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Venus Records and Tapes
Eros Entertainment
Baba Arts Limited Production

Status
Released 

Color
C

Release Date
November 27, 2009

Language
Hindi 

Genre
Comedy 

Shooting Studios
Filmcity
Mehboob Studio

Producer
Ganesh Jain
Girish Jain
Ratan Jain

Executive Producer / Co-Producer
Sanchita Chatterjee
Sunil A. Lulla

Director
Priyadarshan

Star Cast
Akshay Kumar...... Nitin Bankar
Katrina Kaif...... Anjali Kakkad
Sunil Shetty...... Ram Mishra
Paresh Rawal...... Harbans Chadda
Neha Dhupia...... Anu Chopra
Sameera Reddy...... Manpreet Oberoi
Archana Puran Singh...... Archana
Aditi Govitrikar...... Pammi Chadda
Asrani...... Maamu
Chunky Pandey...... Nonny
Johny Lever...... Kala Krishna Murari
Manoj Joshi...... Brij Mohan Oberoi
Rajpal Yadav...... Dagdu
Supriya Karnik...... Mrs. Paramjeet Lamba
Tinu Anand...... Kakkad
Vikram Gokhale...... Paramjeet Lamba
Sharat Saxena...... Inspector wilson pereira
Shakti Kapoor...... Moosa Hirapurwala / Suber
Ratan Jain

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Singers
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Suzanne D'Mello
Rdb
Javed Ali
Mika Singh
Style Bhai
Dominique Cerejo
Sunidhi Chauhan
Ad Boys

Lyricist
Sayeed Qadri
Rdb
Ashiesh Pandit
Irshad Kamil
Sameer

Music Director
Pritam Chakraborty
Rdb
Ad Boys

Background Music
Salim Merchant
Sulaiman Merchant

Choreography
Ganesh Acharya
Pony Verma
Prasanna

Action
Gurubachan Singh

Art
Sabu Cyril

Editor
Arun Kumar

Screenplay
Priyadarshan

Sound
Rishi Oberoi

Costume
Shabina Khan
Rocky S
Navin Shetty
V. Sai Babu
Kalpana Jain

Media Relations
Spice

Publicity Designs
Himanshu Nanda
Rahul Nanda

Story / Writer
Suresh Krissna

De Dana Dan is an out and out comic entertainer due to which one doesn't quite expect a musical here. Of course Akshay Kumar-Pritam 'jodi' in the past has given chartbuster tracks in comedies like Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Singh Is Kinng earlier. Still, these films had a romantic angle to them which resulted in memorable music not just by means of item numbers but also a few soulful songs. However, when it comes to De Dana Dan, all one expects are some more Hera Pheri moments, courtesy the coming together of Akshay Kumar, Suneil Shetty, Paresh Rawal and Priyadarshan.

There is a very pleasant surprise in store though at the very beginning of the album with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan coming up with an extremely likeable 'Rishte Naate'. A beautiful love song which is set in a mould similar to that of 'Teri Ore' [Singh Is Kinng], 'Rishte Naate' is also elevated further due to some very good writing by Sayeed Quadri. The combination works perfectly well with English rendition by Suzanne Demello being an icing on the cake. The song's remix makes for a good club outing as well with Kunal Ganjawala replacing Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for this version and still giving a good account of himself. It is surprising that such a beautiful sounding track is being released so late in the day when the film is a mere 20 days away from release.