Dhamaal (2007)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Indra Kumar

Writers:

Paritosh Painter (story)
Paritosh Painter (screenplay)
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Release Date:

7 September 2007 (India)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Four slackers and con-men namely: Boman Contractor, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with his eccentric dad...

Plot Keywords:

Race | Goa | Airplane | Stolen Car | Landlady

Cast

Ritesh Deshmukh	...	Deshbandhu 'Dectective' Roy
Arshad Warsi	...	Aditya 'Adi' Shrivastav
Javed Jaffrey	...	Manav Shrivastav
Sanjay Dutt	...	Inspector Kabir Nayak
Asrani	...	Nari Contractor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vinay Apte
Rana Jung Bahadur	...	Kailash
Aashish Chaudhary	...	Boman Contractor
Prem Chopra	...	Bose
Kurush Deboo	...	Dwivedi
Ninad Kamat
Sanjay Mishra	...	Baabu Bhai
Suhasini Mulay	...	Landlady
Manoj Pahwa	...	Pilot
Vijay Patkar
Vijay Raaz	...	Devkumar Malik - Air Traffic Controller, Goa (as Vijay Raj)
Surendra Rajan
D. Santosh
Kiku Sharda
Murli Sharma
Tiku Talsania	...	Bombay Police Commissioner M.I. Chaturvedi

Directed by
Indra Kumar

Writing credits
Paritosh Painter		(story)
Paritosh Painter		(screenplay)
Paritosh Painter		(dialogue) and
Balvinder Singh Suri		(dialogue) and
Bunty Rathod		(dialogue)

Produced by
Indra Kumar	....	producer
Ashok Thakeria	....	producer

Original Music by
Adnan Sami

Film Editing by
Sanjay Sankla

Art Direction by
Bijon Das Gupta

Sound Department
Chiranjeevi Nanda	....	audiographer

Visual Effects by
Ken Metzker	....	digital intermediate colorist
Abhilash Nanda	....	roto artist
Rajiv Raghunathan	....	senior digital intermediate producer
Prasad Sutar	....	visual effects supervisor

Editorial Department
Ken Metzker	....	digital intermediate colorist

Music Department
Amit Kumar	....	playback singer
Shantanu Mukherjee	....	playback singer
Adnan Sami	....	playback singer
Sandeep Shirodkar	....	music programmer

Other crew
Nazar Abbas	....	director: behind-the-scenes

Production Companies

• Maruti International

Runtime:

136 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

Ireland:PG | Portugal:M/6

Company:

Maruti International

Trivia:

Director Indra Kumar had gone to see Paritosh Painter's play "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil", and was so impressed with Paritosh's style of writing that he offered him the job of writing this film.

Movie Connections:

References Krrish (2006)

superb laughter riot

After watching a successive trend of boring movies which promised to be wonderful comedies I did not have very high hopes from this one but it seems I was totally wrong for this movie as it does wonders with comedy, it really proves how a clean entertainer can be made and enjoyed without going through vulgar gestures and cheap jokes. This is an adaptation of the movie Rat Race in a very Indian way and really the comedy makes every moment of your time worthwhile. There is no proper story line, not a good music but all of it is irrelevant compared to the spellbinding comic performances delivered.Trust there wouldn't be a minute you would think about anything else than heaps of laughter you have poured. All the actors did their part extremely well, the dialog delivery was just perfect and without going into too much technical jargon, I would say I really loved watching it.