DON- The Chase Begins

Well in my opinion DON(1978) was new beginning of Indian cinema, arguably one the best commercial movies ever made in India. It's story, acting, suspense, thrills, background score everything was unique and marvelous and then their was Amitabh as DON. Nobody can have his screen presence or aura as DON. So, when I heard Farhan akhtar is making Don’s remake, I was quite skeptical. I said nobody can make Don’s remake, it will be just disaster. But I wished farhan proves me wrong, since his last two movie Dil chahta hai and lakshya are one of my favorite movies of all time.

Don – II, starts with SRK’s chilling, bit stylish performance as DON, including DON ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi, namumkin hai dialogue. Rest of story is almost same. DON kills his enemies with style and cold blooded ways. ACP DeSilva catches dons and kills him, Replacing Vijay as DON. Roma joining Don’s gang to take revenge for killing of his brother ramesh. Jasjit in quest of fining his missing son.In mean time De-silva gets killed in encounter, making things complicated for vijay. Who now has to prove his innocence to police and save himself from DON’s enemies as well as friends. But in movie there are minor twist and turn which will keep you glued to your seats.

The Movie’s biggest strength is Farhan Akhtar, his direction, his writing and his treatment to movie of the best movie in Indian cinema in all time. SRK has done fine job as DON, specially when he had comparison with BIG B himself, nice decent job. But he wasn’t as ease as vijay, a simple bihari chap.

Priyanka chopra looked lovely,beautiful, sensuous and dangerous all at one time. Her portrayal of Roma was in my opinion better than one of zeenat aman. I never found zeenat as good actress.Priyanka is surely future of bollywood, next superstar. Isha Koppikar had virtually no role in the movie.

Boman Irani is marvelous as ACP Desilva, he did complete justice to role given to him. Om puri as Interpol Agent Malik is just wasted. I expected more screen presence of him. Rest of cast was fine, they just did their part. Arun rampal as jasjit had nothing to do, Pran’s character was just to large for him to follow. Farhan should have avoided taking Kareena Kapoor as kamini, she totally screwed the legendary song pictured on Helen, with her idiotic dance routine. Urmila might be better choice than her.

Well I would advice you to go a watch DON-II atleast once, it’s a good entertaining bollywood masala movie. But Amitabh Bachchan is still the original DON for us.