De Dana Dan : A Review

Somebody, pleaaasseeee tell Akshay Kumar that his crazy mumbling, bumbling and always tumbling act, that he has already played in a gazillion movies, is getting old. In his latest movie De Dana Dana, he does manage to make us laugh at few places, but we find ourselves laughing more out of the nostalgia factor than this present flick. If you plan to watch this movie, then please take a Disprin with you, because you will surely get a headache.
is, unless you like a movie where every actor screams his or her dialogues, women are degraded to a level that you never expect from a Priyadarshan movie and everybody thinks that hamming is their birth right. 

Priyadarshan has once again teamed up with his favourite bunch of actors, namely Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Sunil Shetty. The same trio created magic in amazingly hilarious Hera Pheri and its sequel. But De Dana Dan is not Hera Pheri and if you are expecting one, don’t watch it.  

This movie will even ruin your memories of that cult comedy where performances and a good story were the foundation that the movie stood on. Here, dialogues like kutti ki pilli (daughter of a bitch), howling actors and a very confused plot, make you wanna pull your hair out.

The story of this “alleged comedy” is not very different from Hera Pheri. Nitin (Akshay Kumar playing the same kind of role that he plays in every comedy) and Ram (Suniel Shetty) need more money so that they can get married to their girlfriends and pay off their debts. Katrina Kaif plays Akshay’s girlfriend and Sameera Reddy plays Suniel’s.

The duo plans to kidnap the dog of Nitin’s owner (Archana Puran Singh) and ask Rs. 1 crore in ransom for it. But the plan (predictably!) goes haywire and the owner and police think that Nitin, instead of the dog, has been kidnapped.

Nitin and Ram, meanwhile, hide in a five star Hotel. Considering that they both are penniless, how they get the money to pay for their stay is not told. Anyway, to add to the confusion, two businessmen (played by Manoj Joshi and Paresh Rawal) arrive in the hotel. And wait! There’s also Johnny Lever playing the hit man who has been hired to kill Shakti Kapoor. Then, there’s Vikram Gokhale playing an Indian Diplomat, a waiter played by Rajpal Yadpal, an officer played by Sharat Saxena, and a bunch of other characters.

There is hardly any story in the movie and as more and more characters are introduced, the movie just turns into a huge bowl of mess. Out of the cast, Suniel Shetty and Johnny Lever have done a good job, but Paresh Rawal has just hammed like that’s what he was getting paid for.

The music of the movie is good, but apart from the item song Paisa Paisa and the melodious Rishte Naate, no other song makes a lasting impression. 

In the end, all we can say is that De Dana Dan could have been better if the team had not tried to recreate Hera Pheri magic!