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 |
| Release date(s) | 27 November 2009 |
| Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | Rs. 149 crore (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.
As with most Priyadarshan films, it is known to be one of the most confusing Bollywood movies ever, with the huge star cast and all the characters running 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 (Akshay Kumar) and Ram (Suniel Shetty) are lucky in love, otherwise their life is a big zero as their bank balance. Nitin's employers dog, Mulchand Ji always does wrong things, but the blame is put on Nitin, and he is usually kicked into the pool as a punishment.
Ram works for a courier service in Singapore. He had originally come there to work in Chinese films, but he was not selected. Anjali (Katrina Kaif), is in love with Nitin and Manpreet (Sameera Reddy) is in love with Ram.
They plan to become together and act out kidnapping of Nitin.The drama after this is filled with laughter.
[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)
- 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 (2006 film)|Bhagam Bhag.
[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
| De Dana Dan | |
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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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