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{{Infobox film
| name = Ta Ra Rum Pum
| image = TaRaRumPum Poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Siddharth Anand]]
| producer = [[Aditya Chopra]]
| writer =
| screenplay = [[Habib Faisal]]
| story = Siddharth Anand
| based_on =
| starring = {{Unbulleted list |[[Saif Ali Khan]]|[[Rani Mukerji]]|Angelina Idnani|[[Master Ali Haji|Ali Haji]]|[[Javed Jaffrey]]}}
| music = {{Unbulleted list |'''Songs:'''|[[Vishal–Shekhar]]|'''Background Score:'''|[[Salim–Sulaiman]]}}
| narrator = Angelina Idani
| cinematography = [[Binod Pradhan]]
| editing = {{Unbulleted list |Rameshwar S. Bhagat|Ritesh Soni}}
| studio =
| distributor = [[Yash Raj Films]]
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|2007|04|27}}
| runtime = 153 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR}}28 crore<ref name="boxofficeindia">{{Cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=341|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum - Movie - Box Office India}}</ref>
| gross = {{INR}}72 crore<ref name="boxofficeindia" />
}}

'''''Ta Ra Rum Pum''''' is a 2007 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[sports drama film]] directed by [[Siddharth Anand]] and written by [[Habib Faisal]]. It stars [[Saif Ali Khan]], [[Rani Mukerji]], Angelina Idnani, [[Ali Haji (actor)|Ali Haji]] and [[Jaaved Jaaferi|Javed Jaffrey]] in lead roles. In the film, newly-successful professional racer Rajveer "RV" Singh (Khan) faces success and tribulations within the U.S. [[stock car]] racing scene, supported by his pianist-wife Radhika "Shona" Bannerjee (Mukerji).

''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' draws inspiration from the films ''[[Days of Thunder]]'' (1990), ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]]'' and ''[[The Pursuit of Happyness]]'' (both 2006), and marks Khan and Mukerji's second collaboration, after ''[[Hum Tum (2004 film)|Hum Tum]]'' (2004), which was co-written by Anand. The film marks the second collaboration between Anand and Khan, after ''[[Salaam Namaste]]'' (2005). [[Principal photography]] began in May 2006 and lasted until that June, with the filming locations including the [[Milwaukee Mile]], the [[Rockingham Speedway]], and on set in [[Mumbai]].

''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' theatrically released in India by [[Yash Raj Films]] on April 27, 2007. The film emerged as a moderate commercial success, grossing {{INRConvert|70|c}} worldwide, thus becoming the tenth highest grossing Hindi film of 2007. It received mixed reviews from critics upon release, with praise for its setting, and Khan and Mukherji's performances, but criticism for its screenplay, length and pacing.

== Plot ==
Rajveer "RV" Singh, a happy-go-lucky race track pit crew member and aspiring racer, lands a professional [[stock car]] racing contract with the Speeding Saddles, a struggling racing team, after illegally speeding a [[New York City]] taxi owned by the team manager and his eventual agent, Harry.

RV soon becomes a successful racer, and later marries Radhika "Shona" Shekar Rai Bannerjee, a pianist and music major at [[Columbia University]], despite the disapproval of Radhika's father, businessman Shubho Shekhar, due to the pair's lack of [[academic degree]]s and conventional employment. After the wedding, Shona leaves her career to care for their two children, Priya "Princess" Singh and Rajveer "Champ" Singh Jr., as RV and Speeding Saddles become the sport's most acclaimed.

Eight years later, during a race, rival racer Rusty Finkelstein crashes into RV's car, severely injuring and hospitalizing him. RV returns to the sport a year later but finishes last in each race owing to [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] (PTSD) from his accident. Exasperated, the team owner Billy Bhatia fires RV and replaces him with Rusty.

After the couple fails to get alternative employment (including a failed attempt by RV to create a breakaway team with Harry), their house is [[foreclose]]d, and most of their possessions, including Shona's wedding ring, are auctioned off to pay creditors. With only about $2,000 left to their name, the family moves into a one-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the city.

Determined to keep their children at their private school, Shona and RV take several odd jobs; RV attempts to abandon the family dog, Bruno, to ease the burden on them. Bruno is returned by Harry, who offers RV his taxi license; he rejects it due to Harry's continued employment with the Speeding Saddles but eventually accepts it. Shona later gets a job as an events pianist and runs into Shubho, who offers the family assistance, but she rejects it after he insults RV. Princess overhears RV and Shona fighting and learns of their financial trouble. She tells Champ and the pair decide to secretly save their lunch money to help their parents. This results in Champ eating waste food from the garbage.

RV gets a passenger who asks for a speedy airport arrival; using it as a chance to test his racing skills, RV initially does well but falters after suffering flashbacks of his accident. In a last-ditch attempt to pay their school fees (and throw a birthday party for Champ), RV lies to his friends and fellow cab drivers saying Princess has pneumonia, prompting them to pool a fund for her medical expenses.

Shona finds out that RV lied to his friends about Princess having pneumonia and gets enraged at RV. However, Champ suddenly falls unconscious and begins bleeding from his mouth. The family rushes him to the hospital and then RV and Shona learn the truth that Princess and Champ have been saving their lunch money to help the financial issue, where they find out Champ has a piece of glass in his stomach, and surgery to remove it would cost $65,000. After Billy rebuffs his plea for help, Harry offers RV the chance to make their team and get back into the racing world. RV accepts the offer and his cab driver friends form the pit crew and accept RV's apology for lying to them about Princess having pneumonia. RV encounters Rusty in the race and tempts to come last, but remembering his promise to Shona and his son's condition, he motivates himself to keep going. Just as Rusty tries to shove RV again, this time RV shoves Rusty in the same way Rusty did to RV and finishes Rusty and wins the race.

RV returns to racing full-time, Shona becomes a professional pianist, and the family (including a now healthy Champ) moves back to their original home but sometimes go back to their old place to see their friends. RV then gifts Shona her wedding ring.

==Cast==
* [[Saif Ali Khan]] as Rajveer "RV" Singh, a [[stock car]] racer, Radhika's husband, and Princess and Champ's father
* [[Rani Mukerji]] as Radhika "Shona" Bannerjee, RV's wife and Princess and Champ's mother
* Angelina Idnani as Priya "Princess" Singh, RV and Shona's daughter and Champ's elder sister
* [[Master Ali Haji|Ali Haji]] as Ranveer "Champ" Singh Jr., RV and Shona's son and Princess's younger brother
* [[Jaaved Jaaferi|Javed Jaffrey]] as Harry, RV's best friend, and later manager
* [[Victor Banerjee]] as Shubho Shekhar Rai Banerjee, Radhika's father
* [[Shruti Seth]] as Sasha, Radhika's best friend
* Bharat Dabholkar as Billy Bhatia
* [[Sujoy Ghosh]] as Chatto
* Ronobir Leheri as Pindi
* Ravi Khote as Pandya
* [[Dolly Bindra]] as Mrs. Pandya
* Ken Thompson as Rusty Finkelstein

== Production ==
Production began in May 4, 2006 and lasted till June 26, 2006. The working title was "''Ta Ra Rum Pum Pum''".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ranimukherjee-onweb.org/ta-ra-rum-pum.html |title= Ta Ra Rum Pum |access-date=24 April 2007 |work= Title Changed}}</ref> The film was shot almost entirely in the US, with a few scenes shot at YRF Studios in [[Mumbai]]. Portions were filmed in [[Rockingham, North Carolina]] at the [[Rockingham Speedway]] and at [[West Allis, Wisconsin]] at [[The Milwaukee Mile]]. Ali Haji had to go through 3 auditions and Angelina Idnani was called in for her fourth audition before they were finalised. The plot is combined with that of [[Tom Cruise]]'s ''[[Days of Thunder]]'' (1990) and [[Will Ferrell]]'s ''[[Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]]'' (2006) — the protagonist meets with an accident while racing and then makes a comeback destroying his nemesis race driver – and [[Will Smith]]'s ''[[The Pursuit of Happyness]]'' (2006), where a father and son have to move out of their house, due to the loss of a job.

The cars used in racing scenes were provided by [[Andy Hillenburg]], who purchased [[Rockingham Speedway]] months after its release and provided the stunt drivers, as many [[ARCA Re/Max Series]] drivers participated in the filming (ARCA Re/Max Series stickers can be found on the cars in the movie; Hillenberg trained stunt drivers, along with letting some film stars take turns driving).<ref>[http://www.fasttrackracing.com/gallery/Album3.htm Andy Hillenburg's gallery, which includes ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' stunt driving at Rockingham.]</ref> Some cars that can be seen in ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' display high resemblance to cars specifically created for ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' (except featuring modified sponsorship decals) as Hillenburg provided cars for that film as well.

The title song of ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' is a 4-minute animated endeavour with all the main characters of the film and 4 other animated characters. This song was performed by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Studios]] as part of their 3-film deal with [[Yash Raj Films]].

''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' was released on 27 April 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yash Raj Films |url=http://www.yashrajfilms.com}}.</ref>

== Music ==
The music of ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' was composed by the duo [[Vishal–Shekhar]] and [[Javed Akhtar]] penned the lyrics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindigeetmala.net/movie/ta_ra_rum_pum.htm|title = Ta Ra Rum Pum : Lyrics and video of Songs from the Movie Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)}}</ref> The soundtrack of the film contains 7 songs. According to the Indian trade website ''[[Box Office India]]'', with around 10,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifteenth highest-selling.<ref>{{cite web|title=Music Hits 2000–2009 (Figures in Units)|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=286&catName=MjAwMC0yMDA5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624132928/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=286&catName=MjAwMC0yMDA5|archive-date=24 June 2010|publisher=[[Box Office India]]}}</ref>

{{Infobox album
| name = Ta Ra Rum Pum
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Vishal–Shekhar]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 3 April 2007
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Feature film soundtrack]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| length = 28:44
| label = YRF Music
| producer = [[Siddharth Anand]]
| prev_title = [[Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.]]
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title = [[Om Shanti Om]]
| next_year = 2007
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer(s)
|-
| "Ab To Forever"
|[[KK (singer)|K.K.]], [[Vishal Dadlani]], [[Shreya Ghoshal]]
|-
| "Hey Shona"
| [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]
|-
| "Ta Ra Rum Pum" Ver. 1
| Shreya Ghoshal
|-
| "Nachle Ve"
| [[Sonu Nigam]], [[Sowmya Raoh]]
|-
|"Ta Ra Rum Pum" (Happy)
| Shaan, [[Mahalakshmi Iyer]], Sneha, Shravan
|-
| "Saiyaan Ve"
| Vishal Dadlani
|-
| "Ta Ra Rum Pum" Ver. 2
| Shreya Ghoshal
|}

=== Telugu soundtrack ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Song !! Singer(s)
|-
| "Ta Ra Rum Pum" (Happy)|| rowspan="2" |[[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], [[Mahalakshmi Iyer]]
|-
|"Hey Shona"
|-
|"Chinduley"||[[Vedala Hemachandra]], [[Gayatri Ganjawala]]
|-
|"Ta Ra Ra Ra Tara" (Female)
|[[Shreya Ghoshal]]
|-
|"Natho Forever"
|[[Shankar Mahadevan]], Shreya Ghoshal, [[Vishal Dadlani]]
|-
|"Vinukora"
|Vedala Hemachandra
|}

== Response ==

===Box office===
''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' opened to an average response in cinemas, where collections were reported to be as low as 50%. However, the film saw a good opening of 90%-95% in the big cities such as [[Mumbai]] and [[Delhi]], catering to the kids and family audiences; the smaller cinemas received an average response of 50%–70%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibosnetwork.com/|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum Box Office Report|access-date=2 May 2007 |work=ibosnetwork.com}}</ref> Though the film opened to an average response, the next two days saw a huge jump in collections. The collections dropped on Monday by about 55%–70%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibosnetwork.com/|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum Box Office Report|access-date=1 January 2007 |work=ibosnetwork.com}}</ref> In its first week, the film collected an impressive Rs. 43.7 million in Mumbai,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiafm.com/trade/domestic_boxoffice/index.html |title=Impressive First Week |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=indiafm.com}}</ref> and did well at the multiplexes but moderately at the single screens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiafm.com/trade/top5/index.html|title=Does Great Business in the Multiplexes|access-date=15 June 2007|work=indiafm.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208021918/http://www.indiafm.com/trade/top5/index.html|archive-date=8 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The overall gross for the first week in India stands at Rs. 114,392,260.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiafm.com/movies/boxoffice/12897/index.html|title= Overall Gross: First Week|access-date=15 June 2007 |work=indiafm.com}}</ref> The release of ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' caused a drop in collections, but the film has continued to do well in Mumbai and Delhi.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiafm.com/trade/top5/index.html |title=Spider-Man 3 Interrupts! |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=indiafm.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208021918/http://www.indiafm.com/trade/top5/index.html |archive-date=8 February 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' became the 10th highest-grossing film of 2007 so far, with box office figures of Rs. 362.0 million.

The three main markets overseas – the UK, USA and Australia – saw a similar opening. ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' collected during the weekend and debuted at #9 on the UK film chart which was a good opening.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/index.html |title=Ta Ra Rum Pum overseas report |access-date=1 January 2007 |work=indiafm.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624184323/http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/index.html |archive-date=24 June 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In the United States, the film collected $425,102 which was a fair opening. In Australia, it collected $90,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/index.html|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum overseas report|access-date=1 January 2007|work=indiafm.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624184323/http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/index.html|archive-date=24 June 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Though the weekend figures were good, the collections were below expectations for a [[Yash Raj Films|Yash Raj film]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glamsham.com/movies/scoops/07/may/02_yatra_ta_ra_rum_pum_guru_namastey_london.asp |title=Ta Ra Rum Pum box below expectations|access-date=1 January 2007 |work=glamsham.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2007/apr/30box.htm|title=Review of first week collections|access-date=1 January 2007|work=specials.rediff.com}}</ref> The film was given an above-average status in the United States and was a hit in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibosnetwork.com/|title=Semi-Hit!|access-date=15 June 2007 |work=ibosnetwork.com}}</ref>

In its sixth week, the film had collected Rs. 377.0 million and was declared a hit in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/Super-hit|title=in India}}</ref> Overseas, the film has collected $2,000,000 in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://in.movies.yahoo.com/070426/128/6f172.html | title=Hit in India! |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=in.movies.yahoo.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070601035418/http://in.movies.yahoo.com/070426/128/6f172.html  |archive-date = 1 June 2007}}</ref>

=== Reception ===
On ''[[Rotten Tomatoes]]'', the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 8 critics reviews.<ref>{{Citation|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ta_ra_rum_pum|language=en|access-date=2021-06-28}}</ref>

[[Taran Adarsh]] of ''Indiafm.com'' gave ''Ta Ra Rum Pum'' a rating of 3.5 out of 5. He praised the performances of Khan and Mukerji, saying "Khan is extremely likable. He conveys the varied emotions with complete understanding. Mukerji enacts the role of the mother proficiently".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiafm.com/movies/review/12897/index.html|title=Ta Ra Rum Pum review from Indiafm.com|access-date=1 January 2007 |work=indiafm.com}}</ref>

It is inspired by ''Days of Thunder'' (1990) and ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' (2006), though film critic [[Rajeev Masand]] pointed out that "the plot has been borrowed generously from films such as ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' (1997), ''[[In America (film)|In America]]'' (2002) and ''[[Cinderella Man]]'' (2005)."<ref>[https://www.rajeevmasand.com/uncategorized/masands-verdict-tara-rum-pum/ "Masand’s Verdict: Tara Rum Pum"]</ref>

== Awards ==

===Sabsey Favourite Kaun Awards===
* Won – Sabsey Favourite Heroine – Rani Mukerji

== See also ==
* [[List of films set in New York City]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.yashrajfilms.com/microsites/TRRP/microflash.html Official movie page]
* {{IMDb title|0833553|Ta Ra Rum Pum}}

{{Siddharth Anand}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Siddharth Anand]]
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