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Dhak Dhak

2023 drama film by Tarun Dudeja

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Dhak Dhak is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language road adventure drama film written and directed by Tarun Dudeja and produced by Ajit Andhare, Kevin Vaz, Pranjal Khandhdiya and Taapsee Pannu under the banner of BLM Pictures, Outsider Films Productions and Viacom18 Studios. It stars Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza Rekhi, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanjana Sanghi. The film was released on 13 October 2023.

At the 69th Filmfare Awards, the film received three nominations, including Best Actress (Critics) for Shaikh and Best Supporting Actress for Shah.

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“Dhak Dhak” enters the record as 2023 drama film by Tarun Dudeja. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dhak, drama and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dhak Dhak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.