Dada Dhamaka out: Balakrishna sings, Nargis Fakhri dances in Thaman’s club number

Nandamuri Balakrishna has stepped up to the microphone again. Dada Dhamaka, the first song from his action drama Dada, came out on Friday evening, 13 November, and he is one of its two credited singers, alongside Rajani Sree Poornima.

The lyrical video went up on the film’s music label channel, Zee Music South, at about 7.50 pm IST and runs 4 minutes 9 seconds. Thaman composed the track, Ramajogayya Sastry wrote the lyrics and Sekhar VJ choreographed it. By early Saturday the video had passed 5 lakh views and about 20,000 likes.

The number is staged on a crowded club floor. Balakrishna, in sunglasses and a studded maroon leather jacket, dances at the centre of a large troupe with Nargis Fakhri, dressed in gold. The Bollywood actor is named in the video’s title, and she appeared beside him on the film’s Deepavali poster, which announced the song and its 13 November date.

Back at the microphone

Balakrishna has sung for his own film before. In Puri Jagannadh’s Paisa Vasool, released on 1 September 2017, he recorded Mama Ek Peg La with Divya Divakar to a tune by Anup Rubens.

Dada also brings him back to Gopichand Malineni and Thaman, the director and composer of Veera Simha Reddy, which reached theatres on 12 January 2023. Its first single, Jai Balayya, came out in late November 2022, about seven weeks ahead of the film. Dada Dhamaka has landed 41 days before its own release.

Christmas Eve release

Dada is a Vriddhi Cinemas production backed by Venkata Satish Kilaru, written and directed by Malineni. Kajal Aggarwal, Manchu Manoj, Samuthirakani, Sarath Kumar, Abhimanyu Singh, Upendra Limaye, Manish Wadhwa and Swasika are in the cast. Sai Madhav Burra has written the dialogues and Arvind S Kashyap is the cinematographer.

The song’s credits repeat the release plan: Dada opens in theatres worldwide on Thursday, 24 December. Nagarjuna has fixed the same date for his 100th film, King100.