De dana dan movie reviews movie#
Akshay goes missing for 30 minutes of runtime of the movie because he is locked up in a closet. But the director didn’t use him to fullest because he has to cater to 22 characters in this movie. The rest of the story is all about what happens when all these characters end up in a hotel.Īkshay Kumar is really good. Manpreet’s father sets the marriage of Manpreet with the son of Harbans. Nitin and Ram conspire to kidnap the dog of the lady industrialist.
Harbans (Paresh Rawal) is a conman who is on the verge of shutting his business down. He has a rich girlfriend Manpreet (Sameera Reddy).
De dana dan movie reviews driver#
Ram (Suneil Shetty) works as a driver to a courier company in Singapore. He has a beautiful and rich girlfriend Anjali (Katrina Kaif). Nitin (Akshay Kumar) is a domestic help for rich industrialist (Archana Puran Singh). The entire story takes place in Singapore. Producer: Ganesh Jain, Girish Jain, Ratan Jain For a comedy, De Dana Dan is considerably long at almost 3 hour runtime and could have been more crisply edited.Banner: Venus Records and Tapes, Eros Entertainment & Baba Arts LimitedĬast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia, Sameera Reddy, Archana Puran Singh The art direction (Sabu Cyril) and SFX (Red Chillies) effects for the deluge sequence in the climax are well executed though it doesn’t contribute much to the film. With a major part of the film being shot inside the hotel, the camerawork isn’t much demanding and K Ahambaram does well as the cinematographer. Salim-Sulaiman’s background score is loud and at several instances overshadows the dialogues. Pritam’s music is quite outdated this time and every song is forced into the narrative. Unfortunately for a comedy, the dialogues are pretty lame with not sufficient punches or one-liners. Undoubtedly the humour is loud and noisy but this slapstick is appended with some story (Suresh Krishanan). In fact the other character artists add more value to the film varying from the deafening ones (Archana Puran Singh, Manoj Joshi) to the hilarious ones (Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani). What could have been the USP of the film, acts against it with the comic chemistry of Akshay-Paresh-Sunil clearly missing. The less you try to join the links, the more it binds you. The more you attempt to keep a track of the individual tracks, the more it confuses you. The second half gains momentum with cross-connections of characters inside the hotel. The film takes time to kick-off and nothing much happens in the first half.
But a flood is induced in the climax as the director seeks inspiration from another Hollywood flick ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974) with each character going down the drain.Īs the name suggests, De Dana Dan is a quickie flick which is hastily written, rapidly filmed, has swift storytelling and speeding characters giving you no time to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb react or relate. With a seemingly lost Sunil Shetty and a screeching loud Paresh Rawal, it’s left up to the character artists to save the ship. A comedy of errors ensues with characters doing Bhagam Bhag throughout the hotel.Ĭall it a ‘wardrobe’ disaster but Akshay Kumar is locked in one for practically an hour of the film’s runtime.
Soon the story takes the shape of the 1992 Hollywood flick ‘Blame it on the Bellboy’ which was remade in Bollywood just a year ago as ‘One Two Three’ (and also starred Sunil Shetty and Sameera Reddy). Just this time the duo kidnaps a canine and you wonder if the film is going to the dogs.Īs you try to keep a count on the ever-increasing character artists, the entire cast checks-in a five star hotel. Money is the need of the hour and so Priyadarshan does some hera pheri in the story – which means a kidnap. Though both have already assigned girlfriends (Katrina, Sameera) for them, the film still takes too long to come to point. Nitin Bankar (Akshay Kumar) is a driver under debt and Ram Mishra (Sunil Shetty) is a courier boy who hasn’t delivered much in life. Except of course for the trademark Priyadarshan style chaotic climax where again their chemistry is diluted (literally through flooding fuss) as the entire cast joins them for more commotion. Forget the threesome chemistry, there is hardly a single frame in the film where the trio of Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal share screen space. Going by its casting, do not expect De Dana Dan to be a sequel, tribute or extension of the Hera Pheri series. De Dana Dan also almost marks a decade of the widespread acceptability that the slapstick genre has gained in scarcity of sane comedies. De Dana Dan almost marks a decade of the end of the sensitivity and sensibility of director Priyadarshan who switched on to commercially driven comedy capers post the success of Hera Pheri.
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