Dhool
Dhool English Super is a 2003 Tamil action film directed by Dharani. The film featured Vikram, Jyothika and Reemma Sen in the lead roles, while Vivek, Sayaji Shinde, Telangana Sakunthala and Pasupathy among others play supporting roles. The film, produced by A. M. Rathnam at a cost of 7crore, had music composed by Vidyasagar and released in January 2003 to positive reviews and was a huge commercial success. It was dubbed into Malayalam with same title. The film is still considered as a cult masala entertainer. It was remade in Telugu as Veede 2003 and in Sinhala as Ranja 2014.
After the success of their 2001 collaboration Dhill, Dharani and Vikram announced in February 2002 that they were to come together again for a project titled Dhool. Initially Simran was selected to play the female lead, since with her Telugu projects made her to drop the movie and eventually jyothika got the chance to play opposite vikram for the first time. The films song were partially shot in Denmark, and plans had been earlier made to shoot fight sequences in London, though the team later opted against doing so. A huge set of a temple, a church, some houses and a shopping area, was erected at the Indian Express Office premises.Upon release in January 2003, the film opened to positive reviews and box office success despite opening alongside other prominent ventures such as the Kamal HaasanMadhavan starrer Anbe Sivam and Vijays Vaseegara. Rediff.com review praised Vikrams enactment citing that Vikram is at his peak and that he seems as much at home with comedy as with action, in romance as in emotional sequences, while the critic from The Hindu also praised his performance. The film became a blockbuster and Vikrams fifth success in two and a half years with Vikram being dubbed as the matinee idol of our times by a leading Indian newspaper. The film was nominated in six different categories at the Filmfare Awards South 2003 with A. M. Rathnam, Dharani and Vidyasagar being considered for the Best Film, Best Director and Best Music Director categories respectively. Furthermore, Jyothika was listed amongst the Best Actress nominees, while Reemma Sen and Vivek were also shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actress and Best Comedian awards. However the film did not win any awards with Pithamagan sweeping most of the categories that year, although Vivek did win for his role in Saamy. The film successfully ranweeks. ........
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