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 Ashish Vidyarthi Ashish Vidyarthi is an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Hindi films and lately in South Indian films. He has won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for film Drohkaal in 1995....	Suchitra's father
Livingston Livingston (actor) Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...	Police

Soundtrack

There are eight songs composed by Srikanth Deva.

• Adra Adra Dum - Silambarasan
• Chanakya Chanakya - Sadhana Sargam
  Sadhana Sargam
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• Kalakuven Kalakuven - Silambarasan
• Kalakuven Kalakuven - Shankar Mahadevan
  Shankar Mahadevan
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• Kannamma Kannamma - Anuradha Sriram
  Anuradha Sriram
  Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer who hails from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung in many Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films.- Personal life :...
  
   & Udit Narayan
  Udit Narayan
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• Karuppo Sivappo - Silambarasan
• Manase Manase - Hariharan
  Hariharan (singer)
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• Polladha Padava Mahalakshmi Iyer
  Mahalakshmi Iyer
  Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung over a thousand songs in many Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada and Malayalam.-Career:Mahalakshmi made her singing debut with Dus,...
  
  

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.