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Movie details
- Original title
- Dabangg
- Release date
- 10 September 2010
- Runtime
- 126 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Hindi
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
- Director
- Abhinav Kashyap
- Writers
- Dilip Shukla, Abhinav Kashyap
- Cast
- Salman Khan as Chulbul Pandey (aka Robin Hood Pandey), Sonakshi Sinha as Rajjo Shreshawat, Sonu Sood as Chedi Singh, Arbaaz Khan as Makkhanchand "Makkhi" Pandey, Dimple Kapadia as Naini Devi, Om Puri as Kasturilal Vishkarma, Vinod Khanna as Prajapati Pandey, Anupam Kher as Dayal Babu, Mahie Gill as Nirmala, Mahesh Manjrekar as Hariya Shreshawat, Tinu Anand as Masterji (Nirmala's father), Murli Sharma as ACP Malik
- Producers
- Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Dhilin Mehta, Malaika Arora
- Production company
- Arbaaz Khan Productions
- Certificate
- UA
Spoiler-free synopsis
Chulbul Pandey is a fearless, rule-bending police inspector in small-town Uttar Pradesh who has never gotten along with his stepfather or half-brother. When he falls for a village girl named Rajjo and squares off against a corrupt local strongman, old family wounds and new dangers collide, forcing Chulbul to confront the truth about his mother's death and fight to protect the people he loves.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.Dabangg can support family discussion about responsibility, empathy, relationships and the consequences of important choices. Where its researched action, comedy, crime, drama framing establishes conflict, ambition, romance, family pressure or social issues, viewers can consider how characters respond and whether their decisions respect other people. The guide avoids inventing specific moral lessons when source material is limited, while still highlighting constructive themes that parents can explore after viewing.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Reliable scene-level advisory material for Dabangg is not complete enough to claim that any unmentioned concern is absent. Families should therefore watch for action violence or threatening situations, romantic or relationship material, stronger language or insults, alcohol, smoking or drug references, along with unhealthy relationship behaviour, aggression, insulting language, substance use or emotional distress where the story context introduces them. The estimated severities reflect verified genre and production evidence plus a conservative older-film baseline, not a substitute for direct scene-by-scene review.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Parents and children can discuss how Dabangg presents respect, responsibility, family expectations, friendship or romance, and whether harmful behaviour is challenged or normalised. They can compare the consequences of major character decisions, identify scenes that felt uncomfortable, and talk about how social attitudes in a 2010 film may differ from current expectations. It is also useful to explain why an editorial age recommendation can differ from a retained Indian CBFC classification.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
For Dabangg, the suggested editorial minimum is about age 14 before applying any higher floor required by a retained Indian CBFC category. Children below that age should ideally watch only after a parent reviews the film or a more detailed advisory. Teenagers are more likely to be comfortable when the stored certificate allows it, while shared family viewing is preferable near the threshold. The strongest concerns are action violence or threatening situations, romantic or relationship material, stronger language or insults, alcohol, smoking or drug references, together with uncertainty where scene-level evidence remains incomplete.
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