Daud (1997)

Name: Daud
Genre: Action, Adventure
Released: 1997-08-22
Duration: 180 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Urmila Matondkar, Paresh Rawal, Neeraj Vora, Ashish Vidhyarthi

Daud (1997), directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Sanjay Dutt and Urmila Matondkar.

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Synopsis

A notorious gangster asks a career thief by the name of Nandu to steal a package worth over one crore rupees for a fee.

Rasool ElloreCinematography
Ram Gopal VarmaDirector, Editing, Producer, Story, Screenplay
BhanodayaEditing
Jhamu SughandProducer

About the film

Daud (Hindi pronunciation: [d̪ɔːɽ]; transl. Run) 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.

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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)

All songs were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

Ottam (Tamil dubbed version)

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

All songs were written by Palani Bharathi

References

External links

Daud at IMDb

Text from Daud (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daud_(film)

Trivia

It premiered on August 22, 1997, a Friday.
It runs 3h00 — well over the usual two hours.
Its original title is "दौड़".
This film's quiz has 11 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.