They roped in both Hrithik and Aiswarya, got the latest gadgets and superbikes from Suzuki, bumped up the budget and filmed in exotic locations. It became the duck which laid the golden egg and thus came Dhoom 2. It conveniently came to the aid of the hero and the heroine in the climax! Well, at least we can claim that we saw that 2 years before the same stunt was relived in Fast & Furious 7!Ĭoming to the Dhoom series, the first one was a simple heist film in which the thieves would make their escape in superbikes and it became an unexpected sensation. Their 2013 movie “Race 2” that didn’t have anything to do with the 3 minute horse race sequence in the movie featured an Audi R8 that could deploy parachutes if the vehicle was airborne. In fact, the durability has to do more with Toyota than a ghost because the Taarzan is a redesigned 1991 Toyota MR2. Since the car is possessed, it is autonomous, can ride on water without any modifications and is more durable than a Toyota. His son grows up, modifies his father’s car and it/the father goes on avenging his murderers.
The father is trying to build a perfect car called as DC and gets killed by his enemies. In 2004, another Abbas Mustan movie, “Taarzan: The Wonder Car” came out and the story is that of a father who is reincarnated as his son’s car. Reincarnation has a pan India appeal and has come to the aid of many a scriptwriter facing the writer’s block. It was the coolest car for me until Die Another Day came out and I am not denying it because I watched this movie when a computer was a picture you saw in your textbooks. It was equipped with all the ammunition and gizmos you could find in James Bond’s DB5. He plays a small-time detective and the CBI gives him a convertible with popping headlights out of misunderstanding. The first Abbas Mustan movie that had an “awesome” car was the 1999 Shah Rukh Khan movie “Baadshah”. Take some Hollywood movie, add plot twists which are like weeds that sprout up during the rain and mix thoroughly you get a new Abbas Mustan movie.
Such movies can be easily categorized into two Abbas Mustan movies and Dhoom series. It’s quite a sad thing that we Indians don’t have any particular type of automobile we can associate with and this might be the reason why Indian movies that try to be serious about cars and bikes end up as a spoof of Hollywood action flicks. Bond films are a showcase of British cars and at some point in every Fast & Furious movie, there will be scene were a muscle car takes on a sports car. These are car cultures written deep and often rekindled in popular movies. The Americans have muscle cars, grand-tourers are European, think about Japan and you are reminded about the Toyota Supra and Godzilla.