Dum (2003 Tamil film)

Dhum
Directed by	A. Venkatesh
Produced by	T.N.Rockline Venkatesh
Written by	A. Venkatesh Puri Jagannadh Prasanna Kumar
Starring	Silambarasan Rakshitha Ashish Vidyarthi Livingston Delhi Ganesh
Music by	Srikanth Deva
Cinematography	A. Venkatesh
Editing by	V. T. Vijayan
Distributed by	Rockline Productions
Release date(s)	12 April 2003
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Dum is a South Indian Tamil blockbuster film released in 2003 starring Simbu and Rakshitha. This film is a remake of the Kannada movie Appu starring Puneet Rajkumar, which was also remade in Telugu in 2002 as the film Idiot starring Raviteja and Rakshitha.

Plot

Simbu is the son of a police constable. He gets into fights and ends up in jail where his own father gets him out on bail. While he is returning home from a party drunk, a group of college students beats him up. That is when Rakshita comes and takes him to hospital and gives blood. She is the daughter of a police commissioner. Later, he falls in love with Rakshitha. That leads to several problems which are faced bravely by Simbu is the later part of the film.

Cast

Actor	Role
Silambarasan	Satya
Rakshitha	Suchitra
Ashish Vidyarthi	Suchitra's father
Livingston	Police

Soundtrack

There are eight songs composed by Srikanth Deva.

• Adra Adra Dum - Silambarasan
• Chanakya Chanakya - Sadhana Sargam
• Kalakuven Kalakuven - Silambarasan
• Kalakuven Kalakuven - Shankar Mahadevan
• Kannamma Kannamma - Anuradha Sriram & Udit Narayan
• Karuppo Sivappo - Silambarasan
• Manase Manase - Hariharan
• Polladha Padava Mahalakshmi Iyer

Box office

• The film grossed $3 million at the box office.It ran for 100 Days and was considered one of the biggest blockbuster hits in Simbu's career of acting.

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