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| A still from Don 2 |
One of the first things that hit me when I entered the theater to watch DON 2 was the sloppiness and the pure lack of story line! The second thing while I continued watching the film was, "WHY?"; "Why has the scene been shot that way? Why is Boman Irani behaving like his school teacher has just reprimanded him for not doing his homework? Why did Shahrukh Khan agree to act in this film? Why did Farhan Akhtar make such a film?" Amongst other reasons, probably he wanted to retell Oceans, Mission Impossible, A- Team in his own way, like he wanted to retell the original Don!
I would like to highlight a few of the populous faux pas that I believe the film possessed. Firstly, and rather unfortunately, the story falls short of enthusing me. It seems, and I am reiterating here, a paltry off print of A- Team, with a few situations of Oceans and MI series thrown. Proper scenes were ripped off. Like the stealing of plates part as well as the jump from the building stunt was purely lifted from A- Team (though A- Team was way better in both); the breaking of vault thing was from Oceans 11; so on and so forth.
Aadore Mukherjee's casting lacked tenor. Though this was again due to Farhan's script more than Aadore's ineptitude! There were a few of characters doing nothing in the film. For instance, Priyanka Chopra's sidekick, whose reel name I don't remember and real name I don't care to know. A mannequin could have taken his place- and it wouldn't have made a difference!! Om Puri Ji was given a next to nothing role. The Deutsche Polizei were there only to show that they were infact in Germany! Then there were a few pivotal characters missing. Narang for one was surely missed. So were Don's gang. It needs mention, that Don is THE CZAR, el capitan!! So its obvious and to a certain extent obligatory for him to have a troop, his regiment with him. That is how his aura, his enigma should have been personified on screen. But Farhan took this element out entirely! Instead, he presumed that the pre- created demeanor of Don would continue in this film. He was sorely mistaken.
One more thing that was hard to swallow was the complete absence of reasoning and cogitation with respect to the series of events. For instance, why is it that Malik and Roma are heading the Malaysian Interpol? Or why are they leading the German police and not following them? Why was Jabbar so eager to kill DON (a globally feared criminal- this again sucks out a part of Don's suavity)? Again, its amusing to see Boman Irani aka Vardhan to dancing to Don's tunes with minimal explanation as to why Don wants Vardhan on his side and ridiculous to watch Roma being so gullible that a few irrelevant words here and there made her cockle and tousle.
Farhan's direction skills seem to have nosedived. Probably the multiplicity of roles that he is playing these days is taking a toll on his direction. But there seems no other explanation as to why he was not able to do justice and give meaningful roles to 4-5 people when he has handled not less than 8 people so gracefully in Dil Chahta Hai. It was after all, only a heist job or a con job which is much below the cadre of DON! All he ended up doing was rob Don of his charisma (Don actually had a catwalk, can you believe that!). He only seemed interested in making a film which was nothing but an aggregation of obscure dialogues, smart locations and some lame stunts.
There surely are the expected supporters who mandate that Don has taken action in the Hindi Film Industry to another level. Further its a conspicuous step towards bringing the west in our heartland. This may be true to a certain extent. But what needs to be remembered is that the west is not going to step in our world just for our action sequences (which are mimeographs of the west). Unless we have good scripts packed with fortitude and tenacity, the west shall remain in the west!!! Until then, Don 2 ko dekhna mushkil hi nahi namumkin hai!!
Hopefully we are treated to a better spectacle and fervent efforts hereon from Farhan.
This is the Sciolist, with no intention of being calumnious!
Signing Out!!!
Aadore Mukherjee's casting lacked tenor. Though this was again due to Farhan's script more than Aadore's ineptitude! There were a few of characters doing nothing in the film. For instance, Priyanka Chopra's sidekick, whose reel name I don't remember and real name I don't care to know. A mannequin could have taken his place- and it wouldn't have made a difference!! Om Puri Ji was given a next to nothing role. The Deutsche Polizei were there only to show that they were infact in Germany! Then there were a few pivotal characters missing. Narang for one was surely missed. So were Don's gang. It needs mention, that Don is THE CZAR, el capitan!! So its obvious and to a certain extent obligatory for him to have a troop, his regiment with him. That is how his aura, his enigma should have been personified on screen. But Farhan took this element out entirely! Instead, he presumed that the pre- created demeanor of Don would continue in this film. He was sorely mistaken.
One more thing that was hard to swallow was the complete absence of reasoning and cogitation with respect to the series of events. For instance, why is it that Malik and Roma are heading the Malaysian Interpol? Or why are they leading the German police and not following them? Why was Jabbar so eager to kill DON (a globally feared criminal- this again sucks out a part of Don's suavity)? Again, its amusing to see Boman Irani aka Vardhan to dancing to Don's tunes with minimal explanation as to why Don wants Vardhan on his side and ridiculous to watch Roma being so gullible that a few irrelevant words here and there made her cockle and tousle.
Farhan's direction skills seem to have nosedived. Probably the multiplicity of roles that he is playing these days is taking a toll on his direction. But there seems no other explanation as to why he was not able to do justice and give meaningful roles to 4-5 people when he has handled not less than 8 people so gracefully in Dil Chahta Hai. It was after all, only a heist job or a con job which is much below the cadre of DON! All he ended up doing was rob Don of his charisma (Don actually had a catwalk, can you believe that!). He only seemed interested in making a film which was nothing but an aggregation of obscure dialogues, smart locations and some lame stunts.
There surely are the expected supporters who mandate that Don has taken action in the Hindi Film Industry to another level. Further its a conspicuous step towards bringing the west in our heartland. This may be true to a certain extent. But what needs to be remembered is that the west is not going to step in our world just for our action sequences (which are mimeographs of the west). Unless we have good scripts packed with fortitude and tenacity, the west shall remain in the west!!! Until then, Don 2 ko dekhna mushkil hi nahi namumkin hai!!
Hopefully we are treated to a better spectacle and fervent efforts hereon from Farhan.
This is the Sciolist, with no intention of being calumnious!
Signing Out!!!
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