De Dana Dan directed by Priyadarshan is a loud film. Each and every character in this film seem to be screaming on top of his or her voice. The film has story that has never been heard before and director Priyadarshan has tried to mix-n-match the entire characters and kept the momentum alive for the next 2.45 hours.
Nitin Bankar (Akshay Kumar) is a personal butler, cook, driver, watchman, gardener to a wealthy female industrialist (Archana Puran Singh) in Singapore. Like any young man, Nitin too, dreams of a better life, but misfortune is his constant companion and his reality is his job under Archana. He desperately wants to become rich and marry the love of his life, Anjali Kakkad (Katrina Kaif), who supports him financially.
Ram Mishra (Suneil Shetty), Nitin's best friend also came to Singapore with the dream of striking it rich, but ended up a courier delivery man. He falls for Manpreet Oberoi (Sameera Reddy), but her high society parents will never approve of marriage, not unless Ram has lots and lots of money.
In an attempt to get rich quick and marry them, both Ram and Nitin devise a plan to kidnap Archana's pet possession, her doggy Mulchand. But their kidnapping plan goes awry and leads to many misunderstandings. To add more chaos, Manpreet's wedding preparations to a shady businessman Chaddha's (Paresh Rawal) son begins in the same hotel where Nitin and Ram are hiding after their kidnapping fiasco.
Confusion and misunderstandings multiply ten fold when a contract killer, Kala (Johnny Lever), his underworld don boss Maamu (Asrani), Anjali, Anjali's father (Tinnu Anand), Indian Ambassador (Vikram Gokhale), a bar dancer (Neha Dhupia) and Policeman (Sharat Saxena) too land up in the same hotel. What happens after Nitin accidentally gets locked in Chaddha's hotel room cup board is what the rest of the film all about.
Acting wise, Akshay Kumar is in top form. Suniel Shetty is supportive. He is timing with Akshay is superb. Paresh Rawal is not so impressive this time. Johny Lever and Rajpal Yadav are brilliant. Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Tinnu Anand and Sharat Saxena lend good support.
On the whole, De Dana Dan is fair work by Priyadarshan but it can not be compared to Hera Pheri or Phir Hera Pheri. It is not better than those films. Otherwise it is a one time watch movie.
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