De Dana Dan is a Hindi comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. This film is mostly inspired by the American Comedy "Screwed" released in 2000. The film has a huge star cast which includes Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Katrina Kaif in lead roles. The supporting actors include Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia and Sameera Reddy.
Filming began on 1 December 2008 at Mehboob studios in Mumbai. A major part of the film was shot in Singapore. An article in Slate Magazine describes the shooting of a flood scene in Goregaon studios with locally hired white people. The film was released on 27 November 2009.
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 2006s Phir Hera Pheri, although Rawal and Shetty appeared in Priyadarshans Chup Chup Ke and Hulchul
Nitin [Akshay] and Ram [Suniel] are lucky in love, otherwise their life is a big zero as their bank balance. Moolchand always does wrong things, but the blame is put on Nitin.
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], is in love with Nitin and Manpreet [Sameera] 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 [Sharad Saxena] is trying to arrest Harbans for his bounced cheques. Anjalis father, Kakkad [Tinu Anand] signs a deal with Harbans. Later, Harbans and Kakkad decide to get Nonney and Anjali married to each other. Later, when Harbans was 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 Oberois daughter, who turns out to be Manpreet.
Afterwards, both Anjali and Manpreet demand money from Nitin and Ram 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. Unluckily, the car brakes hard and saves Nitin. But actually, that car is Rams 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 away back to Kuljeet Kaur. This makes the cops think that Nitin has been kidnapped.
Soundtrack
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Filming
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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. The film took 80 days to complete.
Box office
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De Dana Dan collected 6.25 Crore nett on its opening day at the box-office. On Saturday day it collected 8.50 Crore nett and on Sunday it collected 8.25 Crore nett, making it an opening weekend of 23 Crore nett making it the ninth biggest opening weekend of all time. It collected 34.12 Crore nett in its first week. In its second week the film crashed collecting 10 Crore nett. It added another 5 Crore nett to end its run at 49 Crore nett from India and was declared as an Above Average in India.
Meanwhile, it did very well overseas debuting at No. 9 position in U.K collecting £ 3,08,029 [approx. Rs. 2.34 crores] 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 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.
Overseas, it was declared as an average grosser.
Dvd release
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The film was released on a one disc DVD. The running time is 162 minutes. It is on a dual layer format.
Track list
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| Track | Song | Artist[s] | Composer | Lyricist
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|---|
| 01
| Rishte Naate [U & I]
| Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Suzanne DMello
| Pritam
| Sayeed Quadri
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4:42
| 02
| Paisa paisa
| Manak-E, Rhythm Dhol Bass, Selina
| Rhythm Dhol Bass
| Manak-E, Rhythm Dhol Bass, Selina
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3:54
| 03
| Aa Gale Lag Ja
| Javed Ali, Ban Jyotsna
| Pritam
| Ashish Pandit
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4:12
| 04
| Baamulaiza
| Mika Singh, Domnique Cerejo, Style Bhai
| Pritam
| Irshad Kamil
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4:50
| 05
| Hotty Naughty
| Sunidhi Chauhan
| Pritam
| Neeraj Shridhar
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3:38
| 06
| Rishte Naate [U & I] [Remix]
| Kunal Ganjawala, Suzanne DMello
| Pritam [Remixed by - DJ MEET"S]
| Sayeed Quadri
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4:25
| 07
| Baamulaiza [Ragga Mix]
| Pritam, Mika Singh, Domnique Cerejo, Style Bhai
| Pritam
| Irshad Kamil
|
5:17
| 08
| Aa Gale Lag Ja [Version 2]
| Javed Ali, Ban Jyotsna, Domnique Cerejo
| Pritam
| Ashish Pandit
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4:22
| 09
| Hotty Naughty [Remix]
| Kalpana Patwari
| Pritam [Remixed by - DJ Akhil Talreja]
| Neeraj Shridhar
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3:46
| 10
| Baamulaiza [Remix]
| Mika Singh, Domnique Cerejo, Style Bhai
| Pritam [Remixed by - DJ Chetas & DJ Nyk]
| Irshad Kamil
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4:24
| 11
| O Jaana
| Ad Boys
| Ad Boys
| Sameer
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4:06
| 12
| Paisa [Club Mix]
| Manak-E, RDB, Selina
| RDB [Remixed by - DJ A.Myth]
| Manak-E, RDB,
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