Dhoom 2

Once again with Abhishek Bachchan, Rimi Sen and Uday Chopra, join Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai and Bipasha Basu. With the star studded cast, it almost makes you think if someone is going to be underplayed, but it went all good.
Shonali is an ex-classmate of Jai, on a new assignment of catching Mr.A, who has been making impossible burglaries of the most expensive and priceless objects all over the world. Shonali is an expert shooter, while Jai comes up with the pattern of Mr.A's heists.
Jai manages to narrow down to his next attack, but they lose him over the chase. As a challenge to the police, Mr.A provides the world with his next location of attack.
As the force is waiting for him, enters another thief, who uses Mr.A's signature and both of them escape with the loot.
Mr.A discovers the fake A is a gorgeous woman, who can't stop talking, by the name of Sunaheri. She proposes a partnership to work with him. Although A refuses at first, he brings her aboard. Here comes a twist, where Sunaheri comes down to meet Jai to give him information about A. Supposedly she was a thief, who agreed to help the police in exchange for her freedom. Mr.A comes in at the same time to tell her that they are going to Latin America for their next attack.
With the information, Jai and Ali reach the same location. To provide Ali with a love interest, Shonali's twin sister, Monali is introduced as an Indian living in Latin America, who doesn't know Hindi and is quite foreign. She provides slight comic relief with Ali.
As Sunaheri is living with Mr.A, she discovers many of his talents and his name, Aryan. Eventually they trust each other and also fall in love. Aryan finds out about Sunaheri during one of her secret meetings with Jai. He is devastated and emotionally tortures Sunaheri, until she confesses she loves him and they escape together, against Jai. But they are caught and with lure of love, Sunaheri kills Aryan.
6 months later, Sunaheri is running a restaurant with Aryan and Jai comes by to arrest them, but lets them go, as Aryan is not stealing anymore and they just want a normal life.
The movie was all in all, Hrithik's. Great screen presence and acting. Even though most of his stunts were supported by ropes and all secure, they seemed pretty natural. And of course, his dancing was fabulous. He did well as the mystery man. There were good disguises. As soon as I saw the queen's face, I was sure that was what Aryan was going to use to steal the diamond. And his features fit perfectly with the plaster as one of the Greek men along the wall. I would have liked to see how he had escaped from the wall into the cleaner's clothes. Some bits just seemed to be telling that Indian police was too dumb, which was overplayed. Is the power of observation or even noticing present in none other than Jai? The little machine along the floor and not a single person looked at the ground the whole time?? That was an overkill, but oh well..
There wasn't much scope for Aishwarya and I have never been satisfied with her acting. Sometimes, her eyes were just gaping, instead of acting, but if wearing few clothes and providing some glamour was her purpose, then it has been fulfilled well. The type of dance in the movie was not her cup of tea. Although she managed to come along, she wasn't that great.
Bipasha did better in the dancing department, especially in don't touch me, soniya. Again, not much scope for her in the movie either. I thought she would be coming along the movie as an important aide for Jai, but the cop disappeared and some bikini lady came back, who didn't have much comedy scope either.
Abhishek didn't have much to do after the interval. There were intermittent sightings of him. And the few times he seemed around Aryan and Sunaheri in the second half, he seemed to be staring daggers at Hrithik for dancing with Aish (:D). Uday Chopra, like he said in the movie, was nothing much but comic relief in the movie and he didn't have much to perform either.
The excessive English lyrics and dialogues was really a push. Although it was nice to see shades of Hollywood in the movie, it was from Bollywood and it felt like the essence was lost with all the English and Latin influences - especially with the Dhoom 2 title song lyrics. But a good watch for the time and music.