Movie: DUM MAARO DUM
Cinema Release: 22 April 2011
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar (son of Bollywood actor Raj Babbar and late Bollywood actress Smita Patil), Aditya Pancholi, Rana Daggubati, Deepika Padukone (special appearance)
Director: Rohan Sippy
Genre: Gangster Thriller
Country: India (Bollywood)

Website: http://www.dummaarodum.com/

Trailer: DUM MAARO DUM

Looks quite decent this one, is the soundtrack out yet?

Ali

Ali - don't think soundtrack is out just yet, but the whole cast were at the India-SA match yesterday to 'launch the title track' - is there anywhere these people won't go to promote a film?!?!

As for the film, I'm looking forward to this, as it's written by Shridhar Raghavan, so hopefully should be good.

Soundtrack is out now.. bit a of miss, not a patch on Bluffmaster.

I read the film is take on UK Channel 4 mini dramas series Traffik - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096716/ (remade as Traffic by Steven Soderbergh http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/ )

Ali

Disappointing IMHO:(

I saw Dum Maaro Dum promo of the title song. It's so bad, I'm surprised that they are using it instead of hiding it.

The 'Bluffmaster' soundtrack was outstanding and this one is most definately not even a patch on that. As for the title song, don't even get me started on that one. This version is an embarassment to the classic 'Dum Maaro Dum' by R.D. Burman and Asha Bhonsle. To make matters worse, the idiots involved in cooking up this crap, actually have the nerve to state that their version has turned out to be actually superior to the original classic. Talk about a bunch of arrogant and tasteless morons.

Would not waste my time even winking at this -

Another atrocity is jaanbaz song in that dud akshay flick:(

Abishek should encourage John(Dostana) to do more roles with him

I just finished watching this - and for my money, this is not only Rohan Sippy's best achievement yet, but probably one of the year's best hindi film.

There's something to be admired about a film that attest to limited time and space - and Dum Maaro Dum's Goa-trotting allows for some interesting uses of place in relation to character. Sippy's portrait of Goa is fantastic(here, one wishes this could have been on a better produced DVD other than what Moserbaer trashes out. In which case, we can rule out a superior product on Bluray). But Sippy's accomplishments here are quite evident.

There is a level of conscious acknowledgement of the format that lead to some beautiful results. The festivals, and night bazar's are the most blatant examples of noir lighting - the piercing colours and shadows are Sippy's form of expressionism(colour often replaces the staple shadow in noir technique); visual ques of the film's final moments of frenzy. Not to mention the rave scenes, the lights that luminate into the sky, the towering plam trees and shots of the entire night life from high above.

Managed to watch this few days ago, really good movie, share DVD Collector sentiments above.

Ali