<p>Netflix’s new romcom, ‘Dhoom Dhaam’, starts off, well, not with great fanfare but with enough fun to hold your attention. An apparently demure Koyal (Yami Gautam) is getting hitched to the genuinely demure ‘vet’ Veer (Pratik Gandhi) in a ‘proper’ arranged marriage, complete with nosy parents, assorted hangers-on and a nosier doggie. Now, you need a certain measure of suspension of disbelief to digest that in this day and age, the to-be-groom and to-be-bride say yes after just one eye-lock. Wait, there’s more. They don’t even go out on a single date after the marriage is fixed and their next meet is on their suhaag raat, both sitting primly on a rose-splattered bed in a hotel. And then there is a knock on the door.</p>.How popular cinema chooses its heroes.<p class="bodytext">Thus begins their crazy run all over Mumbai with bungling goons, fake CIDs and the real police all chasing them, tripping over themselves in search of a mysterious ‘Charlie’. While they run, they get to know each other better, fall out and in love, meet Koyal’s ex (a cute cameo by Prateik Babbar), her stripper friend and several of Veer’s phobias. The fun quotient of the movie goes up and down like a yoyo and the sudden dips into ‘nari shakti’ lectures are jarring. After an hour or so, the pace slacks and the chase gets repetitive. Also, by this time, you have guessed where ‘Charlie’ is. Yami and Pratik have decent chemistry though. Alas, the movie is at best only a timepass.</p>
<p>Netflix’s new romcom, ‘Dhoom Dhaam’, starts off, well, not with great fanfare but with enough fun to hold your attention. An apparently demure Koyal (Yami Gautam) is getting hitched to the genuinely demure ‘vet’ Veer (Pratik Gandhi) in a ‘proper’ arranged marriage, complete with nosy parents, assorted hangers-on and a nosier doggie. Now, you need a certain measure of suspension of disbelief to digest that in this day and age, the to-be-groom and to-be-bride say yes after just one eye-lock. Wait, there’s more. They don’t even go out on a single date after the marriage is fixed and their next meet is on their suhaag raat, both sitting primly on a rose-splattered bed in a hotel. And then there is a knock on the door.</p>.How popular cinema chooses its heroes.<p class="bodytext">Thus begins their crazy run all over Mumbai with bungling goons, fake CIDs and the real police all chasing them, tripping over themselves in search of a mysterious ‘Charlie’. While they run, they get to know each other better, fall out and in love, meet Koyal’s ex (a cute cameo by Prateik Babbar), her stripper friend and several of Veer’s phobias. The fun quotient of the movie goes up and down like a yoyo and the sudden dips into ‘nari shakti’ lectures are jarring. After an hour or so, the pace slacks and the chase gets repetitive. Also, by this time, you have guessed where ‘Charlie’ is. Yami and Pratik have decent chemistry though. Alas, the movie is at best only a timepass.</p>