DE DANA DAN
*ing Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Suneil Shetty, Katrina Kaif & 25 other bufoons
Filmed by Priyadarshan
Against my own personal judgement and inspite of my head telling me to stay away, stay away, STAY AWAY, I made the mistake of going to watch De Dana Dan. This is the new movie ‘filmed’ by Priyadarshan (to use his own words because ‘directed by’ would be saying too much for a movie like this)
Anyway 10 min into the movie you realize the 45+ Suneil Shetty is romancing Sameera Reddy.
12min in and Chunky Pandey (who must surely be nearing 50 coz his skin has acquired the texture of well worn leather) is introduced as the prospective hubby for Katrina Kaif.
You may argue that with a movie like this it is quite mandatory that you leave your brains at the door, but even then…..seriously??? …. Katrina & Chunky Pandey??? REALLY??
The movie also has Akshay Kumar but at this stage that isn’t saying much.
I have a sad feeling that Akshay is slowly going the Govinda way. Some Bad movies became a hit and he did so many of them that he got caught in the rut and never came out.
Anyway, in the movie the Indian Ambassador to Singapore gets kicked in the chest, man-handled by his bro-in-law, solicited by a prostitute and accused of molesting someone’s wife…. and this is supposed to be funny.
And then quite inexplicable the lead actor Akshay (who despite his faults does have some great screen presence) is locked away in a cupboard for almost 40 min of the 2nd half.
And Akshay seems almost happy to be locked away from this awful, awful movie.
I remember reading somewhere that these type of movies are referred to as a ‘home productions’.
In other words you know it is going to be awful but you do it anyway to buy yourself a new house with the money.
Think about it.
Kareena in Mr. & Mrs. Khanna. Amitabh (who just bought a Lamborghini) in Aladin.
Sanjay Dutt in Blue or for that matter Kylie Minogue who agreed to almost sink her career in Blue with that Jiggy-Wiggy song. All home productions (or in Amitabh's case a 'car production').
De Dana Dan has almost 25 characters and if they all had humour as the common bond then this movie would have been a masterpiece. Alas the only thing they have in common (besides some awful, awful acting) is the decibel level they speak in.
Everybody seems to be shouting in the movie. EVERYBODY! And sometimes for no reason at all. I've heard of loud acting but this movie takes the cake.
I don’t know about you but when Neha Dhupia (in a 10 minute appearance ) is by far the sanest character in a movie, it is usually a pretty good sign that the movie is appalling.
And to top it all it is almost 3hours long.
That’s 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back. But you can save yours.
Till next time and maybe another movie (New Moon)….
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Vishal
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