families. Adhi comes in place of his friend Jim as a junior lawyer to assist Sivaji, thereby meeting Ganga every day. Sivaji finds that Adhi has not come as a junior and instead for some other reason. However, he misunderstands that Adhi is in love with his own daughter and fears that his daughter might elope with Adhi someday. Adhi appears as lawyer for Veluthambi's son-in-law, and saves him based on lack of evidence. Finally, Adhi's father understands that Veluthambi was innocent and apologizes to him. Adhi and Ganga are united in the end. Cast R. Madhavan as Adhitya aka Aadhi Jyothika as Ganga Veluthambi Manivannan as Sivaji Vivek as Jim Murali as Veluthambi, Ganga's father V. K. Ramasamy as Ganga's grandfather Delhi Kumar as Adhi's father Kalairani as Adhi's mother Chinni Jayanth as Sivaji's client Gowtham Sundararajan as Ganga's brother-in-law M. S. Bhaskar as Adhi's relative Kalpana as Pattamma Richa Ahuja as Asha Vaiyapuri as Saami Sridhar as Shree Shanthi Williams as Sivaji's wife S. N. Parvathy as Ganga's grandmother Preetha as Sivaji's daughter Production Mani Ratnam chose his assistant Azhagam Perumal to direct a film for his production studio, Madras Talkies in late 2000 and the pair worked on a screenplay together. Azhagam Perumal had earlier begun two projects, Mudhal Mudhalaaga in 1998 and Udhaya in 1998, but both films ran into production troubles, so his mentor Mani Ratnam was keen to launch him as a director. The basic plotline of the film was taken from the episode Love Story from Suhasini's 1991 miniseries Penn. While Mani Ratnam worked on writing the film's city portions, Azhagam Perumal wrote the portions set in the village. R. Madhavan, who played the lead role in Mani Ratnam's previous project Alaipayuthey (2000), was signed on to play the lead role alongside actress Jyothika. It was initially reported that Madras Talkies had signed on composer Dhina to work on the film's soundtrack, but he was later replaced by Karthik Raja. A song sequence was shot at Thanjavur Periya Koil and became the final film to shoot there until Kandaen released in 2011. The film had a premiere on 13 April 2001 at Sathyam Cinemas in aid of the Ability Foundation, an organisation working for the welfare of the disabled. Release Upon release on 13 April 2001, Dumm Dumm Dumm garnered predominantly positive feedback from critics. The critic from Rediff.com cited that the film