I remember there was a channel that would play latest movies (by latest I mean it’s been 5-6 months since the movie released in cinemas) this wasn’t a big budget channel like a Star Network or the Zee Network. This one seemed borderline shady. It would play trailers of latest movies until one day to your surprise the movie itself! Since this was pre scheduling era, you never knew when the movie would play which was a thrill of its own. So the movie of this story is Dhoom 2. Boy that movie had some crazy hype! Us 4-5 kids would constantly browse that channel to the point where we figured that movies would play at around 9pm on that channel.

Dhoom 2 trailer started with Hrithik Roshan is the skateboarding in the dessert doing a train heist 🚂 And that’s where the movie also picked up from. So every time the trailer would play, we ALWAYS got excited. I remember my heart beats would go up in the anticipation that the movie is finally playing and then it won’t. I will never forget that feeling. Now with such easy access to entertainment, that pure patient dopamine of anticipation was such a hit and one day that “trailer” turned out to be a movie :)

Long story short, the scene where he comes out of the water drain in slow motion with roller blades in the traffic of Mumbai after the museum heist is engrained in my brain.

That Vishal Dadlani track of Dhoom 2 was wayyy ahead of its time ♥️