Dum Maaro Dum

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Movie Info

Multiple lives collide brutally one day at Goa Airport... and change forever. We hurtle into the bylanes, beach shacks and raves of Goa with Lorry as his life spirals out of control, with Joki as he tries to redeem the past and with Kamath as he goes no holds barred after the mysterious shadow figure behind it all. Punctuated with a soundtrack that moves from pulsating dance tracks to haunting Konkani songs, shot right in the midst of the teeming international tourist hotspots, "Dum Maaro Dum" takes you on a dramatic, thrilling trip, filled with twists, turns, suspense... and a shocking finale!

Rating:

R (for violence, drug content and some language)
Genre:

Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Rohan Sippy
Written By:

Shridhar Raghavan
In Theaters:

Apr 22, 2011 limited
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 27, 2011
Box Office:

$563,699
Runtime:

130 minutes
Studio:

20th Century Fox

Cast

Prateik Babbar
as Lawrence Gomes/Lorry

Bipasha Basu
as Zoey Mendonca

Rana Daggubati
as DJ Joaquim Fernandes

Abhishek Bachchan
as ACP Vishnu Kamath

Aditya Pancholi
as Lorsa Biscuita

Anaitha Nair
as Tani

Govind Namdeo
as Inspector Rane

Muzammil S. Qureshi
as Mercy

Mariah Pucu Gantois Gomes
as Rozanna

Vidya Balan
as Mrs. Kamath

Gulshan Devaiah
as Ricky

Deepika Padukone
as Dancer

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Critic Reviews for Dum Maaro Dum

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2)

This entertaining if overlong Bollywood thriller is more than a little reminiscent of The Untouchables.

May 1, 2011 | Full Review…

Philip French
Guardian
Top Critic
It's made to high technical standards with plenty of stylish transitions and impressive location work, and its message just about makes it through all the songs and stylised drama intact.

Apr 28, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Phelim O'Neill
Guardian
Top Critic
Dum Maaro Dum has a story with the right mix for a thriller, and takes off the mark unerringly, lining up all its ducks in a smart, stylish row. But the great start is belied by a stuttering momentum, making it a film of intermittent pleasures.

Apr 2, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
Technical brilliance does not compensate for a poor screenplay which lacks that much-needed edge for a suspense thriller.

Apr 30, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Graham Young
Birmingham Mail
For all of the tough violence and rave-party gyrations, the moralistic tone and redemptive message of Dum Maaro Dum makes it a decidedly old-fashioned potboiler.

Apr 22, 2011 | Full Review…

Simon Foster
sbs.com.au

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Audience Reviews for Dum Maaro Dum

Aug 11, 2011

Rohan Sippy's earlier ventures had impressed me one way or another. Both had style and/or substance. So I was looking forward to this one (wasn't overtly desperate though). Unfortunately this one lacks both, style and substance. It'd have been okay had it entertained enough at the cost of logic.

familiar s Super Reviewer
Jun 05, 2011

well, this movie is not an usual Bollywood movie actually. It might have been inspired by some Hollywood movies, not sure about it, but the movie works in a way. This movie is about Goa & all the drug business that once had taken all over Goa. Enters ACP Kamath who takes a vow to clean up the mess. Talking about the performances Abhishek Bachchan plays these kind of roles very well. He was good & effective. Rana Daggubati had nothing much to do but seems like he has the potential. Prateik Babbar was good yet again after Dhobhi Ghat, Aditya Pancholi making a comeback, was okay & Bipasha had nothing much to do at all. The music of the movie is nice, specially the famous title track recreated. Also the background music was techno savvy, by the very talented Medieval Punditz. The final twist of the movie actually is a nice one, which will shock you for just a moment. The direction was fine but could have been much better, editing was not as sharp as it could have been, "thayn thayn" song could have been easily chopped, it was silly to watch a hardcore cop rapping in the middle of his duties. P.S. do not miss Deepika & her moves in the title track.

Abhilash S Super Reviewer