# Bumm Bumm Bole
**Bumm Bumm Bole** is a 2010 Hindi-language children's drama film directed by [Priyadarshan](https://www.edgepedia.org/priyadarshan), starring [Darsheel Safary](https://www.edgepedia.org/darsheel-safary), Atul Kulkarni, and [Rituparna Sengupta](https://www.edgepedia.org/rituparna-sengupta), and released in India on 14 May 2010[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/). It is an authorized remake of the Iranian film *Children of Heaven* (1997) directed by Majid Majidi, and it follows two impoverished siblings who share a single pair of shoes after the elder brother loses the younger sister's only pair[2](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-now-lawfully-producing-remakes/story-eCZ1hPc9Zfiw6gN8ojBFGJ_amp.html) • [3](https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/movie/bumm-bumm-bole).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | 14 May 2010 (India), Hindi language, U certificate[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/) |
| Director | Priyadarshan (with Mukesh Kumar also credited as director on IMDb)[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/) |
| Source | Official remake of Majid Majidi's *Children of Heaven* (1997); rights bought by Percept Picture Company in 2008[2](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-now-lawfully-producing-remakes/story-eCZ1hPc9Zfiw6gN8ojBFGJ_amp.html) |
| Lead cast | Darsheel Safary as Pinu (Pinaki), Ziyah Vastani as Rimzim, Atul Kulkarni as Khogiram, Rituparna Sengupta as Kalyani[4](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/bumm-bumm-bole) |
| Runtime | 2h 4m (124 min) per IMDb and JustWatch; other listings give 125 min, 2h 35m, or 1h 55m[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/) • [5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771251442) • [7](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/bumm-bumm-bole/movie-review/5926673.cms) |
| Box office | Box Office India classifies it as a disaster: 325 screens, total nett gross ₹9,755,000 against a budget of ₹70,000,000[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928) |
| Audience rating | IMDb 6.5/10 from about 1.2K votes[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/ratings/) |
## Spoilers
### Story
The film is set in a terror-affected tea-plantation region. Khogiram ([Atul Kulkarni](https://www.edgepedia.org/atul-kulkarni)) and his wife Kalyani (Rituparna Sengupta) are plantation workers living hand to mouth, but Khogiram sends his children Pinu (Darsheel Safary) and Rimzim (Ziyah Vastani) to a respectable school because he wants them to have the education he missed[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928). The family cannot afford school uniforms and shoes, and things worsen when Pinu misplaces Rimzim's only pair of shoes at a vegetable shop[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928).
Rather than tell their parents, the siblings work out a scheme to share one pair of shoes: Rimzim wears them to her morning school, then passes them to Pinu for his afternoon school, and Pinu repeatedly gets into trouble while waiting for her[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928) • [9](https://bollymints.com/movies/bumm-bumm-bole-2010). Pinu then learns of an inter-school marathon in which one of the prizes is a pair of shoes, and he enters to win them for his sister[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928). Around this central plot, the adaptation adds material of its own: the father is fired after a confrontation with a plantation manager who tries to molest Kalyani, and he is later detained and interrogated by an inspector who suspects him of murder and of terrorist connections[10](https://www.ratingraph.com/movies/bumm-bumm-bole-ratings-155586/).
## Adaptation of Children of Heaven
*Bumm Bumm Bole* is a licensed adaptation rather than an unofficial copy. Percept Picture Company bought the rights to [Majid Majidi](https://www.edgepedia.org/majid-majidi)'s *Children of Heaven* under a legal agreement signed in 2008 between Reza Tashakkori, head of international affairs of Majidi Productions, and the company, covering adaptation on the Indian screen in Hindi[2](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-now-lawfully-producing-remakes/story-eCZ1hPc9Zfiw6gN8ojBFGJ_amp.html). Shailendra Singh, joint managing director of Percept Picture Company, said the company wanted to take full legal responsibility for the adaptation, not merely acknowledge the original scriptwriter[2](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-now-lawfully-producing-remakes/story-eCZ1hPc9Zfiw6gN8ojBFGJ_amp.html). [The Indian Express](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-indian-express) review noted that the film credits the original on screen and retains entire scenes from it faithfully[11](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/bumm-bumm-bole/).
## Production and setting
The film was shot in the tea gardens of Ooty, Tamil Nadu, which stand in for the insurgency-affected terrain of Assam[7](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/bumm-bumm-bole/movie-review/5926673.cms) • [1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/). Cinematographer Alagappan, a National Award winner with more than forty films over a thirty-year career, shot the film, his first Hindi picture and his first with Priyadarshan[12](https://www.rediff.com/movies/report/cinematographer-alagappan-on-bum-bum-bole/20100513.htm). The title track was written by Irfan Siddiqui, composed by Azaan Sami, and performed by Shaan[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/). Production companies were Percept Picture Company and the [Sanjay Ghodawat Group](https://www.edgepedia.org/sanjay-ghodawat-group), with Shailendra Singh as producer[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771251442).
## Reception and box office
Critical response was mixed. The Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5, calling it watchable family fare and praising Priyadarshan's shift away from his usual comedies, while noting that he captured the warmth of Majidi's original only partially[7](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/bumm-bumm-bole/movie-review/5926673.cms). Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave it 2 out of 5, writing that the film sparks only in patches, with a script that allows too many loose moments and an unnecessary item number; she also criticized the added material involving terrorists, cops, shoot-outs, and a leering plantation manager[11](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/bumm-bumm-bole/). Bollywood Hungama's critic rating was 1.5, while its small sample of eight user ratings averaged 2.5 out of 5[13](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bumm-bumm-bole/user-reviews/). On Rotten Tomatoes the film had no reviews on the Tomatometer and fewer than 50 audience ratings[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771251442).
Commercially the film underperformed. Box Office India lists it as a disaster: it opened on 325 screens with a first day of ₹2,000,000 and a first weekend of ₹67,00,000, finishing with a total nett gross of ₹9,755,000 against a budget of ₹7,00,00,000, on about 145,000 footfalls[5](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928). A separate daily breakdown records ₹97.5 million (₹9.75 crore) gross over its first fourteen days, starting at ₹14.5 million (₹1.45 crore) on day one and falling to ₹700,000 (₹0.07 crore) by day fourteen[14](https://moneywood.in/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2025/11/movie-4495-bumm-bumm-bole-1764155410.pdf). IMDb lists a worldwide gross of $302,507[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/).
## Legacy
The film has retained an audience afterlife disproportionate to its theatrical run. Its IMDb rating stands at 6.5/10 from about 1.2K votes[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/ratings/), and it streams in India on Amazon Prime Video, ShemarooMe, and VI movies and tv[4](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/bumm-bumm-bole). Viewer reviews frequently describe it as nostalgic and praise the performances of the two child leads, Safary and Vastani, who had appeared together in *Taare Zameen Par* (2007)[15](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/bumm-bumm-bole/reviews/) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771251442). The film has also been used in education: a [Bachelor of Education](https://www.edgepedia.org/bachelor-of-education) curriculum framework lists it among suitable films for student film reviews, and an academic study of childhood in Bollywood cinema analyzes it alongside *Taare Zameen Par* through the structural phases of setup, conflict, and resolution[16](https://iltrajkot.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IITE-Curriculum-Framework-B-Ed-2-Years.pdf) • [17](https://www.egitimyayinevi.com/u/egitimyayinevi/docs/k/a/kapakli-9786256613928-ekitap-iletisim-ve-egitim-arastirmalari-2023-communication-education-research-2023-1704791652.pdf).
## References
1. [Bumm Bumm Bole (2010), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/)
2. [Bollywood now lawfully producing remakes, Hindustan Times (24 May 2010)](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood-now-lawfully-producing-remakes/story-eCZ1hPc9Zfiw6gN8ojBFGJ_amp.html)
3. [Bumm Bumm Bole (2010), Indian Film History](https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/movie/bumm-bumm-bole)
4. [Bumm Bumm Bole streaming: where to watch online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/in/movie/bumm-bumm-bole)
5. [Bumm Bumm Bole, Box Office India](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie-story.php?movieid=928)
6. [Bumm Bumm Bole, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771251442)
7. [Bumm Bumm Bole Movie Review {3/5}, Times of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/bumm-bumm-bole/movie-review/5926673.cms)
8. [Bumm Bumm Bole (2010) Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629241/ratings/)
9. [Bumm Bumm Bole (2010), Bollymints](https://bollymints.com/movies/bumm-bumm-bole-2010)
10. [Bumm Bumm Bole ratings, Rating Graph](https://www.ratingraph.com/movies/bumm-bumm-bole-ratings-155586/)
11. [Bumm Bumm Bole review, The Indian Express (14 May 2010)](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/bumm-bumm-bole/)
12. [Making Bum Bum Bole visually beautiful, Rediff.com (13 May 2010)](https://www.rediff.com/movies/report/cinematographer-alagappan-on-bum-bum-bole/20100513.htm)
13. [Bumm Bumm Bole user reviews, Bollywood Hungama](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bumm-bumm-bole/user-reviews/)
14. [Bumm Bumm Bole box office report, Moneywood](https://moneywood.in/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2025/11/movie-4495-bumm-bumm-bole-1764155410.pdf)
15. [Reviews of Bumm Bumm Bole (2010), Letterboxd](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/bumm-bumm-bole/reviews/)
16. [IITE Curriculum Framework, Bachelor of Education (2-Year) 2020](https://iltrajkot.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IITE-Curriculum-Framework-B-Ed-2-Years.pdf)
17. [Portrayal of Childhood: Analysis of Children's Representation in Bollywood Cinema Through 'Taare Zameen Per' and 'Bumm Bumm Bole', Musa Khan](https://www.egitimyayinevi.com/u/egitimyayinevi/docs/k/a/kapakli-9786256613928-ekitap-iletisim-ve-egitim-arastirmalari-2023-communication-education-research-2023-1704791652.pdf)
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