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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2021 film directed by Rensil D’Silva}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Dial 100<br />
| image = Dial 100 poster.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Release poster<br />
| director = [[Rensil D'Silva]]<br />
| producer = [[Sony Pictures Networks India|Sony Pictures Films India]]<br />Siddharth P.Malhotra<br />Sapna Malhotra<br />
| writer = Rensil D’Silva<br />
| screenplay = Rensil D’Silva<br />
| based_on = <br />
| starring = [[Manoj Bajpayee]]<br />[[Neena Gupta]]<br />[[Sakshi Tanwar]]<br />
| cinematography = Anuj Rakesh Dhawan<br />
| editing = Asif Ali Shaikh<br />
| music = [[Raju Singh]]<br />
| studio = [[Sony Pictures Networks India|Sony Pictures Films India]]<br />Alchemy Films<br />
| distributor = [[ZEE5]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2021|08|06|ref1=<ref name="release date" />}}<br />
| runtime = 104 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| budget = <!--Must be attributed to a reliable published source with an established reputation for fact-checking. No blogs, no IMDb.--><br />
| gross = <!--Must be attributed to a reliable published source with an established reputation for fact-checking. No blogs, no IMDb.--><br />
| language = Hindi<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Dial 100''''' is a 2021 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[thriller drama film]] directed by [[Rensil D'Silva]] and produced by [[Sony Pictures Networks India|Sony Pictures Films India]], Siddharth P.Malhotra and Sapna Malhotra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta-and-sakshi-tanwar-to-star-in-dial-100-7075012|title=Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta and Sakshi Tanwar to star in Dial 100|date=1 December 2020|website=The Indian Express|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> The film stars [[Manoj Bajpayee]], [[Neena Gupta]] and [[Sakshi Tanwar]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/movies/bollywood/story/manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta-sakshi-tanwar-come-together-for-thriller-dial-100-1745629-2020-12-01|title=Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta, Sakshi Tanwar come together for thriller Dial 100|date=1 December 2020|publisher=India Today|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta-sakshi-tanwar-star-rensil-dsilvas-thriller-dial-100/|title=Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta, and Sakshi Tanwar to star in Rensil D'Silva's thriller Dial 100|date=1 December 2020|website=[[Bollywood Hungama]]|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> The film premiered on 6 August 2021 on [[ZEE5]].<ref name="release date">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/dial-100-trailer-out-manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta-s-thriller-to-premiere-on-zee5-on-august-6-1830537-2021-07-20|title=Dial 100 trailer out. Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta's thriller to premiere on Zee5 on August 6|date=20 July 2021|work=India Today|access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> it was loosely inspired from the Danish film ''[[The Guilty (2018 film)|The Guilty]]''.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Nikhil Sood is an overworked and underpaid police officer who one night gets a call on the emergency helpline number 100 from a woman who is threatening to commit suicide.<br />
Nikhil asks for her details and says he needs that in order to help her but the woman firstly hesitates and then refuses saying she is going to die soon anyway.<br />
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Nikhil's wife Prerna phones to alert him that she thinks their son Dhruv could be back to his old habits of being a drug peddler. She continues to tell him that Dhruv leaves home late at night same as when he leaves for his late night shift.<br />
Nikhil rings his son and somehow makes him understand and return home quickly. But before that the mysterious women who called Nikhil threatening suicide reaches his house and holds Prerna captive. The woman forces Prerna to sit in her car and calls Nikhil after having a second conversation he realizes that she is Seema Palav whose son died in hit a run case and a rich spoilt brat Yash Mehra's car was the one that hit him. The case got shut down due to pressure from the city's big wigs and the woman thinks Dhruv also had a hand in it.<br />
Seema's motive is only revenge by killing Yash, hence the reason she has kidnapped Prerna. She wants Dhruv to get Yash to her. Whether she succeeds forms the rest of the story.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Manoj Bajpayee]] as Senior Inspector Nikhil Sood<br />
* [[Neena Gupta]] as Seema Paalav<br />
* [[Sakshi Tanwar]] as Prerna Sood, Nikhil's wife<br />
* [[Nandu Madhav]] as Chandrakant Paalav aka Chandu, Seema's husband<br />
* [[Abhijeet Chavan]] as Inspector Gharat<br />
* [[Urmila Mahanta]] as Gayatri<br />
* Vikram Bham as Najeeb<br />
* Madhur Arora as Suresh Nayak<br />
* Deepanshu Titoriya as Avi<br />
* Girish Dixit as Ashish Deshmukh<br />
* Virandra Giri as Sangha<br />
* Svar Kamble as Dhruv Sood, Nikhil's son<br />
* [[Ivan Sylvester Rodrigues]] as Gautam Mehra<br />
* Nilesh Mamgain as Gulam Ahmed<br />
* Aman Gandotra as Yash Mehra, Gautam's son<br />
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== Production ==<br />
The [[Principal photography]] commenced on 1 December 2020 in [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/news-neena-gupta-manoj-bajpayee-sakshi-tanwar-team-up-for-thriller-dial-100-2859415|title=Neena Gupta, Manoj Bajpayee, Sakshi Tanwar team up for thriller 'Dial 100'|work=Daily News & Analysis|date=1 December 2020|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta-sakshi-tanwar-begin-filming-director-rensil-dsilvas-thriller-dial-100-9069461.html|title=Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta, Sakshi Tanwar begin filming director Rensil D'Silva's thriller Dial 100|publisher=Firstpost|date=1 December 2020|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/2020/dec/02/dial-100-goes-on-floors-2230761.html|title=Dial 100 goes on floors|publisher=New Indian Express|date=2 December 2020|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
Rahul Desai of Film Companion wrote, "Even though Dial 100 gets its nihilistic messaging on point, the gimmicky execution ensures the film is about as surprising as a traffic jam in Andheri East."<ref>{{cite web|first=Rahul|last=Desai|url=https://www.filmcompanion.in/reviews/bollywood-review/dial-100-zee5-review-dials-up-the-dated-melodrama-of-middle-class-rage-manoj-bajpayee-neena-gupta/ |title=Dial 100, On ZEE5, Dials Up The Dated Melodrama Of Middle-Class Rage |access-date=August 12, 2021}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|tt15062202}}<br />
* ''[https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/dial-100/0-0-1z51248 Dial 100]'' at [[ZEE5]]<br />
* {{Bollywood Hungama title|dial-100-3}}<br />
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