Dum is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language romantic action comedy film directed by A. Venkatesh.

Venkatesh was keen to cast Kiran Rathod, but later selected Rakshita, who appeared in all three versions of the film.

The filming was held at Chennai and Bangalore while the songs were shot at Japan, China, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Thailand.

[6] Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote makers made masala by fooling fans without caring about logic while panning the lead hero's character design calling it wrong heroism and concluded saying it does not matter if cinema does not do good to the society, there is no need to do bad things like this.

[7] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote the film had "a racy screenplay, a fast-paced narration, non-stop action that leaves no room for lagging moments.