
Dhoom 3
- Director
- Vijay Krishna Acharya
- Studio
- Yash Raj Films
- Release Date
- 19 December 2013
- Running Time
- 172 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹100.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹556.74 Cr
Review
Rohit Shetty's *Dhoom 3* is a film that mistakes spectacle for substance and somehow gets away with it—at least commercially. The premise itself is intriguing: a man uses a circus as a front for elaborate bank heists across Chicago, seeking revenge for his father's destroyed livelihood. But Shetty bludgeons this genuinely compelling setup with bloated action sequences, incomprehensible logic, and a twin-brother twist so contrived it makes you wonder if the screenplay was written by someone who'd never encountered the concept of subtlety. Aamir Khan delivers what amounts to a magician's performance—all flourish, minimal depth—while Abhishek Bachchan sleepwalks through his role as the detective, and Katrina Kaif exists primarily to look concerned and occasionally perform acrobatics. The film runs nearly three hours and wastes nearly all of it on CGI circuses and chase sequences that prioritize noise over narrative coherence.
What rankles most is that Shetty had the bones of something interesting here. A heist film rooted in emotional motivation, a protagonist driven by justified anger rather than cartoonish villainy—these elements could have anchored a genuinely smart thriller. Instead, we get a film so in love with its own visual excess that it forgets to develop character, tension, or logic. The twin brother reveal doesn't clarify the plot; it obliterates what little credibility remained. Technical filmmaking aside, *Dhoom 3* is a masterclass in mistaking budget for quality,
Storyline
So basically, this guy Sahir's father owned a circus in Chicago back in 1990, but the bank forced him to close it down and he couldn't handle the loss. Fast forward to 2013, and Sahir decides to get revenge by systematically robbing branches of that same bank. The cops are totally stumped, so they call in this Indian detective named Jai to help crack the case.
Here's where it gets interesting – Sahir actually reopens the circus and recruits this acrobat named Aaliya to help him out. While pretending to be an informant helping Jai, Sahir is actually just feeding him false information to keep him off the trail. During one of the robberies, Jai manages to shoot Sahir in the shoulder, but then something weird happens that completely throws everyone off.
When the circus has its big grand opening, Sahir performs this mind-blowing teleportation act that leaves everyone amazed. But here's the twist – when the cops finally catch up with him and check his body, there's no bullet wound anywhere! Turns out Sahir has an autistic twin brother named Samar who's been helping him orchestrate everything the whole time, and it was actually Samar who got shot during the robbery. Now Jai's off the case, but he's determined to prove that Sahir's guilty, so he decides to work on his own to uncover the truth.



