Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Don 2 is the Bollywood version of Bond

Mumbai: Don 2 is the Bollywood version of Bond: Director Farhan Akhtar brings Bollywood to Berlin. The lead actors of the film Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra along with 70 co-stars have arrived at Berlin to shoot for “Don 2”“Don 2—The Chase Continues” is an action-packed sequel of 2006 blockbuster hit “Don: The Chase Begins Again”.

In the film King Khan makes a come back as “the smartest, smoothest gangster in the Asian drug world … criminal but good-hearted and a heart-breaker”
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King Khan, who was recently chosen by Newsweek magazine among the world’s 50 most important people and also voted Asian Hero by Time revealed that his character in “Don 2” was “very beautiful behind the dark exterior … He’s not a typical gangster.”

At a press conference held in Berlin on Friday, director Farhan Akhtar stated “When I was here, I was very taken by the architecture of the city. It is a city that represented to me a new world.”

He added that producing a film in Berlin was a “great way to showcase this city to an Indian audience”.