Das Ka Dhamki

Krishna Das is a waiter at a five-star hotel in Hyderabad, called "Eestin". He tries to live a lavish lifestyle, as he is constantly degraded by customers for being poor. Along with his friends, Mahesh and Aadhi, he tries to live life to the fullest. One day at the hotel, he meets Keerthi and she falls in love with him due to Krishna projecting himself as the CEO of the pharmaceutical company, "SR Pharma Life." Keerthi later finds out that Krishna cheated her with her lies and he is fired by the hotel. In a desperation to arrange money for his living arrangements, he is found by SR Pharma Life's co-founder.

It is later revealed that the CEO of SR Pharma Life, Sanjay Rudra, is Krishna's doppelgänger. Sanjay is a rich and kind-hearted doctor, who is developing a drug that can cure cancer, in order to achieve his dream of a cancer-free world. He later finds an investor, Dhanunjay, who invests ₹10,000 crore into the project. When Sanjay mysteriously dies in a car accident, Krishna is asked to take over the responsibility of the company and Sanjay's family for 10 days. This leaves Krishna confused and happy as he can lead a rich life and impress Keerthi, for a short period. However, Krishna decides to investigate the accident and deduces that he himself is the sole cause of Sanjay's death, as he was racing Sanjay and poured coffee on his car's windshield, causing the accident to occur.

Krishna has a hard time adjusting to the fact that he is responsible for Sanjay's death and admits this to Sanjay's paralyzed mother. Unable to act as Sanjay, Krishna calls Sanjay's uncle and tells him that he will reveal his identity and that Sanjay died in a car accident. It is then revealed that Sanjay is still alive and is not the person who he claims to be. Sanjay and his professor invented a drug that can cure cancer, but Sanjay killed his professor after his refusal to sell the drug, in order to make profits. However, the drug only worked once and ended up killing everyone in the clinical trials. This caused Sanjay to come up with his own form of the drug, however, that too failed miserably. He then tried to escape abroad with the ₹10,000 crore and used Krishna in the process.

Krishna ends up escaping from the police and calls Keerthi for help, but later learns that she was also behind the scandal and just used Krishna to get Sanjay out of the country. Not knowing what to do, Krishna gets Mahesh and Aadhi to help him lure Sanjay into a trap. Sanjay later falls into the trap and Krishna uses the opportunity to switch places with Sanjay, while getting him arrested. Krishna then gets Sanjay's family also arrested, except for his mother, and leaves the place with all the money. He also dupes Keerthi into believing that he is Sanjay and gets married to her. One year later, it is shown that Sanjay has came up with a mind control drug, in prison, which allows him to escape. He calls Krishna, telling him that "he is back" and that it is "the beginning of the end", implying that the story would continue in Dhamki 2.

In March 2022, it was announced that Naresh Kuppili and Vishwak Sen would be coming together for a second film called Das Ka Dhamki.[3][4] However, later in that same month Vishwak Sen decided to direct the film instead. Filming commenced in March 2022 in Hyderabad.[5] Filming was later completed in February 2023.

The film score and soundtrack album of the film is composed by Leon James with one song, "Mawa Bro" composed by Ram Miriyala.

Das Ka Dhamki was scheduled to release on 17 February 2023, but was later postponed due to delay in the visual effects. Finally, the film was theatrically released on 22 March 2023.[6][7][8][9] The worldwide theatrical rights of the film were sold at a cost of ₹8 crore[10] . It was dubbed and theatrically released in hindi on 14 April 2023. The digital streaming rights were acquired by Aha[11][12] . It was premiered on Aha from 14th April 2023 in Telugu language. It has been dubbed and premiered in Tamil in Aha from 12th May 2023[13] .

Neeshita Nyayapathi of The Times of India gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Das Ka Dhamki is a film that’s just potential wasted. It works only in parts and spends the ending setting up a conflict for a sequel. Did it need as many cuss words? Probably no. Could’ve it done with some fine tuning? Yes. Maybe they’ll do that in the next part!"[14] 123Telugu gave 2.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "Das Ka Dhamki entertains partly. The film has a decent first half and a below-par second half. A simple story is presented with a bit of entertainment and many unsatisfactory twists. Vishwaksen is lively, but the movie doesn’t live up to the hype completely. You can give the film a shot but have your expectations in check."[15]

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