Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007)

Jaidev and Kavita Bhasin live a middle-classed lifestyle in Southall, England, along with their son, Sunny. During the mid-80s Jaidev was a star football player for the all-Asian Southall ... See full summary »

Director:

Vivek Agnihotri

Writers:

Anurag Kashyap (dialogue), Rohit Malhotra (story),

Stars:

John Abraham, Bipasha Basu, Arshad Warsi

Cast

Credited cast:
John Abraham	...	Sunny Bhasin
Bipasha Basu	...	Rumana
Arshad Warsi	...	Shaan Ali Khan
Shernaz Patel	...	Shweta
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Naveen Bawa
Dibyendu Bhattacharya	...	Debashis
Amanda Bitten	...	Jane Fischer - City Council Chair (as Amanda Britten)
Kate Carter	...	Babe
Saurabh Dubey	...	Jaidev Bhasin
Ahmed Iftekhar	...	Ifty
Ernest Ignatius	...	Mr. Dhariwahl
Boman Irani	...	Tony Singh
Sid Karne	...	Heckler
Javed Khan	...	Tony's Friend
Sana Khan	...	Dancer

Storyline

Jaidev and Kavita Bhasin live a middle-classed lifestyle in Southall, England, along with their son, Sunny. During the mid-80s Jaidev was a star football player for the all-Asian Southall Football Club, and their team was very successful so much so that it generated hatred from opposing mainstream Caucasian teams, who attacked Jaidev and the team's coach, Tony Singh. This spelled the end of the team, and the ground was then rented out for weddings and birthday parties. Jaidev wanted Sunny to follow in his footsteps, but Sunny believed himself to be British and joined the Aston Football Club. When the time came for selection, Sunny, often referred to as 'Paki', was sidelined. Embittered, he joined the Southall Club, and he, and the Captain Shaan Ali Khan, as well as Coach Tony Singh, steered the team to many victories including a place in the semi-finals. Just before Southall team was to play against Gatwick, they get the news that Sunny has flip-flopped again - this time he has ...

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Plot Keywords:

coach | arrogance | stadium | immigrant | racism | 

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Taglines:

Heroes will rise.

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Genres:

Sport

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Details

Country:

UK India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

23 November 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

INR 160,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aim Films, UTV Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

167 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The actors had training for their roles from Andy Ansah, the former Southend United striker, who choreographed the film's matches.

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Goofs

The exterior of the bus is that of an old style; the interior is much more modern.

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Soundtracks

"Hey Dude"
Written by Javed Akhtar
Composed by Pritam Chakraborty
Performed by Devrath Rana
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

stay away from this garbage

i love soccer. i don't normally watch bollywood movies other than the few good ones that get out in a year. however, because of the football angle i decided to give this movie a shot. i suffered. john and bipasha have proved beyond doubt they can't act and the idiotic and shallow characterization only makes it worse. this movie's script/dialog/screenplay/direction is so bad it makes boman and arshad look bad. now those two guys really have a flair to enliven proceedings but even they cant save the movie here. probably the only sensible thing they did was get a soccer choreorapher or whatever the guy who sets up the soccer play is called. but then that also is driven by such a clichéd script it is really not worth anything. if you like football you'd rather just switch to a champions league match to get your dose of soccer action. i rate it 1/10 for making such a bad movie about a sport i love. after this movie i puke every time i see bipasha.