Double treat for Abhi

Abhishek Bachchan's strong, silent and songless cop's character in Rohan Sippy's upcoming next Dum Maaro Dum just got itself a song. And the music composer for the song is Pritam, who’s been working overnight to get the song ready. As reported, Abhishek Bachchan’s character of the no-nonsense cop in “Dum Maaro Dum” is based on his dear father the Big B's reticent no-nonsense police officer act in Prakash Mehra's ‘Zanjeer’.


According to the sources, it was felt that Abhi's character in the movie was getting too serious. The character needed to be lightened up. So Rohan Sippy, director of the flick decided to shoot a song with Abhishek. When contacted the music composer Pritam Chakraborty, he told that he has been asked to add a song for Abhishek Bachchan in the film. Abhishek won't be lip-syncing the track. But it will be his song only. You will hear the song whenever Abhishek comes on screen. Apparently, there was a big debate to decide if Abhishek's role should actually lip-syncing the song. The interesting point is that in Amitabh Bachchan starrer Zanjeer actors as varied as the superstars of the time Dev Anand, Dharmendra and Shammi Kapoor had said no to the cop's role because he had no songs to sing in themovie.

Prakash Mehra and the writers refused to budge over the song issue. The Big B was the last choice for the role in Zanjeer. But in the case of Dum Maaro Dum, Abhishek Bachchan was the first choice. And the entire team didn't want to dilute his character for any reasons. At the same time it was felt the character needed a bit of music. That's why Pritam was urgently asked to do Abhishek's song. Well! We hope that Dum Maaro Dum would become a successful hit this year!!!

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