What is Dishoom?
1.
"Dishoom" is the old sound effect used when someone would punch someone else(<i>a la</i> "pow!" or "bam!" or "sock!") in old Bollywood movies. Splendidly appropriated by Badmash's Flash parody of the 2004 Presidential debate.
"Who wants some dishoom?"
2.
The main sound effect for any violent scene in
*Man shoots other man*
DISHOOM!
*Man punches other man*
DISHOOM DISHOOM
*Man falls down stairs*
DISHOOMDISHOOMDISHOOMDISHOOMDISHOOM...
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3.
the exagerated sound of a gun shot in Bollywood movies. It's the common anamanapia (sp?) associated with a bullet flying through the air. DISHOOM!
In Sholay, when Amitabh keeps making gun fingers and saying "Dishoom, Dishoom!"
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