De Dana Dan
| De Dana Dan | |
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| Directed by | Priyadarshan |
| Produced by | Ganesh Jain Girish Jain Ratan Jain |
| Screenplay by | Priyadarshan |
| Story by | Suresh Krissna |
| Starring | Akshay Kumar Suniel Shetty Paresh Rawal Katrina Kaif Sameera Reddy |
| Music by | Pritam RDB Ad Boys |
| Cinematography | N. K. Ekambaram |
| Editing by | Arun Kumar |
| Distributed by | Venus Records & Tapes Eros Entertainment Baba Arts Limited Production |
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| Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | ‹See Tfd› India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office |  89 crore (US$17.76 million) (India)[1]$1,985,423 (overseas) |
De Dana Dan (Hindi: दे दना दन) is a 2009 Hindi comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. The story is a partial adaptation of Priyadarshan's own Malayalam film Vettam. The film has a huge star cast which includes Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy in lead roles. [2] Filming began on 1 December 2008 at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai.[3][4] [5] The film was released on 27 November 2009.
It has a huge star cast and all the characters run around after each other (causing hilarious scenes and consequences), hence the name De Dana Dan meaning "one after the other", or "helter skelter" in other words.
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[edit] Plot
Nitin Bankar (Akshay Kumar) and Ram Mishra (Suniel Shetty) are lucky in love, otherwise their life is a big zero as their bank balance. Nitin is stuck as a servant cum driver of Kuljeet Kaur (Archana Puran Singh), according to the conditions of a loan which his father had taken to educate Nitin. Kuljeet is the owner of many malls, restaurants, and other places in Singapore, where this whole story is based. Nitin is fed up with Kuljeet's dog, Moolchand Ji, who always puts Nitin into trouble.
Ram works for a courier service in Singapore. He had originally come there to work in Chinese films, but he was not selected. Anjali Kakkad (Katrina Kaif), is in love with Nitin and Manpreet Oberoi (Sameera Reddy) is in love with Ram. Both of their girlfriends are rich, and they put a condition - get money or forget us.
Inspector Wilson Parera (Sharat Saxena) is on the trail of Harbans Chadda (Paresh Rawal) who has nine arrest warrants due to cheque bounces. He is eager to get his son, Nonny Chadda (Chunkey Pandey) married, so that he can get dowry of the wedding and pay of all his debts. He finalizes Nonny's wedding with Anjali, after her father, Kakkad (Tinu Anand), brings up the topic. Later at a casino, meets Mr. Oberoi (Manoj Joshi). After finding out that Oberoi is one of the richest Indians in Singapore, he lies to Oberoi to fix Nonny's wedding with Manpreet, which finally works out. As he didn't inform Kakkad, Kakkad gets really angry with Harbans. To counter Harbans, Kakkad fixes his daughter Anjali's wedding with someone else.
At the same casino where Harbans met Oberoi, Musha Heerapoorwala (Shakti Kapoor), decides to get married to Anu Chopra (Neha Dhupia), a dancer at that casino. After his brother-in-law finds out, he hires a Mafia Don, Maamu (Asrani), to kill Musha. Maamu sends his best assassin, Kaala Krishna Murali (Johnny Lever) to do the job. To hide from his wife, Musha books a room in Pan Pacific Hotel under the name Suber.
To get rid of all problems and earn some money, Nitin and Ram decide to kidnap Moolchand Ji, as that is the only thing 'living' that Kuljeet, the rich lady, loves. But things go wrong - after they reached Pan Pacific Hotel, the place where they decide to stay, they realize that Moolchand Ji has escaped, causing the police to believe that its Nitin who has been kidnapped. Things worsen when Anjali runs away from home and reaches their room. Initially, Kuljeet refuses to pay the ransom to the kidnappers, but after all her customers decide to go on a strike, she agrees to pay the ransom. As Nitin does not want to go back to Kuljeet, they come up with a plan - they decide to get a dead body from Maamu and throw it onto the railway tracks, along with his driving licence, and then spread the news that the kidnappers have killed Nitin.
Harbans' and Oberoi's families come to Pan Pacific Hotel, where the wedding is going to take place. Harbans and Oberoi click a photo to celebrate their families uniting. To give the advance money to Maamu, Nitin waits at the entrance of Pan Pacific, waiting for Maamu's man to come and say the code 'I'm Maamu's man'. But Kakkad arrives at the hotel, and chases Nitin into Harbans' room. Nitin tries to hide under the bed, but there is no place for him. At the same time, Harbans enters his room and to hide from Harbans, Nitin hides inside the wardrobe. Fed up of his calls, Harbans throws his mobile into the wardrobe and locks it, causing Nitin to get stuck in a wardrobe.
Next what happens is De Dana Dan - confusion, mistaken room numbers, mistaken identities. and continuous chases. Kakkad breaks into Paramjeet Singh Lamba's (Vikram Gokhale) room, who is the Indian Ambassador. Harbans mistakes Anu for Anjali, which causes great confusion later. Musha's photo, gets exchanged with Oberoi's photo, so Kaala tries to kill Oberoi. Wilson reaches Harbans' room and searches for Harbans, and opens the wardrobe to find Nitin, and mistakes him as Harbans. In an attempt to kill Oberoi, Kaala ends up falling onto Ram's and Nitin's truck, which they take to pick up the ransom. While picking up the ransom, Nitin gets left behind, and is taken to the hospital, while Ram takes the money and reaches the hotel, and Kaala is assumed to be the kidnapper, as he was on top of the truck. And to top it all, Maamu arrives at the hotel with a dead body that nobody wants. In the end, a bomb enters the water-tank of the hotel, which causes it to burst and make the hotel flood. At the end, Nitin, Anjali, Ram and Manpreet get the money and live happily ever after, even though nobody else is happy.
[edit] Cast
- Akshay Kumar as Nitin Bankar
- Suniel Shetty as Ram Mishra
- Katrina Kaif as Anjali Kakkad
- Sameera Reddy as Manpreet Oberoi
- Paresh Rawal as Harbans Chadda
- Neha Dhupia as Anu Chopra
- Archana Puran Singh as Kuljeet Kaur
- Aditi Gowitrikar as Pammi Chadda
- Asrani as Maamu (DON)
- Chunky Pandey as Nonny Chadda
- Johnny Lever as Kaala Krishna Murari
- Manoj Joshi as Brij Mohan Oberoi (Manpreet's Dad)
- Shakti Kapoor as Musha Heerapoorwala/Suber
- Rajpal Yadav as Dagdu
- Tinnu Anand as Mr. Kakkad (Anjali's Dad)
- Vikram Gokhale as Paramjeet Singh Lamba
- Supriya Karnik as Mrs. Kamini Lamba
- Sharat Saxena as Inspector Wilson Pereira
The film reunites the trio of Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal with Priyadarshan, who directed them in the first Hera Pheri film. This is the first time the trio has acted together since 2006's Phir Hera Pheri, although Rawal and Shetty appeared in Priyadarshan's Chup Chup Ke and Hulchul. and for Kumar and Rawal appeared in also Priyadarshan's Bhagam Bhag and Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
The names of 'Nitin Bankar' and 'Ram Mishra', the characters played by Akshay Kumar and Sunil Shetty respectively, are taken from their respective long-lasting spotboys. Akshay's spotboy is Nitin Bankar, while Sunil's spotboy is Ram Mishra.
[edit] Production
[edit] Filming
The shooting of the film started in December 2008. The film was shot in Singapore, and a major portion was shot in the Pan Pacific Hotel which is in the center of the town. The flood scene in the film, that took 15 days to complete, was shot in Mumbai by creating a set similar to the Pan Pacific Hotel. An article in Slate Magazine describes the shooting of a flood scene in Goregaon studios with locally hired white people.[6] The film took 80 days to complete.
[edit] Release
[edit] Box office
De Dana Dan collected Rs. 53 crore in its opening weekend in India, thus making it the tenth biggest opening weekend of all time at the time of its release.[7] It collected 57.19 crore at the end of its first week. In its second week the film crashed collecting 10 crore nett. It added another 5 crore nett towards the end of its run, bringing the total gross collections to Rs. 149 crore from India. The film was declared an "Super hit" grosser in India.[8]
Meanwhile, it did very well overseas debuting at No. 9 position in the U.K collecting £ 3,08,029 [approx. Rs. 2.34 crore] on 48 screens in its opening weekend, with the per screen average working out to £ 6,417. In the US, it debuted at No. 20 position and collected $ 7,72,377 [approx. Rs. 3.57 crores] on 69 screens in its opening weekend, with the per screen average working out to $ 11,194. In Australia, it debuted at No. 12 position and collected $ 96,597 [approx. Rs. 40.96 lacs] on 14 screens in its opening weekend, with the per screen average working out to $ 6,900. At the end of its run in the U.K it collected £ 5,60,943. At the end of its run in the US it collected $944,979. At the end of its run in Australia it collected $2,00,000.[9]
[edit] Home media
The film was released on a one disc dual layer format DVD. Its running time is 167 minutes.
[edit] Soundtrack
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| Soundtrack album | |
| Released | November 2, 2009 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 51:21 |
| Label | Venus Records & Tapes |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Artist(s) | Length | |
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| 1. | "Rishte Naate (U & I)" | Sayeed Quadri | Pritam | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Suzanne D'Mello | 4:42 | |
| 2. | "Paisa Paisa" | Manak-E, RDB, Selina | RDB | Manak-E, RDB, Selina | 3:54 | |
| 3. | "Gale Lag Ja" | Ashish Pandit | Pritam | Javed Ali, Ban Jyotsna | 4:12 | |
| 4. | "Baamulaiza" | Irshad Kamil | Pritam | Mika Singh, Dominique Cerejo, Style Bhai | 4:50 | |
| 5. | "Hotty Naughty" | Neeraj Shridhar | Pritam | Sunidhi Chauhan | 3:38 | |
| 6. | "Rishte Naate (U & I)" (Remix) | Sayeed Quadri | Pritam | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Suzanne D'Mello | 4:25 | |
| 7. | "Baamulaiza" (Ragga Mix) | Irshad Kamil | Pritam | Mika Singh, Dominique Cerejo, Style Bhai | 5:17 | |
| 8. | "Gale Lag Ja" (Version 2) | Ashish Pandit | Pritam | Javed Ali, Ban Jyotsna | 4:22 | |
| 9. | "Hotty Naughty" (Remix) | Neeraj Shridhar | Pritam | Sunidhi Chauhan | 3:46 | |
| 10. | "Baamulaiza" (Remix) | Irshad Kamil | Pritam | Mika Singh, Dominique Cerejo, Style Bhai | 4:24 | |
| 11. | "De Dana Dan" (O Jaana) | Sameer | Ad Boys | Ad Boys | 4:06 | |
| 12. | "Paisa Paisa" (Club Mix) | Manak-E, RDB, Selina | RDB | Manak-E, RDB, Selina |
[edit] References
- ^ "De Dana Dan: Box Office". Bollywood Trade. http://bollywoodtrade.com/box-office/de-dana-dan/all-gross/1147/. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
- ^ "De Dana Dan: Complete cast and crew details". Filmicafe Media Inc. http://www.filmicafe.com/movie_photo.php?movie_id=917&value=photo. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
- ^ http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2008/11/20/4524/index.html
- ^ http://news.sawf.org/Bollywood/54817.aspx
- ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2208198/
- ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2208198/
- ^ "Top First Weekend Net Grossers". BoxOfficeIndia.com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1656&nCat=news. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
- ^ "Rocket Singh is Dull In International Markets". Boxofficeindia.com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/overdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=1344&nCat=overseas_report. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
- ^ "De Dana Dan". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=dedanadan.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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