It is pure automotive mayhem in Shah Rukh Khan’s Dilwale trailer

He may be better when it comes to song and dance extravaganzas, but, otherwise, Rohit Shetty could very well be the Michael Bay of Bollywood. Both directors has a blatant disregard for Newton’s Laws of Motion, has a penchant for blowing stuff up in the most spectacular way possible, and go out of their way to turn anything on two wheels to sensual objects, the kind of things you spend agonising dreams after. But where Michael Bay has firmly hitched his name to the General Motors bandwagon, with an occasional smattering of the odd Italian or German supercar here and there, Rohit Shetty has shown his affinity for Mahindra & Mahindra’s SUVs in the past.

In the new trailer for Dilwale, releasing on 18th December, though, it is no-holds-barred action, and we seem poised to see a bevy of exoticas blown up and generally being driven in ways we’d not advise unless you have been a cast member of the Fast and Furious franchise at one point or the other. 

Being advertised heavily as the movie that will once again bring together the beloved duo of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, five years after their last outing in My Name is Khan, Dilwale has all the trappings of a Rohit Shetty movie from the looks of the trailer. Extravagant set pieces, testosterone-fueled actors, gratuitous shots of models and dancers of both sexes, albeit all wrapped together in a comedic, family-friendly package.

And cars, lots of cars. There’s a BMW M3 doing donuts on an abandoned lighthouse, precisely the same way it did in that BMW M4 commercial aboard an aircraft carrier. There’s a Mercedes-Benz SLK and a Porsche Boxster spinning round and round on a mountain road as though they were on glass, precisely the same way an Audi TT and a Porsche 911 spun round and round on a mountain course as though they were on glass, in Mission: Impossible 2. 

There’s also a Bentley Flying Spur doing the still-cool 360-degree spin thing, a Bullitt-green Ford Mustang, a Dodge Viper, the inevitable yellow Hummer H3, and that’s just for starters. When the item song breaks out, all hell breaks loose, car-wise. 

You can watch it all for yourself here.

Co-produced by Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment and Rohit Shetty Productions, Dilwale also co-stars Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon Boman Irani, Sanjay Mishra, Johnny Lever, and Varun Sharma, along with all these exotics. We aren’t sure about the quality of the movie, but it sure seems like an couple of good hours to do some celluloid car-spotting. Pass the popcorn, please.