As we get closer to October 2006, the hype around director Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don’ is reaching a crescent. Needless to stress, big comparisons will be drawn when Shah Rukh Khan will reprise the eternal role of Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Don ’. Here we produce a compilation of some of the likely parallels to be drawn the next time King Khan will ‘don’ his charisma on the screens.
Bachchan was at the pinnacle of fame in his career delivering one hit after another in the late seventies when Chandra Barot’s maiden venture Don (1978) released. The film emerged as a runaway hit, lasting over 25 weeks in theatres. The ‘Khaike Paan Banaraswala’ and ‘Main Hoon Don’ songs became quite a rage.
Akhtar’s ‘Don’ has five songs. Of these, two are new compositions while three are altered versions of songs from the original movie. The two songs that have been rearranged and introduced in the new film are Bachchan’s ‘Khaike Paan Banaraswala’ and ‘Yeh Mera Dil’ where Kareena Kapoor would reprise Helen’s sensuous act.
In the original ‘Don’, Bachchan made a cool-dude-boss of a syndicate of gangsters. As he feasted on the glorious appeal of Helen (who at that time was 40 years old) in the spellbinding ‘Yeh Mera Dil Pyaar Ka Deewana’, the sinister magnetism of Bachchan left an enduring impact on the viewers.
Bachchan’s villainous act carried a unique sophistication that didn’t dilute the immense negative energy one associates with someone who is being portrayed as a bad man. And SRK is undoubtedly the biggest superstar of the present generation today and will apparently be the most able foil to play the modern day ‘Don’.
SRK may be known as the champion of romantic roles eternal roles in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ and ‘Veer Zaara ’ but the films that first brought success to him were ‘Baazigar’ and ‘Darr’ in which he was at his fierce best in the portrayal of the anti-hero. With ‘Don’ he will return to plying characters with negative shades.
So how different will Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don ’ be from the 1978 movie starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role? Well, if the word coming from within the cast and crew is to be believed, Akhtar’s ‘Don’ is much spunkier and a lot more stylish in its direction and treatment.
Shah Rukh Khan has self confessedly stated that ‘’Don (1978) is among his most favourite Amitabh films of all time. Farhan Akhtar himself, has long harboured the dream of remaking the film, and the dream is now being realized in the movie starring Priyanka Chopra , Arjun Rampal , Kareena Kapoor and Isha Koppikar besides Shah Rukh Khan himself.
However, Farhan’s film will not be a scene-to-scene adaptation of the original flick by director Chandra Barot. The remake will be a modern, contemporary version in which SRK, as the Don, uses all the state-of-the-art gadgets and technology in pulling off his ‘Don’ antics.
- Indiatimes Movies
Bachchan was at the pinnacle of fame in his career delivering one hit after another in the late seventies when Chandra Barot’s maiden venture Don (1978) released. The film emerged as a runaway hit, lasting over 25 weeks in theatres. The ‘Khaike Paan Banaraswala’ and ‘Main Hoon Don’ songs became quite a rage.
Akhtar’s ‘Don’ has five songs. Of these, two are new compositions while three are altered versions of songs from the original movie. The two songs that have been rearranged and introduced in the new film are Bachchan’s ‘Khaike Paan Banaraswala’ and ‘Yeh Mera Dil’ where Kareena Kapoor would reprise Helen’s sensuous act.
In the original ‘Don’, Bachchan made a cool-dude-boss of a syndicate of gangsters. As he feasted on the glorious appeal of Helen (who at that time was 40 years old) in the spellbinding ‘Yeh Mera Dil Pyaar Ka Deewana’, the sinister magnetism of Bachchan left an enduring impact on the viewers.
Bachchan’s villainous act carried a unique sophistication that didn’t dilute the immense negative energy one associates with someone who is being portrayed as a bad man. And SRK is undoubtedly the biggest superstar of the present generation today and will apparently be the most able foil to play the modern day ‘Don’.
SRK may be known as the champion of romantic roles eternal roles in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ and ‘Veer Zaara ’ but the films that first brought success to him were ‘Baazigar’ and ‘Darr’ in which he was at his fierce best in the portrayal of the anti-hero. With ‘Don’ he will return to plying characters with negative shades.
So how different will Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don ’ be from the 1978 movie starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role? Well, if the word coming from within the cast and crew is to be believed, Akhtar’s ‘Don’ is much spunkier and a lot more stylish in its direction and treatment.
Shah Rukh Khan has self confessedly stated that ‘’Don (1978) is among his most favourite Amitabh films of all time. Farhan Akhtar himself, has long harboured the dream of remaking the film, and the dream is now being realized in the movie starring Priyanka Chopra , Arjun Rampal , Kareena Kapoor and Isha Koppikar besides Shah Rukh Khan himself.
However, Farhan’s film will not be a scene-to-scene adaptation of the original flick by director Chandra Barot. The remake will be a modern, contemporary version in which SRK, as the Don, uses all the state-of-the-art gadgets and technology in pulling off his ‘Don’ antics.
- Indiatimes Movies
