De Dana Dead at Box Office, Crashes 85%
Trash King Akshay Kumar’s De Dana Dud at Box Office
Of all the Bollywood movies we’ve watched in 2009, De Dana Dan is easily the most boring, sickening, crappy piece of shit.
Folks, there was not a single moment of respite in the 2 hours and 40-minutes we spent in the dark hall of the AMC Empire theater on 42nd St (near Times Square) in New York City on Wednesday.
$6 down the drain. Total waste of time and money.
Should you dare to bestow the blessings of your time and money on this junk, a painful migraine will be your only reward.
There were all of seven or eight people for the first show (10:25AM) of De Dana Dan at the AMC Empire, the sparse crowd perhaps a reflection of the lack of enthusiasm and zero buzz for this Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Katrina Kaif et al movie.
Given that Akshay Kumar is the unrivalled Trash King of Bollywood these days, the small audience should have been no surprise.
Colossus of Nonsense
From the getgo, De Dana Dan misses no opportunity to lay bare its claim to fame as one of the lowpoints of Bollywood this year.
The grand get-rich plan of two desperate, down at heel 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).
Oh, if you really want to know Nitin is the driver and Man Friday of the greedy businesswoman while Ram is driver for a courier service van.
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.
You have Nitin’s sweetheart Anjali (Katrina Kaif); Ram’s girlfriend Manpreet (Sameera Reddy); a failed, crooked businessman Chaddha Sr (Paresh Rawal); a contract killer Murari (Johnny Lever); a Don (Asrani), a hooker (Neha Dhupia), a hyper-priapic weirdo (Shakti Kapoor) and more.
But in the complete absence of comic scenes or hilarious dialogs, the end result of this dismal ensemble is endless tedium Continue reading »
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