Nitin is in love with Anjali (Kartina), a rich man’s (Tinu Anand) daughter. 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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