.

Meanwhile, it is revealed that the real kidnapper is a cricket bookie Wagah (Akshaye Khanna), who along with his assistant Altaf (Rahul Dev), the stranger, has abducted Viraj and offered him 300 million rupees to under play in the final. They finally close the deal for 500 million. But when the deal didn't work out and Viraj closeted onto them, bluffing an imposterly Wagah into believing he would underplay, they kidnap him permanently till the final match is played. Back in the present, Kabir, a suspended-from-duty Junaid and Ishika go to an underground Arabian club in Altaf's native state Abuddin, full of goons and guns, where Ishika helps Kabir and Junaid by distracting the goons and later Kabir rescues her from them. During the journey, Junaid reveals to Ishika that Kabir suffered from cancer and was cheated by his girlfriend for the same and has lost his smile ever since. Hearing this, Ishika warms up to Kabir, clicking and sending photos of both together while he is still asleep, to his recently turned ex-girlfriend Alishka, with whom he had a breakup. Kabir spots Altaf and both try to chase him down but before they could succeed, a sniper kills Altaf. Wagah calls and confesses to Kabir that he got him killed and they should stop searching for Viraj. Wagah confronts Viraj, threatens to kill his family, shoots both a Mumbai-based partner and his own manager, and asks his wife to leave with their son, finally stranded, with only Bradman, revealed to be their family dog, their family dog by his side.

On returning to Abu Dhabi, Kabir and Junaid are taken off the case and Kabir ordered to fly back to India. Seeing Kabir walk towards the airport , Ishika goes soft and confesses her feelings for Kabir to Junaid. At the 11th hour, Junaid gets a clue of Viraj's whereabout through the camera on Bradman's neck band, as Wagah has hidden him in a yacht near the team's hotel. Both reach the location only to discover that Wagah has fled leaving behind Viraj tied with a time bomb after Wagah realised that Bradman carried a GPS tracker. With only minutes left for the bomb to blast, Kabir negotiates with Wagah to stop the bomb in return of 5 billion rupees from the Indian Government. Wagah takes the money but refuses to stop the bomb. After witnessing the blast from a distance, Wagah walks into the cricket stadium expecting the match to begin without Viraj. But to his shock, Viraj is alive and walks into the ground all ready to play as a parallel flashback reveals Kabir and Junaid helped Viraj to get out of the jacket by dislocating his shoulder and all three had jumped into water just before the blast.

After seeing his plan failed, Wagah tries to run away only to be apprehended by the duo. Kabir, who now has feelings for Ishika, returns to India along with her, while Junaid, who regains his duty, gets a marriage proposal from an Indian girl, Muskaan (Parineeti Chopra) and he also plans to fly to India to meet her.

Cast[]

• John Abraham as Kabir "K" Shergill, an Indian STF officer
• Varun Dhawan as Junaid "J" Ansari, an Indo-Emirati rookie
• Jacqueline Fernandez as Meera Balraj "Ishika" Behl, a pick-pocketer who ends up stealing Viraj's phone
• Akshaye Khanna as Rahul "Wagah" Kabiraj, a bookie who targets Viraj, a top batsman
• Saqib Saleem as Viraj Sharma, a top batsman from India who is targeted and kidnapped by Wagah
• Rashmi Nigam as Mrs. Wagah
• Tarun Khanna as Inspector Saeed Naqvi, a local officer and Kabir's tentative partner who is replaced by his own subordinate Junaid
• Rahul Dev as Altaf Dad, Wagah's protege and assistant
• Mir Sarwar as Hadeed, a weapons trader
• Mansoor as Captain Yusuf Al-Dami, Abu Dhabi Police Chief
• Pawan Chopra as Mishkat Sudhir, BCCI Chief
• Nargis Fakhri as Samira Dalal, a local persona who took Viraj to a friend's birthday party
• Vijay Raaz as Mushtaq "Khabri Chacha" Rizvi, a local goon in Abu Dhabi who directs Kabir and Junaid to Sameer
• Parineeti Chopra as Muskaan Raza Qureshi, a prospective bride who wishes to meet Junaid
• Satish Kaushik as the voice of Arif Qureshi, Muskaan's father
• as Shree, the person in the lift
• as Customs Officer Vishal Sinha, Kabir's former colleague who is shown to have deceived him by having an affair with his girlfriend Alishka
• Anupriya Goenka as Alishka Iyer, Kabir's girlfriend, who turns his ex-girlfriend after being caught cheating on him with Vishal
• Jatin Gaur as Rashid Alvi Farooq, a tech-expert in Abu Dhabi Police
• Faisal Rashid as a fanatical Pakistan supporter
• Mona Ambegaonkar as Gayatri Shubha Mishra, the External Affairs Minister of India
• Akash Dhar as Kasheer, Wagah's Man
• Mohinder Amarnath as Dhananjay Sadanand, Viraj's coach
• Atul Wassan as himself
• Rameez Raja as himself
• Akshay Kumar as Sameer Gazi, a gay party animal and the city's biggest one, who met Viraj in a party (cameo appearance)

Production[]

Filming[]

The first schedule of the film started on June 27, 2015 at Mehboob Studio.^[5] Varun Dhawan and Jacqueline Fernandez joined the set on 4 July 2015.^[6] Abu Dhabi^[7] was also a filming location; the production crew chose Abu Dhabi, as they would benefit from the Emirate's 30% rebate scheme.^[8]

Critical response[]

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 56%, based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10.^[9]

Soundtrack[]

The music for Dishoom is composed by Pritam while lyrics have been penned by Kumaar, Mayur Puri and Ashish Pandit. The music rights have been acquired by T-Series.^[10] The full music album was released on 15 July 2016.^[11]

References[]

External links[]

• Dishoom at IMDb