De Dana Dan is Trash, Say Movie Critics

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Movie critics in the U.S. and India have found Bollywood trash king Akshay Kumar’s new movie De Dana Dan a piece of trash.

Here’s what a sample of critics had to say on De Dana Dan:

* IBNLive:

At two hours and 40 minutes, it’s a laboriously long, patience-testing exercise in idiocy about some 20-odd characters stuck in a five-star hotel where mistaken identities and misunderstandings result in loud arguments, comic-book action and crude humor.

….carry ear plugs with you, or a Saridon. Or both. A migraine is guaranteed.

* Reuters:

This is entertainment at its lowest level.

* NDTV:

The film gets more tedious as the plot gets more convoluted and by the climax, in which everyone floats around as the hotel gets flooded, I could barely keep my eyes open.

The humour is so labored that I felt like someone was beating me to laugh.

And I finally understood why the credits in many Priyadarshan films say filmed by Priyadarshan instead of directed by Priyadarshan. Because there is little sense that someone is actually directing this circus.

* Rediff:

[A] loud, overlong collection of slapstick subplots that would have nothing in common but for one man.

Priyadarshan, refusing as always to call himself a director — ‘filmed by,’ proclaim his credits — attempts to stitch together this ragtag quilt in his usual style, ending up with a stupidly elaborate monstrosity.

….the film has been a damp squib right from the get go. The flaccid first half never quite recovers….it’s too cruelly long to really help things.

* Times of India:

De Dana Dan  almost marks a decade of the end of the sensitivity and sensibility of director Priyadarshan who switched on to commercially driven comedy capers post the success of  Hera Pheri.

….What could have been the USP of the film, acts against it with the comic chemistry of Akshay-Paresh-Sunil clearly missing….Unfortunately for a comedy, the dialogues are pretty lame with not sufficient punches or one-liners.

* DNA:

De Dana Dan will almost certainly end up giving you a headache. Unless you revel in comedy where every character shrieks and screams, women are spoken of in a degrading manner and loud decibel levels give you a kick, this one’s not for you.

…..De Dana Dan is a new low for comedy as a whole.

* SearchIndia.com:

Of all the Bollywood movies we’ve watched in 2009, De Dana Dan is easily the most boring, sickening, crappy piece of shit.

….The grand get-rich plan of two desperate desis in Singapore Nitin (Akshay Kumar) and Ram (Sunil Shetty) rests on kidnapping the dog belonging to a rich and greedy businesswoman (Archana Puran Singh).

….Director Priyadarshan, who is also responsible for the moronic screenplay, then throws in a bewidering array of characters and side stories to the dog-kidnap tale in a clumsy, hopeless attempt at salvaging this junk.

….[I]n the complete absence of comic scenes or hilarious dialogs, the end result of this dismal ensemble is endless tedium for the audience.

Notwithstanding what you may have heard or read, none of the characters or their antics are funny in the least. Just unceasingly boring and tiresome.

….The principal villains of De Dan Dan are the incomprehensibly fatuous story and unendurable screenplay.

Sure, some of the critics have a positive thing or two to say about this piece of trash.

But their bottom line is that De Dana Dan is a piece of junk.

Folks, to waste precious time and money on trash like De Dana Dan is tantamount to pissing away hardearned money.

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9 Responses to "De Dana Dan is Trash, Say Movie Critics"

  1. cajun   November 27, 2009 at 4:13 am

    Guys checkout khalid mohammed review..he has named the movie aptly as comedy on chloroform..

    http://passionforcinema.com/de-dana-dan-movie-review-comedy-on-chloroform/

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    Read the review in your link.

    Why are we not surprised. 😉

  2. Munda9021   November 28, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    YO ….. ADMIN you always giving pathetic comments on every single movie including telgu. You brain cells not working or wut? How come I havent read 1 good word by you ever man. You crazy…..

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. You write: you always giving pathetic comments on every single movie including telgu (sic).

    Not true.

    We had nice words to say about Kaminey, All the Best, Halloween, et al.

    2. Here, see this: Some Fine Bollywood & Hollywood Movies

    3. You write: You brain cells not working or wut

    Go, tell that to your old man for siring a dodo like you. 🙁

  3. pld   November 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    whoever is writing reviews for this site needs to be laid off.

    I used to believe this site in the past but now its some india/ bollywood hater (most likely self hater ABCD who cant ft anywhere). any ways please replace this unprofessional person so that your website keeps running.

    I would recommend hire a normal desi who believes in himself and his country and also believes in US. Someone is suffering from a BIG complex.

    PLease replace this “critic”. I want to come back to this site. I will need to tell my large circle of friends how ridiculous this site has become. Fire this person please.

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. You write: whoever is writing reviews for this site needs to be laid off

    We couldn’t agree with you more.

    2. You write: I want to come back to this site. I will need to tell my large circle of friends how ridiculous this site has become. Fire this person please

    It’s been on our mind too for some time to fire the movie reviewer.

    Yours was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. Thank you so much for helping us to crystallize our thoughts and move forward with this decision.

    We were dilly-dallying on the decision and your timely and candid comment helped us to make a clean break.

    BTW, there will be no more movie reviews here until we get a new reviewer on board.

    Please do inform your ‘large circle of friends’ of this development.

    3. You write: I would recommend hire a normal desi who believes in himself

    Do let us know us if you come across any competent, ‘normal’ desi movie reviewer in the NJ/NY area who can meet the demanding standards of our readers.

    For some reason, the desis in this area seem to think they are the cat’s whiskers.

    4. You write: Someone is suffering from a BIG complex.

    You think so?

    Hopefully, our new reviewer will not be an egocentric, egomaniacal, narcissistic, obnoxious person.

    5. You write: I used to believe this site in the past

    So did we.

    Please do favor us with your presence in future too.

    Once again, thank you so much for your frank and forthright feedback and we sincerely regret any pain these reviews have caused you.

    We rely so much on readers like you to set us on the right path.

  4. amitshetty   November 29, 2009 at 5:13 am

    You do favour for us.

    Stop potraying yourself as cheerleader of Hollywood.

    Here people in India wasted 15 million dollar for seeing Hollywood junk of trash called 2012.

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. You write: You do favour for us.

    Anything for you, sir.

    2. You write: Here people in India wasted 15 million dollar for seeing Hollywood junk of trash called 2012

    Please send us an invoice for $15m so that we may cut you a check. 😉

    BTW, we skipped your ‘Hollywood junk of trash.’

  5. DW-A(1/2)Dr.   November 29, 2009 at 7:06 am

    What was the context of the above comment? If this post was, then the reviewers of IBNlive, DNA, NDTV and the rest needs to be replaced as well or am I expecting logic and reasoning where it isn’t due.

    @SI
    There is a good chance that the person would take you seriously. LOL. My favourite line: Hopefully, our new reviewer will not be an egocentric, egomaniacal, narcissistic, obnoxious person.
    So you think so too, huh? 😉

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. Hey PLD, do you have an answer for DW-A(1/2)Dr.?

    Or you too pussy to respond?

    2. Let’s not irritate PLD…we’re relying on it to suggest a ‘normal desi’ reviewer for this blog.

  6. amitshetty   November 29, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Hello reviewer
    I am seeing you since few months.You are writing down almost every Indian movie.
    I have heard that u find Slumdog Millionnaire great.
    What was great in that movie ?
    It is nothing more than over-exagerrated so-called oscar winning crap.
    Your sentence : “Bollywood is big cesspool”.
    What is Hollywood ? it is also big much bigger cesspool.
    (Transformers 2,2012,Twilight New Moon,Terminator Salvation all piece of craps).

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. You write: I am seeing …I have heard

    You have seen, you have heard but have you ever done? 😉

    2. You write: You are writing down almost every Indian movie

    Not true. We liked Kaminey, Dev D et al.

    3. You write: Slumdog Millionnaire…is…so-called oscar winning crap

    So-called Oscar winning? WTF does that mean?

    Slumdog Millionaire did win eight Oscars. A fact.

    4. You write: Transformers 2,2012,Twilight New Moon,Terminator Salvation all piece of craps

    Hey, we didn’t think much of Terminator Salvation either.

  7. Munda9021   November 29, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Yo Admin……. you seem to be a ABCD who has not value for Indians or per se Bollywood Movies. You aint from Indian nor from America. Boy I pity you!

    Dude you need to get a life. Seems like you need to see a Doctor since you have nothing ever good to say.

    If you liked Kaminey then dude I dont know what to say. Kaimney was horrible. lol

    [Trash Talk]

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    1. You write: If you liked Kaminey then dude I dont know what to say. Kaimney was horrible

    You give no reason for the above statement.

    Or is that you get off by merely disagreeing with us?

    BTW, one of the trashiest movies we’ve seen in recent weeks is De Dana Dan.

    If you haven’t seen De Dana Dan we strongly urge you to stay away from that junk.

    2. You write: you seem to be a ABCD who has not value for Indians or per se Bollywood Movies

    Tis’ true that most movies from Bollywood or their lesser siblings like Kollywood or Tollywood are either trash or stolen.

  8. amitshetty   December 2, 2009 at 7:41 am

    Who cares whether Slumdog win 8 Oscars or 20 ?
    It was not great piece of cinema.It is baap of all trash Bollywood movies.Looks like Danny Boyle is hollywood version of Mahesh Bhatt who likes to over-exagerrate films.

    I commend your fact that hindi films like New York and Kurbaan shows unrealistic America maybe from the eyes of Indian.

    But sincerely Slumdog is much like these above mentioned films showing unrealistic India.

    I would watch city of god over this piece of junk.

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    You write: I would watch city of god over this piece of junk.

    We think both are fine movies.

    Here’s an excerpt from our post on a comparison of the two movies: Cidade de Deus vs Slumdog Millionaire

    Paisa Vasool, Bhai
    After watching these two gritty movies set amidst the slums of Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai, our verdict is that both provide a worthy return on time and money invested.

    Unlike total trash like Villu or Chandni Chowk to China, both Cidade Deus and Slumdog Millionaire are Paisa Vasool enjoyable movies.

    Here comes the big question – Is one better than the other? To us, the answer is a resounding No although others have different opinions.

    De gustibus non est disputandum.

    Cidade de Deus – Superior Acting
    Of course, there are differences between the two movies.

    Overall, you get to see a much better quality of acting in Cidade de Deus.

    In Slumdog Millionaire, the kids are delightful but their older versions Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are embarrassingly mediocre.

    Cidade de Deus is also more realistic fare compared to Slumdog Millionaire, which is heavily influenced by the Bollywood trappings of lasting love, escapist Indian insistence on a happy ending in movies no matter the depressing reality outside the movie hall and wildly fantastic scenes such as that of a young boy jumping into a cesspool for a glimpse of Amitabh Bachchan.

    Whether it’s the violence, the setting, the gangwars or the story-line itself, Cidade de Deus is a far more realistic and plausible account of life in a slum.

    But then there’s greater drama in Slumdog Millionaire.

    Source: SearchIndia.com blog

  9. amitshetty   December 2, 2009 at 7:46 am

    I agree with the fact that Hindi films are really bad nowadays.
    Which are u favourite Hindi comedy films ?

    SearchIndia.com Responds:

    Given the miserable quality of stories and acting, we suppose every Hindi movie is a comedy or at least a caricature of a real movie.

    Of the Bollywood comedies we’ve seen in recent times the only decent ones that come to mind are Hera Pheri, All the Best and No Entry.

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