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Response: Dum Maro Dum has had a timid start with the film grossing Rs 11 crore on debut day, that is, on Friday. The total revenue is from countries including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, those in West Asia as well as India.

Out of the Rs 11 crore that Dum Maro Dum earned on Friday, just over Rs 6 crore came from the country itself, which can hardly be considered average.

The film was mired in controversy when Goa residents were miffed with director Rohan Shetty over alleged objectional comments about Goa and Goan women.

This could take a toll on earnings in Goa. Also, Shetty has launched Dum Maro Dum at a time when his audience is busy watching the IPL cliffhangers. So, the IPL could also shadow ticket sales of the film.

Film type: Thriller

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar, Aditya Pancholi, Deepika Padukone (guest appearance) and Rana Daggubati

Director: Rohan Shetty

Time of movie: Two hours 10 minutes

Story: Abhishek Bachchan, who plays the role of an ACP (Vishnu Kamath), had reached an abyss in his career as well as his personal life. But luckily, he gets a second chance: in Dum Maro Dum he has to clean up Goa and root out the drug mafia from there.

He has to grapple with multiple issues — to clean up deadly gangster Lorsa Biscuta (Aditya Pancholi) and a police department that is riddled by corruption. He also has to save many innocuous people who have been sucked into the drugs trade, including Zoey (Bipasha Basu) and Prateik Babbar.

Vishnu takes the help of a local DJ Joki, played by Rana Daggubati, in his bid to save the innocent lives. Can he accomplish his mission of vanquishing the drug mafia?

Review: Dum Maaro Dum manages to give a good concoction of love, sex, drama, crime and deceit, which have been discretely portrayed very well. But trying to put them all together the director, Rohan Shetty, seems to have got it all mixed up.

Abhishek has been at his best and I don’t remember him performing better in recent memory. He does give Dum Maro Dum a facelift and brings some life into the film but inconsistencies in the characters as well as the story are a few soar points.

The plot in Dum Maro Dum is so haphazard. When you try to get deeply involved with one character and show empathy, you will find yourself being switched to another character.

But the director does manage to create a great deal of success with the don’s character (Aditya Pancholi). The climax of the film is, however, a dampener. You are likely to feel that something is amiss.

Also, the songs in the film lack depth and are somewhat flippant. And the jig in Dum Maro Dum by Deepika Padukone also fails to impress.

Rating: 3/5