Dum (2003 Tamil film)

Dum is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language action-romantic comedy film directed by A. Venkatesh and written by Puri Jagannadh. The film stars Silambarasan and Rakshitha in the lead roles, while Ashish Vidyarthi and S. S. Rajendran play pivotal roles. The movie is a remake of 2002 Kannada film Appu.[1]

Dum
DVD cover
Directed byA. Venkatesh
Produced byRockline Venkatesh
Written byPrasanna Kumar (dialogues)
Story byPuri Jagannadh
StarringSilambarasan
Rakshitha
Ashish Vidyarthi
Music byDeva
CinematographyA. Venkatesh
Edited byV. T. Vijayan
Production
company
Rockline Productions
Release date
  • 12 April 2003 (2003-04-12)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Satya (Silambarasan) is the son of a police constable. He gets into fights and ends up in jail where his own 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 (Rakshitha) comes and takes him to the hospital and gives 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.[2]

Cast

Production

The film was initially set to be titled Idiot after the Telugu version, but the title was later changed.[3] A. Venkatesh remade the film from Puri Jagannadh's 2002 Kannada film Appu, which was also remade in Telugu in 2002 as Idiot. Rakshitha appeared in all three versions of the film. During the making of the film, Silambarasan did his own stunts including a risky jump from the fifth floor of a building.[4]

Release

Dum was Simbu's 1st commercial hit.[5]

Soundtrack

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

No.SongSingersLyrics
1Adra Adra DumSilambarasan, SabeshSilambarasan
2Chanakya ChanakyaSadhana SargamP. Vijay
3Kalakuven Kalakuven IShankar Mahadevan
4Kalakuven Kalakuven IISilambarasan, Vaali
5Kannamma KannammaUdit Narayan, Anuradha SriramKabilan
6Karuppo SivappoSilambarasanP. Vijay
7Manase ManaseHariharan
8Polladha PadavaMahalakshmi Iyer, KK

References
  1. Shenoy, Megha. "Inspiration for remakes". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  2. "Simbhu". Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  3. "Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services". Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  4. "We've the best of both worlds'". p. 02. Retrieved 3 June 2016 – via The Hindu (old).
  5. Dum was Simbu's first hit
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