Vijay said, “Personally I’ve always been fascinated by museums, a sense of history and one feels transported in time. He then mentioned the diamond robbery sequence set in the museum where Hrithik’s character poses as a statue while he patiently manoeuvres a remote-controlled car to execute the heist.

It also sets up the thief as someone who is after rarities, a connoisseur.” A train hurtling down the Namibian desert. Of course, the sequence would not have been the same if it didn’t have the sense of speed. It felt audacious at the time to see if we could pull off Hrithik as an old lady with a fortune. The writer shared the idea behind the robbery as he said, “Aryan’s character in ‘Dhoom 2’ was supposed to be someone who leads an almost invisible life, and he can do that because he’s a master of disguise.”Įxplaining further, he stated how a brave choice of transforming Hrithik‘s character into an old lady, led to one of the most iconic action sequences of Hindi cinema, “The first heist was planned as emblematic of this aspect of Aryan. One of the fans wrote, “Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai gave Bollywood its slickest, sexiest bad guys.Vijay deconstructed three key action sequences from the film starting with the great train robbery. Remembering the film 15 years down the lane, fans shared film scenes and songs on Twitter. Audience were swept off their feet by Hrithik’s uber-cool and Aishwarya’s extra sulty looks. The film became the highest grossing Indian film of 2006.įans loved the online chemistry of Hrithik and Aishwarya, who underwent drastic transformation for their roles.

The film had hit the theatres on November 24, 2006. John Abraham was seen as a thief in the first instalment, while Hrithik in the second. The plot revolved around these two cops chasing the thieves. The Dhoom franchise was started in 2004 with Abhishek as ACP Jai Dixit and Uday Chopra as his assistant. Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra had reprised their roles as buddy cops Jai Dixit and Ali Khan, respectively. Dhoom 2 has been trending on social media since morning. Fans celebrated the special day on social media, and made it a trend on Twitter in no time.

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