review - Don 2

Warning: Die-hard fans of SRK, advisable to skip this review!
Don 2 suffers from the curse of the sequel:ironic, since the original ‘Don’ itself was not the asli stuff, being a remake of Big B-ka-‘Don’!

Yet, the original, un-original SRK, Farhan Akhtar venture worked & how; very cool, contemporary, with unexpected twists & a wicked ending!
Oh yes, if you are hungry, go for “Don 2” armed with some fresh bread; SRK hams so royally, plenty of meat there for a sandwich & more! In the Shahrukh Khan school of acting, to portray a devilishly bad hero, all you need, is a snarl on your face & a strange rasp of the voice, which I suspect, was inspired by the “Agneepath” voice of Big B!
The old ‘Agneepath’ reminds me of the hero of the new & reloaded version, Hrithik Roshan; He is the surprise factor, wearing a mask ostensibly, a la Mission Impossible! Now here’s where you realize that Farhan Akhtar has taken on too many acting & singing assignments, which are taking their toll on his role as a director! So the Hrithik Roshan we see, for a delightful few minutes, is supposed to be the shorter & minus those biceps SRK, but even if you allow for Bollywood madness, how do you explain, that the masked SRK also talks like Hrithik Roshan?!
Aha, the clash of the Ms World v/s Ms Universe – Priyanka & Lara!!! Priyanka is the legit heroine of the film, but looks dull, washed out & sure she is a police officer, but yeh hindi phillum hai, so some unrealistic glamour would have helped!

Mrs. Bhupathi, yaaney-ki- apni- Lara, on the other hand, plays molly & dolly to Don effortlessly – she probably has, as many scenes as Priyanka, but to escape the humiliation of playing second fiddle to Ms World, Ms Universe takes the escape route, by having her act listed as a ‘special appearance’ … hmmmm!!!
Don sets his sights on a bank in Berlin – there is a convoluted plot of blackmail, storming the bank, shades of ‘Die Hard’ & no, Don doesn’t want money, but the plates which print the money …. yeah, not getting into that – if u must know, go see the movie yourself!
Did I mention our friendly, neighborhood hacker – enter Kunal Kapoor of Rang-de-Basanti fame?! Hez cute, has a phoren, pregnant wife (why we had to know that, I dunno?) & is a jack-of-all trades, as only found in hindi films!
Jab we almost hit the climax, Farhan Akhtar succumbs to the stereotype – so out of the blues, Don joins hands with the cops, helps flush out the bad guys (so does that make him good, bad or what???!) & even manages an instant, two minute, Magi noodles like romance, with Priyanka!!! Et tu, Farhan?
Music – totally forgettable & nothing to write home about!
‘Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahin, naamumkin hai’ – yeah, wish I hadn’t caught him!