Dum Maaro Dum (film)

Dum Maaro Dum
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRohan Sippy
Written byDialogues:
Shridhar Raghavan
Charudutt Acharya
Purva Naresh
Screenplay byShridhar Raghavan
Story byShridhar Raghavan
Produced byRamesh Sippy
StarringAbhishek Bachchan
Bipasha Basu
Rana Daggubati
Aditya Pancholi
Prateik Babbar
Govind Namdeo
CinematographyAmit Roy
Edited byAarif Sheikh
Music bySongs:
Pritam
Background Music:
Midival Punditz
Karsh Kale
Production
companies
Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
Louverture Films
Cheyenne Enterprises
Distributed byFox Star Studios
Release date
  • 22 April 2011 (2011-04-22)
Running time
130 minutes[1]
CountriesIndia
United States
LanguageHindi
Budget₹310 million (US$3.7 million)
Box office₹511 million (US$6.1 million)[2]

Dum Maaro Dum (transl. Hit a puff) is a 2011 Hindi-language action thriller film[3][4] directed by Rohan Sippy and starring Abhishek Bachchan and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles, with Rana Daggubati, Prateik Babbar and Aditya Pancholi in supporting roles. The film is a co-production between India and the United States and was shot in Goa. Deepika Padukone makes a special appearance in the remix version of the hit song of the same title.[5] The music has been composed by Pritam. It became the first Indian film to have its soundtrack mixed in Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound.[6]

Jump Games, an Indian mobile video game developer, also released a platformer based on the film.[7]

  1. ^ "Dum Maaro Dum". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  2. ^ "2011 Worldwide Figures: Twenty Films Cross 50 Crore". Box office India. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Abhishek Bachchan on playing Inspector Kamath". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 8 February 2011. If the first theatrical trailer of Rohan Sippy's gritty action thriller, Dum Maaro Dum, is any indication, then it seems like Abhishek Bachchan is set to become Bollywood's new angry young man. Like his father Amitabh Bachchan, the actor too will feature in 'physical' fight sequences.
  4. ^ "In action". The Tribune. Retrieved 28 May 2010. Directed by Rohan Sippy, Dum Maaro Dum is an action-thriller with Abhishek playing a fearless cop.
  5. ^ "Deepika Padukone to sizzle on Dum Maaro Dum track". Bollywood Hungama. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  6. ^ "Dum Maaro Dum in Dolby Surround 7.1". Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  7. ^ Dum Maaro Dum. dedomil.net.