Dhol (film)

Dhool
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Priyadarshan
Produced by	Satish Kaushik
Screenplay by	Manisha Korde
Starring	Sharman Joshi Tusshar Kapoor Kunal Khemu Rajpal Yadav Tanushree Dutta Om Puri
Music by	Pritam Chakraborty Gopi Sunder (BGM)
Cinematography	Piyush Shah
Distributed by	Percept Picture Company
Release date	21 September 2007 (2007-09-21)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	india
Language	hindi
Budget	₹ 30crore[1]
Box office	₹ 47crore[2]

Dhol (English: Drum) is a 2007 Indian Hindi comedy thriller film directed by Priyadarshan, and produced under the Percept Picture Company. The film stars Tusshar Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Khemu, Rajpal Yadav, Tanushree Dutta and Om Puri in lead roles while Arbaaz Khan, Abhimanyu Singh, Payal Rohatgi, Murali Sharma, Asrani and Tiku Talsania are featured in supporting yet crucial roles. The movie is a remake of 1990 Malayalam film In Harihar Nagar written by Siddique-Lal^[3] which was already remade in Hindi in 1993 as Parda Hai Parda starring Chunky Pandey.^[4] The film released on 21 September 2007, and received mixed response from critics upon release; however, it was a moderate box office success.

Plot

Pankaj (Sharman Joshi), Sameer (Tusshar Kapoor), Martand (Rajpal Yadav) and Gautam (Kunal Khemu) are bound together by their ambition to make it big in life with the least effort possible. Each one tries his hand at finding a short cut to success but ends up being in even deeper trouble. Things get worse when the four decide to take some desperate measures to end their misery once and for all.

They believe that the only way to get rich without working hard is to marry a wealthy girl. As luck would have it, a rich girl Ritu (Tanushree Dutta) arrives in their neighborhood. All four set out with their individual plans to marry her but end up discovering a shocking truth. Ritu came to the city to find about her brother's killers.

All four of them try to impress Ritu but meanwhile they discover that Ritu's brother died along with another friend of Ritu's brother. They try hard and finally Pankaj is decided to marry Ritu. Soon before marriage Ritu finds the secret that his brother and his friend were in contact of a notorious gang leader Zikomo (Murali Sharma). Also Ritu finds that these four were bluffing all time just to impress her and so she starts avoiding them. One day Zikomo finds them and kidnap Ritu and her family members. He reveals himself to be the true killer and he confesses about killing Rahul and Jay. He asks for them to handover a drum if they wanted to see him alive, but Ritu's family members don't know about any drum. A fight ensues and Zikomo is killed in a self explosion in the end. Ritu hands over the drum and that's when the four of them find it filled with money, realizing that Zikomo was after the money and not the drum. They take the money and the film ends.

Cast

• Sharman Joshi as Pankaj "Pakkiya" Jaivardhan
• Tusshar Kapoor as Sameer "Sam" Arya
• Kunal Khemu as Gautam "Goti" Sisodia
• Rajpal Yadav as Martand "Maru" Damdere
• Tanushree Dutta as Ritu Tripathi
• Om Puri as Mr. Tripathi
• Arbaaz Khan as Jaishankar Yadav (Jai)
• Abhimanyu Singh as Rahul Tripathi
• Payal Rohatgi as Sophie
• Murli Sharma as Zikomo
• Tiku Talsania as Inspector Subhash Dongre (Mama)
• Asrani as Pankaj's brother in-law
• Farida Dadi as Mrs. Tripathi
• Rasika Joshi as Landlady
• Tareena Patel as Kanika

Soundtrack

Reception

Dhol opened to receive mixed reviews from top critics. Taran Adarsh rated it 3.5 out of 5, and claimed the film to be amongst director Priyadarshan's best works, and that it was a "hilarious laugh-riot" and "not to be missed!" However, at the box office, the film had an average opening, and grossed a nett 13.50 crores in its opening weekend. Due to the strong word-of-mouth and excellent public response; the film picked up much better in many places, though had a huge drop throughout the second week.The film was declared above average at the box office.

References

External links

• Dhol on IMDb
• Dhol Movie Review at Indicine.com