Dus (2005)

Director:

Anubhav Sinha

Writers:

Anubhav Sinha (dialogue)
Vinay (written by)
(more)

Release Date:

8 July 2005 (India)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Every hour, every minute, every second... counts.

Plot:

Siddhant Dheer lives a wealthy lifestyle with his brother, Shashank, and sister, Anu. Both Siddhant...

Plot Keywords:

Canada | Terrorist | Secret Code | Code Breaking | Slow Motion Scene

Awards:

3 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Sanjay Dutt	...	Siddanth Dheer
Sunil Shetty	...	Danish 'Dan'
Abhishek Bachchan	...	Shashank Dheer
Zayed Khan	...	Aditya
Shilpa Shetty	...	Aditi
Esha Deol	...	ATC Agent Neha
Pankaj Kapur	...	Himmat Mehndi / Jamwal
Diya Mirza	...	Anu Dheer
Raima Sen	...	Priya (Dan's wife)
Gulshan Grover	...	Irfan Khan / Jamwal
Ninad Kamat	...	Roy
Javed Sheikh	...	Dan's Supervisor
Mayte Garcia	...	Dancer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Madison Lindstrom	...	School Girl
Rajendra Sethi	...	Altaf
Kiran Shergill	...	Dancer
Anjan Srivastav	...	Bose

Directed by
Anubhav Sinha

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Anubhav Sinha		dialogue
Vinay		written by
Yash		written by

Produced by
Kalim Khan	....	executive producer
Sohail Maklai	....	producer
Nitin Manmohan	....	producer
Beena Shah	....	supervising producer
Rajesh Shah	....	line producer

Original Music by
Ranjit Barot
Vishal Dadlani		(as Vishal)
Shekhar Ravjiani		(as Shekhar)

Cinematography by
Vijay Kumar Arora		(as Vijay Arora)

Production Design by
Acropolis

Production Management
Ronak Bhagat	....	executive in charge of production
Basudev Bhandari	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Monika Guptaa	....	chief assistant director
Fahim Inamdar	....	assistant director: post-production

Sound Department
Ameet Ahire	....	foley recordist
Prakash Gupta	....	assistant re-recordist
Rajendra Hegde	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Geeta Basantani	....	digital compositor
Richie Basilan	....	digital compositor
Louis Cox	....	visual effects
Tushar Desai	....	visual effects supervisor
Vivek Gaur	....	digital compositor: prime focus
Jared Jones	....	digital compositor
Sandeep Kamal	....	digital effects artist: Prime Focus [in]
Jason Korber	....	digital compositor
Mike Leeming	....	I/O supervisor
Joe Lomba	....	visual effects producer
Ryan Mintenko	....	digital effects artist
Anand Nayak	....	digital compositor
Earl Paraszczynec	....	3D lead
Susheel Peris	....	digital compositor
Suryapal Rawat	....	Flame artist
Dinesh Solanki	....	digital compositor
Mark Spatny	....	visual effects supervisor
Susan Stewart	....	digital matte painter
Merzin Tavaria	....	visual effects supervisor
Mike Yip	....	visual effects

Stunts
Allan Amin	....	stunt coordinator
Gavin Buhr	....	stunts
Christian Fraser	....	stunt double
Zandara Kennedy	....	stunts
Terrance Leigh	....	stunt coordinator
Terrance Leigh	....	stunt double: Abhishek Bachchan
Terrance Leigh	....	stunt double: Suniel Shetty
Terrance Leigh	....	stunt double: Zayed Khan
Lori MacKay	....	stunt performer
John Sampson	....	stunt coordinator: Canada
John Sampson	....	stunt double: Abhishek Bachchan
John Sampson	....	stunt driver: car flipping on the bridge
Teri Lee Sampson	....	car jump stunt double: Shilpa Shetty
Teri Lee Sampson	....	stunt driver
Jeff Sanca	....	stunt driver
Ron Webber	....	stunt performer
Dwayne Wiley	....	stunt performer

Camera and Electrical Department
Asit Biswas	....	assistant camera
Rajesh Rathore	....	first assistant camera (as Rajesh Rathod)

Editorial Department
Rohan Desai	....	digital intermediate supervisor

Music Department
Sunidhi Chauhan	....	playback singer
Earl D'Souza	....	playback singer
Hariharan	....	playback singer
Mahalakshmi Iyer	....	playback singer
Kay Kay	....	playback singer
Ashish Manchanda	....	music mixing engineer
Caralisa Monteiro	....	playback singer
Sapna Mukherjee	....	playback singer
Udit Narayan	....	playback singer
Sonu Nigam	....	playback singer
Deepak P.A.	....	additional programmer: score
Deepak P.A.	....	recording engineer: score
Deepak P.A.	....	score engineer
Shaan	....	playback singer
Sandeep Shirodkar	....	song programming
Nandini Srikar	....	playback singer
Babul Supriyo	....	playback singer
Alka Yagnik	....	playback singer

Other crew
Bosco	....	choreographer
Cesar	....	choreographer
Liz Imperio	....	choreographer
Baba Yadav	....	choreographer

Production Companies

• Neha Arts

Distributors

• Kria (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• Sangam Investments Pty. Ltd. (2005) (Australia) (theatrical)

Runtime:

152 min | Australia:153 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:12A | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Neha Arts

Trivia:

This film is inspired by the 1995 Hollywood blockbuster "The Usual Suspects". Though the entire movie differs in its screenplay, the characterization of Pankaj Kapoor bears resemblance to the character played by Kevin Spacey and the twist of the movie bears similarity.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sanjay Dutt and all come to leave Abhishek and Zayed in the airport, When Abhishek goes to smoke he is clean shaved, but in the end when they show the scene again he has beard.

Quotes:

Aditya:[Trying to diffuse a bomb under the car while Shahshank is driving] Oh darling, so here you are hiding. Shashank, don't even think of removing from your feet from the Accelerator. Otherwise, brother Siddharth will have to take care of Anu's wedding
[Siddharth & Shahshank's sister]
Aditya:alone.
[laughs hysterically]
Shashank Dheer:[after 2 minutes, Aditya comes back inside the car and sits relaxedly] So, bomb diffused?
Aditya:Nope.
[Shashank looks at him with surprise and then they jump out of the car]
Aditya:.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ghajini (2008)

Soundtrack:

Chham Se

Entertaining Movie

An all star caste for a roller coaster movie.

This is a reasonable family film which i'd rate as a 15, there's little nudity (one risky dance scene) and moderate swearing.

An all-round entertainer with fresh ideas for the Bollywood genre.

There's a lot going on in the movie so my tip is to write down some of the names so you can keep up with the pace and plot line.

Would recommend this film to friends and family.

There are only three songs and these are well choreographed.

I would rate this film higher if the characters were better rounded.

Looking forward to more feature films like these.

Thumbs up on this one!

Movie buff (uk)