‘Dhoom Dhaam’ review: A low-key blast of chaos

Chaos and comedy fit together snugly – this truism held for Rishab Seth’s witty demonetisation send-up Cash (2021) and keeps his new movie from being a damp squib.

The Hindi-language Dhoom Dhaam is the potentially explosive meeting of incompatible states: a fake blushing bride and a genuinely inhibited groom, the expectations from an arranged marriage versus the realities of it. The nuptials between Koyal (Yami Gautam Dhar) and Veer (Pratik Gandhi) proceed per plan, but little else does.

Even before the couple can get to know each other, Sathe (Eijaz Khan) and Bhide (Pavitra Sarkar) barge in, waving guns and demanding the handover of Charlie. In the pursuit of Charlie, Koyal and Veer will hop into and off trains and automobiles.

Veer will learn things about Koyal that were not apparent to him. Koyal will find out more about Veer, a veterinarian who is vegetarian because he refuses to eat his patients.

There is enough sharp humour in Dhoom Dhaam, which is out on Netflix, to qualify as a comedy. More entertaining than Koyal’s true side is what Veer’s buttoned-up persona reveals. The couple’s experience, which takes place…

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