In the climax—which is not in the original index—they trapped Kabir inside a giant spinning disco ball while dressed as Bollywood backup dancers. Kabir, dizzy and defeated, signed over his entire fortune.
They tore the index in half. For the first time, they improvised. They kidnapped Kabir’s beloved parrot. They faked a wedding between Boman and a blow-up doll. They created new scenes: Scene 13: The Parking Lot of Idiocy. Scene 14: The Revenge of the Masseurs.
“An index is just a promise. The real story happens in the margins.”
They framed the torn, soaked, scribbled-on index and hung it in their new office. Under it, Roy had written: index of double dhamaal
“No,” said Adi (Javed Jaffrey), pulling it out. “It’s a map. It just doesn’t show the cliffs.”
Prologue: The Case of the Missing Index
“This index is a liar!” he shouted.
Kabir, their former boss and a man whose mustache twitched with villainy, had just swindled a diamond merchant. The index reminded them: “Enter through the servant’s gate. Pretend to be masseurs.”
The index’s middle pages were stained with tea and regret. “Scene 4: The Casino. Double or Nothing.”
“Look,” he said, pointing to the final Roman numeral: “Scene 12: The Cliffside Chase. Kabir wins.” In the climax—which is not in the original
This was the trap. The index, they realized too late, was not a plan—it was a record of what had already happened in the film’s script. It was destiny written in advance. In Macau, they met the twin sisters (Mallika Sherawat’s characters, Kiara and Bijli). The index said: “Trust the twins. They are your allies.”
“Then we don’t play Scene 12,” said Roy.
The index began, as all their disasters did, with a dream. The five friends, having already blown their last fortune from Dhamaal , sat in a crumbling garage. The index’s first entry read: “Scene 1: Kabir’s Mansion. The Opium of Greed.” For the first time, they improvised
The twins were not allies. They were Kabir’s secret protégés. The index had led them to a betrayal so perfect that Manav (Arshad Warsi) threw the paper into a hotel pool.
The final shot of the film, as per the original index, was a freeze-frame of the five friends laughing on a yacht. But in their new reality, they did something better.