This was incredibly bad

Dhoom 3 is utter crap. It's worse than laughably bad because laughing implies some kind of entertainment value. The story is a pathetic mish-mash of well known Hollywood plots, the Jai and Ali characters make me cringe every time they're on screen, the action scenes are fake and awful and the acting is really bad across the board. It's insulting to Indians that this movie is one of the best-performing movies of all time at the Indian box office. Seriously, it makes Indians look stupid and juvenile, and that's not true.

Instead, I lay the blame with Aditya Chopra primarily and also Aamir Khan and Vijay Krishna Acharya (the director). Aditya Chopra, head of Yash Raj Films which made this movie, marketed this film massively prior to release. He likely promised Aamir a percentage share in the revenues or profit. Both Aamir and Aditya Chopra are businessmen first and filmmakers later, they both smelled the moolah and forged ahead, despite a shoddy, idiotic script and a crappy director. Wouldn't you know it, given the box office results, they were mostly right.

Aamir is still living off the goodwill from Lagaan. Lagaan was an incredible film, possibly one of the best Indian films in 50 years, in that it combined both artistic appeal and mass sentiment. In the years since, he made the insufferably boring Mangal Pandey, the boring and bad Fanaa, the awful cesspool of plagiarism which was Ghajini, another super boring film in Dhobi Ghat and the massively idiotic Talaash. Taare Zameen Par was not terrible but it was awkwardly moralistic. And he did make two good films: 3 Idiots and PK (both more due to Raju Hirani than Aamir). On the sum of things, I say Aamir's credit has run out, especially since Dhoom 3 was much worse than Ghajini (which I didn't think would be possible).