Great divide as unquiet flows the Don
31 October 2006 | Movies, Movie Reviews | No Comments
Farhan the fan fights Farhan the film-maker and the film wins. The 32-year-old director has turned a formula film of good defeats bad into a modern-day neo-noir movie where bad fights bad. And that's good news because the sinister Don was so much more attractive than the paan-chewing Vijay.
The new Don is more of a remix than remake with the scratchy edges smoothened out with grunge grooves and blistering beats. Farhan changes the backdrop and the background and yet manages to keep the original sequences and lines. And it sure needs a gifted writer to execute what his dil chahta hai. First, the wish fulfilments. 1. The invincible Don doesn't die within 30 minutes. 2. The villain is not an innocuous balding bum. 3. There is no forced love story in the middle of a dark thriller. Now, the add-ons. 1. Don meets his nemesis in DCP D'Silva all right, but he is not playing by the law. 2. Roma doesn't learn to fight overnight to take revenge of her brother's death at the hands of Don, but is a natural who doesn't shy away from displaying her dashing skills. 3. And the mother of all twist moments before the end credits makes Don — in Farhan's own words — an "individual entity".
Shah Rukh Khan hasn't danced like this in a long, long time. Sure he knew what he was in for. What he misses in stature, SRK makes up with energy. Look at him move and shake like a man possessed. Saroj Khan's steps are just what the Don ordered — very, very filmi and just what Shah Rukh needed to add his three-bit to it. Udit Narayan does a decent job and the music is mast. Yes, surprise, surprise, the new Khaike is as good as the old one! Full marks to Farhan and Shah Rukh for pulling off the Khaike act. It sure pumps up the volume and gets the foot tapping to the SRK-Priyanka antics. ….read more
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