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De Dana Dan 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Priyadarshan Produced by Ganesh Jain
Girish Jain
Ratan JainScreenplay by Priyadarshan Story by Suresh Krissna Starring Akshay Kumar
Suniel Shetty
Paresh Rawal
Katrina Kaif
Sameera ReddyMusic by Pritam
RDB
Ad BoysCinematography N. K. Ekambaram Editing by Arun Kumar Distributed by Venus Records & Tapes
Eros Entertainment
Baba Arts Limited ProductionRelease date(s) 27 November 2009 Running time 172 minutes Country India Language Hindi Box office Rs. 49 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.
Contents
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 (as he must be called) 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.
Harbans Chadda (Paresh Rawal), is a flop businessman, but acts to be great. He has a son, Nonney Chadda (Chunky), who is as useless as his father. An Inspector, Mr. Wilson Pereira (Sharat Saxena) is trying to arrest Harbans for his bounced cheques. Anjali's father, Kakkad (Tinu Anand) signs a deal with Harbans and decide to get Nonney and Anjali married to each other. Later, when Harbans is in a casino, he sees Mr. Oberoi (Manoj Joshi). Someone tells Harbans that Oberoi is one of the richest Indians in Singapore. Harbans lies to Oberoi to get Nonney married to Oberoi's daughter, who turns out to be Manpreet.
Afterwards, both Anjali and Manpreet demand money from Nitin and Ram respectively and tell them that their marriage has been fixed with someone else. After hearing this, Nitin tries to commit suicide on a street, by coming in the way of a car. Luckily, the car brakes hard and saves Nitin. But actually, that car is Ram's courier car. Then they tell each other that their girlfriends are getting married. To get some ransom, they kidnap Moolchand the dog. But while driving the van, the trunk opens and Moolchand runs back. This makes the cops think that Nitin has been kidnapped. On reaching the hotel, Nitin calls Anjali and tells her about their plan. She comes rushing to the hotel. When they come to know that the dog has run away, they decide to order a dead body from Mamu (Asrani), a Mafia Don. They plan to throw the dead body on the railway tracks along with Nitin's driving licence and spead the rumour that the kidnapper has killed Nitin.
Later, when Kakkad finds out that Harbans has fixed his son's marriage with someone else, he threatens Harbans that he will break the marriage. He also finds out that his daughter has run away and that her credit card was last charged at particular hotel, and goes there, as he did not want Anjali to get married to Nitin. Meanwhile, Nitin had ordered the dead body from Mamu stands outside the hotel with an orchid flower in his hand (as told by Mamu) to receive it. At the same time, Kakkad reaches there. Nitin, worried, begins to run. He tries to open many doors, and while trying to open a particular door, drops the orchid flower which was in his hand. He runs into the neighbouring room, as the door was open, and hides under the bed.
Kakkad sees the flower which was in Nitin's hand just outside the door of a room. Believing that Nitin is in that room, he rings the bell once or twice, and then attempts to kick open the door. At the same time, Paramjeet Singh Lamba, the one staying in that room, opens the door. He gets kicked on his chest badly, and falls on the floor. Kakkad holds his collar, and asks him where she is. Paramjeet Singh replies that she is in the bathroom. Kakkad runs into the bathroom, hoping for Anjali to be there. But instead, Kamini Lamba, Paramjeet's wife, is in the bathroom. She pushes him out of the bathroom and then Kakkad runs out of the room. Paramjeet then reports to the hotel staff about this incident.
After some time, Nitin tries to escape out of the room, but Harbans opens the door at the same time, while talking on the phone. Nitin tries to go under the bed again, but as he tries from the other side this time and bangs his head on some luggage kept under the bed. Seeing nowhere else to go, Nitin hides into the wardrobe. Harbans, irritated with calls that he is getting, throws his phone into the wardrobe, and locks it. Therefore, Nitin get stuck in a wardrobe.
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
- Shakti Kapoor as Moosa Heerapurwala / Suber
- 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.
Production
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.
Release
Box office
De Dana Dan collected Rs. 23 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 34.19 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. 49 crore from India. The film was declared an "Above Average" 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]
Home media
The film was released on a one disc dual layer format DVD. Its running time is 167 minutes.
Soundtrack
De Dana Dan 
Soundtrack album Released November 2, 2009 Genre Feature film soundtrack Length 51:21 Label Venus Records & Tapes No. Title Lyrics Music Artist(s) Length 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. "O Jaana" Sameer Ad Boys Ad Boys 4:06 12. "Paisa Paisa" (Club Mix) Manak-E, RDB, Selina RDB Manak-E, RDB, Selina 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.
External links
Hindi films directed by Priyadarshan Muskurahat (1992) · Gardish (1993) · Saat Rang Ke Sapne (1997) · Virasat (1998) · Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1998) · Kabhi Na Kabhi (1998) · Hera Pheri (2000) · Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar (2001) · Satyaghat: Crime Never Pays (2003) · Hungama (2003) · Hulchul (2004) · Garam Masala (2005) · Kyon Ki (2005) · Chup Chup Ke (2006) · Malamaal Weekly (2006) · Bhagam Bhag (2006) · Dhol (2007) · Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) · Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008) · Billu (2008) · De Dana Dan (2009) · Khatta Meetha (2010) · Aakrosh (2010)Categories:- 2009 films
- Indian films
- Hindi-language films
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