Shah Rukh Khan is a big success all over the world and has all that can be achieved in this materialistic age. What more does he need now? He has planty of award and planty of fame and dough in his accounts. Does he even need to make any effort to do anything now? Perhaps out of love for his millions of fans ready to swoon at the sight of him, he decides to do just another movie. Se we have Don 2 where we get to see SRK in all his natural glory.
And no, since the film is all about SRK, then why bother whether he acts well, or whether the plot, storyline, dialogues and acting of his co-actors is digestible or not? So, we are not bothered about any of those things. We are here to watch SRK pour over us fawning fans his charisma by bucketfulls. We are satiated and turn home declaring how great SRK is!
Farhan Akhtar, Ameet Mehta and Amrish Shah together wrote the script, just making sure that the new sequel has all the traits of looking like a sequel. They made sure and in doing so went overboard. They just took up the old script and made minor changes in it to make sure it can now be legally called a heist film.
The sequel starts off where it ended in the first. Don (Shah Rukh Khan) resurfaces in Malaysia and gets himself arrested so that he can get the convicted Vardhan (Boman Irani) out of jail. Vardhan has keys to a video footage which they use to blackmail a bank vice president (Alyy Khan) to get access to a German bank’s security systems.
In doing this much, Farhan Akhtar throws in some action sequence with Don’s one-man-army in Thailand, a convenient escape from Malaysian prison and some conventional car-chase sequences in Germany. Now that enough time has been spent in the exotic locales all across the globe to satiate the Akhtar, SRK goes on to take the plot forward between his charisma doses to the audience. In the second half hacker (Kunal Kapoor) suddenly appears who has hacked his way into the security systems of the vault and blueprints of the bank building to the minutest details. It is because as per cinematic law no 241, hackers are omniscient as they have access to everything.
Then we have the ladies.
In the end there is some climactic chemistry between Don and his rival, Roma (Priyanka Chopra), though they mercifully keep mushy scenes at bay from the movie. Don displays Bond kind of expertise in all things brainy or brawny. He is coupled with Lara Dutta as his moll, and her role is as inconsequentional as that of Esha Koppikar in the first one.
Boman Irani seems to be underused as the film is busy indulging SRK, and as SRK is busy obsessing over himself and his cheesy dialogues and wisecracks that fail to be wisecracks, being the same in the sequel. Kunal Kapoor plays a forgettable role. Om Puri, Alyy Khan and Nawab Shah are pathetic as they do not veer a iota beyond playing their functional roles. Sahil Shroff was even declared irritating by a reviewer!
The movie is all about the charm of SRK and does not bother with the good v/s evil battle.
The cinematography by Jason West’s cinematography is remarkable but Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s went dead on the creative front and so they decided to have theme-piece from the original as the background score throughout the flick.
There is still promise for more. As the number-plate of Don’s bike reads Don 3, people can be expected to react in two ways. If you are too frustrated with Don 2, you might cringe at the hint of a yet another painful sequel. If you are ready to give them another chance, you might hope Don 3 might salvage the lost respect of Don after all.
No comments:
Post a Comment