![]() ![]() Slaps and kicks abound in the film-in one scene which is intended to be funny, a man slaps his daughter and wife one after the other. She kicks him into the swimming pool every time he fumbles in his errands or makes a mistake. Nitin (Akshay Kumar) is a battered domestic help to Archana, a shrill, rich woman (Archana Puran Singh) who owns a mall, and her furry dog (Moolchandji). But Priyadarshan chooses the easy way out by doing what he has been doing, badly, for almost a decade now. ![]() If the humour was clever, the story could have been a smart, if farcical, satire. It’s an interesting premise to begin with: nobody is either successful or nice in the conventional sense it’s a universe where money is everything (one of the best things in the film is a song titled Paisa, picturized with Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, with kitschy, imaginative art direction and visuals). Almost everybody in the film is a money-minded profligate (that Shakti Kapoor plays a slimy, lascivious man, a role that he became identified with in the 1980s, is just one of the indications of how regressive this film is). ![]() As in most of his comedies, the lead characters of De Dana Dan are the exact opposites of the conventional hero they are the archetypal losers, seemingly with no hope of redemption. ![]()
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