Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007)

Director:

Vivek Agnihotri

Writers:

Anurag Kashyap (dialogue)
Rohit Malhotra (story)
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Release Date:

23 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Sport

Tagline:

Heroes will rise.

Plot:

Jaidev and Kavita Bhasin live a middle-classed lifestyle in Southall, England, along with their son...

Plot Keywords:

Coach | Racism | Arrogance | Stadium | Soccer Football

Cast

John Abraham	...	Sunny J. Bhasin
Bipasha Basu	...	Rumana
Arshad Warsi	...	Shaan Ali Khan
Shernaz Patel	...	Shweta S. Khan
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
Boman Irani	...	Tony Singh
Sid Karne	...	Heckler
Javed Khan	...	Tony's Friend
Shakeel Khan
Gilbert Montoya	...	Football player
Zehra Naqvi	...	Jenny
Stephen Nicholas	...	Adrian Aston - Football Player
Kushal Punjabi	...	Goalie
Salman Rathore	...	Official
Sanjay Sharma	...	Akash
Natasha Sinha
Dalip Tahil	...	Johnny Bakshi
Amarjoet Singh Tiwana	...	Amo
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Monty Singh (as Raj Zutshi)

Directed by
Vivek Agnihotri

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Anurag Kashyap		dialogue
Rohit Malhotra		story, screenplay, dialogue
Vikramaditya Motwane		screenplay

Produced by
Siddharth Roy Kapur	....	associate producer
Deven Khote	....	co-producer
Zarina Mehta	....	co-producer
Ram Mirchandani	....	associate producer
Alpana Mishra	....	associate producer
Rajesh Nair	....	supervising producer
Prem Pillai	....	supervising producer
Ronnie Screwvala	....	producer

Original Music by
Pritam Chakraborty
Sanjoy Chowdhury		(background score)

Cinematography by
Attar Singh Saini

Film Editing by
Hemal Kothari

Casting by
Naila Mughal

Art Direction by
Nitin Chandrakant Desai

Costume Design by
Rocky S

Production Management
Ronak Motla	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Satyajeet Gazmer	....	associate director
Nitin Parmar	....	chief assistant director
Aseem Tiwari	....	assistant director: India

Sound Department
Leslie Fernandes	....	sound re-recording mixer
Umesh Patel	....	dialogue editor
Dwarak Warrier	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Mahesh Deshpande	....	DI editor
Abhilash Nanda	....	roto artist
Rajiv Raghunathan	....	senior digital intermediate producer

Stunts
Kanishka Sharma	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Thomas English	....	steadicam operator
Rajesh Rajilal	....	grip
Saurabh Vishwakarma	....	first assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rajni	....	assistant costume designer
Vishakha	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Rajesh Dash	....	associate editor
Subhash Chnadra Jaswal	....	additional editor
Rajesh	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Javed Ali	....	playback singer
Anand Raj Anand	....	playback singer
Daler Mehndi	....	playback singer
Devrath Rana	....	playback singer
Richa Sharma	....	playback singer
Sandeep Shirodkar	....	song programming
Neeraj Shridhar	....	playback singer

Other crew
Andy Ansah	....	football choreographer
Shahana Dasgupta	....	script supervisor
Saroj Khan	....	choreographer
Leigh Nicol	....	script supervisor
Angelica Pressello	....	script supervisor
Rajesh Rajilal	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Aim Films
• UTV Motion Pictures

Distributors

• UTV Motion Pictures (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Bharat Entertainment International (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Eveready Pictures (2007) (Pakistan) (theatrical)
• Al Mansoor Films (2007) (United Arab Emirates) (all media)
• Bharat Entertainment International (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Country:

UK | India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Aim Films

Trivia:

The first Indian film to be distributed in Pakistan after a more than three-decade ban on films from that country. It is because the film is a UK-India co-production and because of negotiations with the film's distributor in Dubai that a release in Pakistan was allowed.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning, the prize money is mentioned to be 3 million "pounds". But in the end when the prize money is shown on the huge display it is 3 million "dollars".

A riveting sports drama from the land of Cricket

OK, first things first, India has cricket as it's unofficial national game (kabaddi, ask any1 here and u'll get a blank face). But still, soccer is ultra popular in West Bengal and small factions...So, the chances of this movie doing well were always bleak, and so it didn't do well, but this film was good....i mean GOOD...John fitted the role of a racially abused striker almost perfectly, Arshad was a little sidelined towards the end, still he played a matured role with enough maturity.The team was full of oddballs, but Boman pumped them up, okay, that ManU bit was a bit overboard, still good...U get inspired from champs, don't u...Bips was there just for bollywood style fun...the babe in the item song was uber hot...Arshad's wife was well casted and enacted, and the tale of Southhall's fan was a good twist to the same old tale...The finale was gr8...Overall, a good sports drama...and those who think what happened to John doesn't happens nowadays, wake up idiots, don't u see what the aussies did to India...