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Daud (film)


FieldValue
nameDaud
imageDaud poster.jpg
captionPoster
directorRam Gopal Varma
producerRam Gopal Varma
Jhamu Sughand
writerKanan Ayar
Sanjay Chhel
Ram Gopal Varma
based_on
starringSanjay Dutt
Urmila Matondkar
Paresh Rawal
Manoj Bajpayee
musicA. R. Rahman
cinematographyRasool Ellore
editingBhanodaya
distributorMurlimanohar Creations
released
runtime174 minutes
countryIndia
languageHindi
budget77.5 million
gross147.9 million

the movie named Daud

Jhamu Sughand Sanjay Chhel Ram Gopal Varma Urmila Matondkar Paresh Rawal Manoj Bajpayee Daud (; ) is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language road adventure comedy film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Sanjay Dutt and Urmila Matondkar, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film was based on Ram Gopal Varma's 1991 Telugu film Kshana Kshanam, which starred Venkatesh, Sridevi and Paresh Rawal. Daud was not commercially successful.

Plot

The affable Nandu is a small-time crook who is hired to deliver a mysterious package to a notorious criminal named Pinky. Feeling that he is being cheated out of his delivery fee, Nandu holds out for more money, and soon finds himself on the run from both the angry gangsters and the police, who have launched a massive manhunt.

Nandu and Bhavani, the lovely cabaret dancer who's tagging along for the ride, assume the package contains gold; both are unpleasantly surprised when it turns out to be something deadlier: a nuclear bomb.

Cast

  • Sanjay Dutt as Nandu/Uma Parvati
  • Urmila Matondkar as Bhavani/Daya Shankar
  • Paresh Rawal as Pinky
  • Neeraj Vora as Chacko
  • Ashish Vidyarthi as Nair
  • Manoj Bajpayee as Pushkar
  • Vineet Kumar as Inspector Sri
  • Narsing Yadav as Inspector Rana
  • Jeetu Shastri as Joseph
  • Rajeev Mehta as Khurana
  • Rana Jung Bahadur as Commissioner of police
  • Sumukhi Pendse as Suvarna

Reception

Anupama Chopra of India Today wrote, "Despite the flaws, Daud makes for fun-watching."

Soundtrack

The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman, who also scored Rangeela. The lyrics were written by Mehboob, except for the song "Daud" which was penned by Sukhwinder Singh. One of the songs, "Zehreela Pyar" came heavily under the censor scanner for its rather bold picturization.

The soundtrack was re-released in Tamil as a non-film album titled Ottam and was dubbed in Telugu as 50–50.

Hindi - Original version

50–50 (Telugu dubbed version)

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All songs were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

#SongArtist(s)Length
1"Parugu Parugu Ra"Vandemataram Srinivas & Remo Fernandes5:51
2"Kasirepi"K. S. Chithra, Deena Chandra Das5:57
3"Shabba Shabba"Swarnalatha, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Srinivas Murthy7:42
4"The Thump of Daud"A. R. Rahman3:22
5"Ee Praayam Needhe Ra"K. S. Chithra & P. Unnikrishnan6:52
6"O Meghamaa"Sujatha Mohan, Unni Menon, Asha Bhosle6:08
7"Sy Saiyyante"Swarnalatha, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Asha Bhosle8:50

Ottam (Tamil dubbed version)

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Though the Tamil dubbed version of the film remains unreleased, the soundtrack album released.

All songs were written by Palani Bharathi

#SongArtist(s)Length
1"Ottam Thaan"Mano & Remo Fernandes5:51
2"Sooriyanaai"K. S. Chithra & Deena Chandra Das5:57
3"The Thump of Daud"A. R. Rahman3:22
4"Shabba Shabba"Swarnalatha, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Srinivasa Murthy7:42
5"En Kadhal Neruppe"K. S. Chithra & P. Unni Krishnan6:52
6"Poonthendrale"Sujatha Mohan, K. J. Yesudas & Asha Bhosle6:08
7"Oh! Vandhaale"Swarnalatha & S. P. Balasubrahmanyam8:50

References

References

  1. (5 May 2006). "Tamil Nadu / Chennai News: Study at Rajiv Menon's institute". [[The Hindu]].
  2. (2025-02-04). "When Ram Gopal Varma confessed being ‘selfish’ with Urmila Matondkar; recalled their ‘biggest problem’: ‘I just couldn’t accept…’".
  3. (1 September 1997). "Great Timepass". [[India Today]].
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