MISSION: POSSIBLE?
Many film professionals in Mumbai—Shah Rukh Khan included—protest vehemently at the term Bollywood being used to describe the Hindi film industry, because they think it makes them sound like Hollywood wannabes. And then, so many of them—SRK included—keep trying to make Hollywood wannabe films. Which is not to say that sci-fi or action thrillers should not be attempted, but what’s the merit in doing well what Hollywood has already done before and much better?
THE KING IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING
I'd enjoyed watching the 'original' remake of the '70s hit Don five years ago. It had Don and Vijay, Roma and Ramesh, Kamini, Jasjit and DCP D'Silva. The plot, far-fetched though it was, at least had a modicum of logic. A bumbling idiot is picked up by the cops for his resemblance to a dreaded don who's lying unconscious in a hospital and sent off as his replacement to gather information about his shady business. A young woman whose brother has been killed by the same don pretends to love him in order to kill him. Portions of the film were shot abroad, chiefly Malaysia, but it didn't seem out of place (barring the "Khaike paan benaraswala song") and if one felt deeply disappointed by the twist in the end, what preceded that shocker was thoroughly entertaining.
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