Movie Review: Don 2: The King is Back

Shahrukh Khan, also hailed as the 'King Khan' of Bollywood, is back in what's Bollywood's most anticipated sequel to the hit franchise Don. The 2006 film Don: The Chase Begins Again, itself a remake of the 1978 Amitabh Bachchan classic (Don), was as potholed as the city's roads, but went on to make big money and no surprise, the makers, having decided to milk the franchise for what its worth, have assembled another hare-brained plot that's chuckholed the size of craters. D2, when viewed in that sense, is a picturesque travel post-card, if nothing else. SRK, for his part, pulls of the title role with élan. Sporting a cocky attitude and a perpetual roguish grin, he brings with him oodles of charisma that makes this torture of a movie a little bearable. But is that enough? The action heist thriller, for whatever bizarre reasons the makers never make it clear, moves at an unforgivable slow pace with very little edge-of-the-seat moments. I don't want to bore you by giving away any further details, but the long and short of it is that there is every little chance of another sequel on its way. Can it get any worse than this? I wonder...