Dhoom Dadakka starts off with a don searching for an heir so that he can keep his area of dominance. Don Mungilal (Anupam Kher) has been asked to show his heir by the head of group of Asian dons Godfather (Jackie Shroff) within a month. Or else, his area Alibaug would go to another don (Gulshan Grover).

Mungilal gets to know that his sister Angoori had a kid after he broke contacts with her when she wanted to get married to someone he didn’t like. And he goes to India to find Kamal – his nephew. And by the time he reaches back to Bangkok, he gets three people all claiming to be his sister’s kid – Shivani Sawant (Aarti Chhabria), Rahul (Shaad) and Ranbir (Sammir). In comes Jiya (Shama Sikandar) to help his love Ranbir. In the meantime, Anupam Kher figures out a way to get the reality out as to who is the real nephew or niece. Somewhere in between, he finds a liking for them. In between a lot of chaos, Rahul and Ranbir help Mungilal get Alibaug back. Lot of unwanted emotions have been put into the movie, which is already forcefully filled with comic elements.

The story is pretty silly and the script goes around making it worse.

If that was not enough, the film is filled up with an overdose of double meaning dialogues to add to the comedy. Also, too many characters don’t add anything to the story. It almost looked like the director did a favour for most of the actors by giving them a chance.

While the story and over the top dialogues tire you out, you hardly feel any difference towards the cinematography and editing. Those are no good anyway. Same goes with the playback or background score. All mere adds up to the pain. Also, there are too many loose ends. For example the Godfather’s chapter is closed rather abruptly. The same goes with Mungilal’s sister’s chapter.

Performance wise, Anupam Kher would do good to start giving thought to the type of movies he does. This movie hardly offers him anything more than being a caricature. The rest of the cast looks helpless too in front of the script.

Overall, Shashi Ranjan fails terribly as a director. Movie making is not a game of whims. And comedy is a serious business and needs to be treated like one. Dhoom Dadakka fails in all accounts. It’s painful and tiring rather than entertaining.

Cast: Anupam Kher, Satish Shah, Sammir Dattani, Shaad Randhawa, Aarti Chhabria, Shama Sikandar, Gulshan Grover, Zac, Satish Kaushik

Director/ Producer: Shashi Ranjan