Review of DON 2 – The King is Back

DON2 The King is backDON 2  stars the jodi  of  Shahrukh Khan   and Priyanka Chopra along with Lara Dutta, Ompuri and Boman Irani.It has been directed by Farhan Akhtar who also directed the first DON starring Shahrukh.

The Story

SRK (the DON) has been living in Thailand for last 5 years carrying out his Business of Drugs. However, he considered a thorn-in -bush by the European drug sellers because he sells Drugs at very low prices affecting their Business

The European Drug Sellers plot to kill DON. While taking the delivery of  a new supply of Drugs, DON is attacked surprisely, but he somehow manages to escape. (The DON has some other plans now. He plans to uproot the regime of European Drug dealers)

DON moves to his old den Kualalumpur where   Malik(Om Puri ) is retiring after solving 186 cases. His biggest regret was not having caught DON. Roma (PC) has also joined Interpol and was working with  Malik. DON makes a sudden appearance before  them. He asks Malik to withdraw all cases against him in return of  the information about International Drug Market. The deal is not made DON is sent to jail, where he meets his old rival Vardhan. . He escapes with Vardhan from the jail after poisoning all inmates. (Actually this plot was to meet Vardhan. Vardhan holds one key of the locker containing a tape which could be used to blackmail Diwan, the Vice President of Deutsche Zurich Bank in Berlin. The other key was with DON).

Don shows  Diwan the  footage of the tape and blackmails s him for the access codes used to lay hands on the plates necessary to print currency notes in Germany.  He plans to smuggle the plates out of the bank, print currency notes and become a billionaire. Even if new and different plates would be made by the authorities, he is sure that it would be impractical and impossible to make the existing currency notes useless.

Diwan plays cross and hires Jabbar to kill DON, but again here is our DON, who takes Jabbar on his side. Diwan is forced to give him the access codes. Now the major plot of Bank Robbery begins. DON, Vardhan, Jabbar, Sameer Ali (A computer hacker) and Ayesha (Sameer’s GF) togeher plan the entry into Deutsche Zurich Bank in. Once they get access to plates, Vardhan and Jabbar play the cross and ask him to handover the plates in return of life. Poor DON has no choice. Another cross is played by Sameer, who calls police and gets DON arrested.

Meanwhile, Malik and Roma are also in Berlin to question Diwan on the suspect that he had links with drug traffickers. Unable to enter the bank and free the hostages, the police are forced to make a deal with Don to get back into the bank in exchange for immunity. Don and Roma manage to reach Vardhaan , but Roma is shot Vardhan and gets injured.Then there is heavy fight and DON manages to defeat them and come out. He gets his immunity papers.

DON has to hand over the plates back to Diwan. But, once Diwan gets into his car it explodes and all the plates are destroyed. Actually DON detonates the bomb after handing over the fake plates to him.  DON also hands over a disc to police containing the list of all his associates, but it turns out to be the list of all European Drug Cartel. They are arrested and DON becomes the king of European Drug World.

Casts

  • Shahrukh Khan as Don
  • Priyanka Chopra as Roma
  • Lara Dutta as Ayesha
  • Kunal Kapoor as Sameer Ali
  • Om Puri as Malik
  • Boman Irani as Vardhaan
  • Aly Khan as J.K. Diwan
  • Nawwab Shah as Jabar
  • Sahil Shroff as Arjun
  • Florian Lukas as Jens Berkel

Stunts

The movie shows Shahrukh  performing some of the dangerous stunts himself. In one of the scenes he jumps from 300 ft height.  All stunts have been performed under the guidance of  International Stunt Director Wolfgang Stegemann. The movie becomes special for these stunts

Locations

The movie has primiarily been shot at Berlin while parts of it has also been shot at India,  Malaysia and Switzerland. Prominent places in Berlin where it has been shot include Brandenburg Gate, the Olympia Stadium, The Gandarmen Market and the East Side Gallery.

Budget

The Budget of the movie is almost Rs 75 Crores.

 

Music

The  music has been composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy has has received favourable recommendations from critics. The  theme song of ‘Main Hoon Don’  is carried forward with similar sounding title track ‘Zara Dil ko Thaam Lo’.

Rating

The whole movie can be given 4.5 Stars.