Dum (2003 Tamil film)

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Dum
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Directed by A. Venkatesh
Written byPrasanna Kumar (dialogues)
Story by Puri Jagannadh
Based on Appu (Kannada)
Produced by Rockline Venkatesh
Starring Silambarasan
Rakshitha
Ashish Vidyarthi
Cinematography A. Venkatesh
Edited by V. T. Vijayan
Music by Deva
Production
company
Rockline Productions
Release date
  • 13 April 2003 (2003-04-13)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Dum is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language romantic action comedy film directed by A. Venkatesh. It is a remake of the 2002 Kannada film Appu . [1] The film stars Silambarasan and Rakshita (in her Tamil debut, reprising her role from original) while Ashish Vidyarthi and S. S. Rajendran play pivotal roles.

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Plot

Satya is the son of a police constable. He gets into fights and ends up in jail where his father gets him out on bail. While he is returning home from a party drunk, a group of college students beat him up. That is when Suchitra comes and takes him to the hospital and donates blood. She is the daughter of a police commissioner. Later, Satya falls in love with Suchitra. That leads to several problems which are faced bravely by Satya in the later part of the film. Finally, all goes well, and Satya also receives the letter confirming his selection for IPS.

Cast

Production

The film was initially set to be titled Idiot after the Telugu version, but the title was later changed. [2] A. Venkatesh remade the film from Puri Jagannadh's 2002 Kannada film Appu , which was also remade in Telugu in 2002 as Idiot . Venkatesh was keen to cast Kiran Rathod, but later selected Rakshita, who appeared in all three versions of the film. [3] During the making of the film, Silambarasan did his own stunts including a risky jump from the fifth floor of a building. [4] This was the first Tamil film to be produced by Rockline Venkatesh. The filming was held at Chennai and Bangalore while the songs were shot at Japan, China, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Thailand. [5]

Soundtrack

There are eight songs composed by Deva, while Sabesh–Murali handled the background score. The songs Chanakya, Polladha Padava, Manase are reused from the original Telugu film. The song "Chanakya Chanakya" was sampled by Bulgarian pop-folk singer Emilia in her song "Ti si mi". Lyrics written by Pa. Vijay and Kabilan.[ citation needed ]

SongSingersLyrics
"Adra Adra Dum" Silambarasan, Sabesh Silambarasan
"Chanakya Chanakya" Sadhana Sargam Pa. Vijay
"Kalakuven Kalakuven" I Shankar Mahadevan Vaali
"Kalakuven Kalakuven" IISilambarasan
"Kannamma Kannamma" Udit Narayan, Anuradha Sriram Kabilan
"Karuppo Sivappo"SilambarasanPa. Vijay
"Manase Manase" Hariharan
"Polladha Padava" Mahalakshmi Iyer, KK

Release and reception

Dum was a hit at the box office. [6]

Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote makers made masala by fooling fans without caring about logic while panning the lead hero's character design calling it wrong heroism and concluded saying it does not matter if cinema does not do good to the society, there is no need to do bad things like this. [7] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote the film had "a racy screenplay, a fast-paced narration, non-stop action that leaves no room for lagging moments. All going to assure that 'Dum' makes for some compelling viewing for the youth and action lovers." [8]

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